The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) administers three postgraduate awards schemes. HTML AHRC/SGSAH PhD Studentships 2025/26The Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) is comprised of the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highlands & Islands, St Andrews, Stirling, Strathclyde, Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and offers PhD studentships each year. Further details of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities can be found here.2025/26 entries will be the last intake for this funding stream.Award The award will cover the PhD tuition fee and a stipend at the UKRI level for 3.5 years.EligibilityCandidates will normally hold a relevant First Class Honours degree (such as BA, BMus, BSc or LLB) and preferably a similar calibre of Master’s degree.PhD students within the eligible subject areas who are currently in their first year of PhD study (or part time equivalent) are eligible to apply.Awards are available to Home fee applicants and limited awards available for International applicants. Please check the full UKRI eligibility criteria here.To qualify for Home status an applicant must: Be a UK National (meeting residency requirements), or Have settled status, or Have pre-settled status AND meet residency requirement (3 years residency in the UK/EEA/Gibraltar/Switzerland immediately before the start of the PhD.) or Have indefinite leave to enter or remainIn accordance with UKRI and AHRC policy, permissible positive action is being applied to the 2025 SGSAH DTP Open Studentships. For the 2025 competition, SGSAH is making available at least three ring-fenced studentships for applicants from UK Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities. These 3 ring-fenced studentships represent a minimum recruitment, with no maximum. ApplyingStep 1: Apply for a PhD programme at the University of Edinburgh. Each School will have an individual deadline for this funding so please check the School web pages below.Step 2: Complete the SGSAH funding application form and return it to the School by the relevant School deadline.Step 3: The University will select and nominate applicants to go forward to the next stage of the competition.Step 4: Nominated applicant submits the full SGSAH funding application form to the online SGSAH portal in early February 2025. SGSAH release the final funding decisions at the end of April 2025.School of DivinityEdinburgh College of ArtSchool of GeoSciencesSchool of History, Classics and ArchaeologySchool of Literatures, Languages and CulturesSchool of Social and Political Sciences (only where the PhD project relates to an AHRC subject area)School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language SciencesOnline Information SessionThe Dean of Postgraduate Research will be hosting an online information session for prospective SGSAH applicants at 10am-11am BST 15th October 2024. No registration needed and please click on this link to join the sessionhttps://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/1242a098616c4905a1188d6165e60a10Further InformationFor any further queries, please contact usPostgraduate Research Student Office This article was published on 2024-07-29
HTML AHRC/SGSAH PhD Studentships 2025/26The Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) is comprised of the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Highlands & Islands, St Andrews, Stirling, Strathclyde, Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and offers PhD studentships each year. Further details of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities can be found here.2025/26 entries will be the last intake for this funding stream.Award The award will cover the PhD tuition fee and a stipend at the UKRI level for 3.5 years.EligibilityCandidates will normally hold a relevant First Class Honours degree (such as BA, BMus, BSc or LLB) and preferably a similar calibre of Master’s degree.PhD students within the eligible subject areas who are currently in their first year of PhD study (or part time equivalent) are eligible to apply.Awards are available to Home fee applicants and limited awards available for International applicants. Please check the full UKRI eligibility criteria here.To qualify for Home status an applicant must: Be a UK National (meeting residency requirements), or Have settled status, or Have pre-settled status AND meet residency requirement (3 years residency in the UK/EEA/Gibraltar/Switzerland immediately before the start of the PhD.) or Have indefinite leave to enter or remainIn accordance with UKRI and AHRC policy, permissible positive action is being applied to the 2025 SGSAH DTP Open Studentships. For the 2025 competition, SGSAH is making available at least three ring-fenced studentships for applicants from UK Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities. These 3 ring-fenced studentships represent a minimum recruitment, with no maximum. ApplyingStep 1: Apply for a PhD programme at the University of Edinburgh. Each School will have an individual deadline for this funding so please check the School web pages below.Step 2: Complete the SGSAH funding application form and return it to the School by the relevant School deadline.Step 3: The University will select and nominate applicants to go forward to the next stage of the competition.Step 4: Nominated applicant submits the full SGSAH funding application form to the online SGSAH portal in early February 2025. SGSAH release the final funding decisions at the end of April 2025.School of DivinityEdinburgh College of ArtSchool of GeoSciencesSchool of History, Classics and ArchaeologySchool of Literatures, Languages and CulturesSchool of Social and Political Sciences (only where the PhD project relates to an AHRC subject area)School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language SciencesOnline Information SessionThe Dean of Postgraduate Research will be hosting an online information session for prospective SGSAH applicants at 10am-11am BST 15th October 2024. No registration needed and please click on this link to join the sessionhttps://eu.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/1242a098616c4905a1188d6165e60a10Further InformationFor any further queries, please contact usPostgraduate Research Student Office
