Scholarships and Student Funding

School of History, Classics and Archaeology Doctoral Scholarships

The School is delighted to invite applications from outstanding candidates for its Doctoral Scholarship Award for 2024-25 entry.

Awards

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers the School Doctoral Scholarship across any area of study within the doctoral programme, for studies commencing in 2024-25. The award provides an annual stipend at the UKRI rate (for guidance, in 2023-24 this was £18,622 pro-rata for part-time students) and tuition fees at UK or international rate. Payment will made in equal monthly instalments for maximum of three years, subject to satisfactory performance.

Eligibility

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology is delighted to invite applications from outstanding candidates for this PhD scholarship designed to attract the best and brightest candidates to study in Edinburgh.

The award is open to UK, EU and overseas students, commencing a PhD degree in the academic year 2024-25. This also includes those applying for a distance learning HCA PhD programme. Current PhD students and MScR applicants are not eligible to apply for the School Doctoral Scholarship.

To be considered for a School Doctoral Scholarship, you must:

  • Hold a UK 2.1 or first class honours undergraduate degree (or overseas equivalent) in a relevant field
  • Hold, or successfully achieve before commencing your PhD with us, a relevant masters degree with an overall mark of at least 65%, or its international equivalent.

If you have any queries about identifying a prospective supervisor or your eligibility, please contact our Graduate Officers:

Applying

 

Applications for this scholarship are now closed as the deadline of 1st February 2024 has now passed. 

 

 Frequently Asked Questions

Notification

 All applicants will be notified of the outcome in May 2024.

Useful links

If you have a question which has not been answered above, please email the HCA Postgraduate Research Office (hca-pgr@ed.ac.uk).