Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Art at the University of Edinburgh 2021

The University of Edinburgh is offering the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) PhD research scholarships in its five Schools covering Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Art, Design, History of Art, and Music. 

Applications are invited for research projects that take advantage of the leading research expertise across the ECA Schools. ECA will aim to provide a supervisory team which will consist of at least two supervisors. Applicants may indicate potential supervisors in their application.  

Scholarship award holders are expected to be energetic members of Edinburgh's postgraduate community and engage with opportunities to present their work to the wider student and staff body during the period covered by their award. Edinburgh offers its postgraduates a range of training and development opportunities appropriate to their program of study.

Scholarship Value:

The University of Edinburgh is offering three ECA PhD Scholarships providing full tuition fees (Home or Overseas level) with an annual stipend of £15,500 per year for three years of full-time study or £7,750 per year for six years of part-time study.

Eligibility:

Applications are open to new PhD students (Home and Overseas fee status) commencing study in September 2021 (full-time and part-time study).

Application Requirements:

Please note that the Personal Statement for your scholarship application should clearly state why you are applying for this scholarship, why you feel your research proposal best fits with subject area expertise, and what benefit the scholarship will have for your research. The university is looking for evidence on how the PhD program fits with your career aspirations, how you plan to take the best advantage of the opportunities on offer. The University of Edinburgh expects its scholarship holders to contribute to the research community within ECA and so they are looking for your thoughts on how you might do this.

Selection Procedure:

The ECA Selection Panel will score the applications in relation to the following marking criteria:

• Qualifications OR relevant professional experience.
• Quality of research proposal.
• Preparedness for research.
• Supervisory expertise and research environment.
• Training needs, plans, and provision.

About the University of Edinburgh:

The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top universities, consistently ranked in the world top 50, and placed 18th in the QS World University Rankings 2019. It offers around 500 undergraduate courses and more than 300 taught master's courses from 150 research areas. One of Britain’s leading research universities, the university is associated with 21 Nobel Prize winners.  

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