Edinburgh College Of Art Scholarships

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

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

Eligibility for Edinburgh College Of Art Scholarships:

• Applications for full-time and part-time Ph.D. study will be considered. Awards made to part-time students, however, will be made pro-rata, therefore £8,000 per year over 6 years of prescribed study.
• Scholarship applications from prospective students which are not supported by a fully completed Ph.D. programme application (including references) and not submitted by 25 January 2018 will not be considered for funding.

Please note: if successful in obtaining funding from the any other University of Edinburgh or Research Council funding sources, recipients of the ECA Ph.D. Scholarship must relinquish their ECA Ph.D. Scholarship.

Number of award(s): 5 scholarships are offered.

Duration of award(s): Scholarships are offered for three years.

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 in relation 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

Note: The ECA Selection Panel will meet in April 2018 to review the scholarship applications. All scholarship applicants will be contacted with the outcome by early May. The successful applicants will be announced on the ECA website at the start of the 2018-19 academic year.