Edinburgh College Of Art Scholarships at University of Edinburgh 2024

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 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 that are not supported by a fully completed Ph.D. program application (including references) and not submitted by 17th January 2022  will not be considered for funding.

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

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 2024-25 (£18,622 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 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

Application Deadline: 1st Feb 2024