Edinburgh College Of Art PhD Scholarship 2026

Edinburgh College of Art has announced its next round of scholarships to applicants for postgraduate programs in five Schools:

• School of Art
• School of Design
• ESALA (Architecture and Landscape Architecture)
• History of Art
• Reid School of Music.

Eligibility criteria:

• Applications for new PhD students (both Home and Overseas fee status) starting in September 2025 are open. This applies to both full-time and part-time study options, including on-campus and PhD by Distance.

Value of the scholarship:

The scholarship covers full tuition fees for three years of full-time or six years of part-time study, including an annual stipend set at the UKRI level for 2025-26 (£19,237 for full-time students, pro rata for part-time).

Selection criteria:

The Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) ranking scheme criteria for AHRC Ph.D. Studentships will be used by the ECA Selection Panel.  The Panels will rank the applications according to the following criteria:

• Qualifications OR relevant professional experience
• Preparedness for research
• Quality of research proposal: context, proposed methodology, originality & innovation – including interdisciplinary research, cogency & importance of project
• Clarity & strength of plans for knowledge exchange, public engagement & impact, including dissemination beyond academia
• Fit between student, project & research environment, including cross-HEI supervision where there is demonstrable benefit for the student/research project