School of Philosophy, Psychology, Language Science

This scholarship is awarded for postgraduate Masters study in English and/or Historical Linguistics, within the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences.

This scholarship is awarded for postgraduate Masters study in Psychological Research, within the School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences.

The Centre of African Studies is delighted to announce the Nyerere Scholarship for an applicant to our MSc in Africa and International Development.

The University will offer PhD scholarships for students starting their PhD research at the University in the 2026-2027 academic session.

The College Research Student Awards scheme is designed to attract high quality students applying for PhD research.

This scholarship has been created through the generous bequest of James Forrester to the Philosophy Department of the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.

The scholarship aims to nurture excellence in moral philosophy by supporting a PhD in Philosophy at Edinburgh. The successful applicant will come to Edinburgh to work on a PhD in moral philosophy, broadly construed to include normative and value theory more generally.

This three-year Leverhulme Trust-funded PhD studentship (starting in September 2026) will focus on the interaction between input and uptake in primary school-aged Mandarin-speaking monolingual and heritage bilingual children with and without DLD in China and in the UK. The PhD student will be responsible for developing and administering structural priming experiments in Mandarin, as well as for recruiting and testing neurotypical children and children with DLD in the UK and in China, analysing and writing up results.

The successful PhD candidate will join a vibrant academic PhD community in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (PPLS). Both Linguistics and Psychology, part of PPLS, were ranked 3rd for research excellence according to the latest Research Exercise Framework (REF2021). The applicant will have access to the School’s state-of-the-art research labs, recording studios, and technical support for programming and statistical analysis, as well as to a large research community of developmental linguists and psychologists.