School of Divinity PhD Research Scholarships

The School of Divinity is delighted to invite applications from outstanding candidates for its Doctoral Scholarships Awards for 2024-2025 entry.

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Award

We are offering a number of scholarship awards, which will cover tuition fees and provide a stipend at the UKRI rate.  These awards will be tenable for three academic years, subject to satisfactory progress.

All scholarship award holders are expected to be energetic members of our postgraduate community, and will engage with opportunities to present their work to the wider student and staff body during the period covered by their award.  We offer our postgraduates a range of training and development opportunities appropriate to their programme of study.

Eligibility

The scholarships will be awarded to new applicants who have applied for admission to a PhD degree programme of study in the School of Divinity commencing in September 2025.

Applicants must be of outstanding academic merit and research potential.

Applications will be considered from UK/Overseas applicants wishing to study full-time/part-time/online distance learning programmes.

Criteria

Applicants must be of outstanding academic merit and research potential.

Applying

The scholarship deadline is 23:59 GMT on 3rd February 2025. 

To be considered for this scholarship, applicants must complete the following two steps

  1. Apply for PhD study. You must submit your PhD application with supporting documents.
  2. Submit your scholarship application via the University’s online scholarship application system before 3rd February 2025.

The online scholarship application form is located in EUCLID and can be accessed via MyEd our web based information portal at https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk

When logging in to MyEd, you will need your University User Name and password.  If you require assistance, please go to http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-systems/support-guidance

You will not be able to access the online scholarship application form unless you have applied for admission to the University of Edinburgh and have your university username and password.

Please note that, following the submissions of an application for admission, it can take approx. 5 working days for all system checks to be completed and for access to be granted. For this reason, the application to the PhD programme must be submitted at least 10 working days prior to the scholarship application deadline.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Notification

 All applicants will be notified of the outcome by the end of April 2025. 

Contact Details

Please contact the Postgraduate Research Support Officer (Div.PGRAdmin@ed.ac.uk) if you have any questions about the application process.

Further Information

Please note that applications always exceed the number of awards available. Applicants are advised to apply to other funding agencies in addition to these funds.