Northern Bridge Consortium Doctoral Studentships 2022

Northern Bridge offers over fifty fully-funded doctoral studentships to outstanding applicants across the full range of arts and humanities subjects, including Creative Practice disciplines.

Research areas:

Northern Bridge invites applications in the following subject areas, and strongly encourages interdisciplinary projects encompassing two or more of these: Archaeology, Classics, Creative Writing, Cultural Geography, Cultural Studies, Drama and Theatre Studies, English Language and Literature, Ethnography and Anthropology, Film History, Theory and Criticism, French Studies, German Studies, Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, History, Interpreting and Translation, Italian Studies, Law and Legal Studies, Linguistics, Media and Communication Studies, Museum Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, International Studies (Diplomacy & International Relations), Russian Studies, Theology, Divinity and Religion and Visual Arts, encompassing Art Theory & Aesthetics, and theoretical, historical, critical and practice-based approaches to the following: Fine Art; Digital Arts; Photography; Community Art; Installation Art; Sound Art; Film-/ Time-Based Art; and Architecture.

Eligibility for Northern Bridge Doctoral Studentships: 

• Applicants must be UK citizens or residents of another European Union country. European Union applicants who have not been resident in the UK for the three years prior to the start of their studentship are eligible for a fees-only award from the AHRC.
• Candidate must be applying to commence a programme of doctoral study in the 2022 academic year, which starts in October 2022.
• Applicants who have already commenced their doctoral studies are eligible to apply providing they will have completed no more than 18 months of full-time or 36 months of part-time study by 1 October 2022.

Scholarship value: 

• Payment of tuition fees.
• A maintenance award at the UK Research Councils’ national rate (currently £15,609 per annum).
• A research training support grant (RTSG) to fund the costs of study abroad, conference attendance and fieldwork.
• Financial support to participate in the annual Northern Bridge Autumn Conference, Winter School and Summer School, which include specialist training as well as events focussing on career development and enhancing your employability.
• Financial support for placements, international study visits and the acquisition of the skills necessary for you to complete your Ph.D. to the highest standards.