Edinburgh College of Art PhD Scholarships

Our Schools offer a rich and vibrant postgraduate research community with a broad range of academic research interests. ECA is proud of its world-leading research, which stretches across and beyond the disciplines of 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 our postgraduate community, and engage with opportunities to present their work to the wider student and staff body during the period covered by their award.  We offer our postgraduates a range of training and development opportunities appropriate to their programme of study.

Awards

We are offering three ECA PhD Scholarships, for the sum of £16,000 per year for three years full-time study (for part-time see below), open to new PhD students commencing study in September 2019.

Please note: the award is first used towards meeting the tuition fee costs for the successful applicant and for awards where there is any remaining balance this will be paid to the award holder as a stipend.

Eligibility

Applications for full-time and part-time PhD 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.

If wishing to commence a new programme of study in September 2019 you must ensure that you have fully completed and submitted your PhD programme application for admission using the University's online system by no later than 25^th January 2019.

• How to apply for postgraduate study at ECA

Applicants must have submitted their fully completed PhD programme application in order to be considered for the scholarship.

Applying

Applications for this scholarship are no longer being accepted for 2019-2020 as the 1st February deadline has now passed.

Selection Procedure

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

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

This is the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) marking criteria for AHRC PhD Studentships.   For further information on the marking criteria see the SGSAH guidance (pages 39-45) http://www.sgsah.ac.uk/media/media_618071_en.pdf

The ECA Selection Panel will meet in March 2019 to review the scholarship applications.  All scholarship applicants will be contacted with the outcome by late March 2019. The successful applicants will be announced on the ECA website at the start of the 2019-20 academic year. 

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

Contact us

Please contact the ECA Postgraduate Office – ecaresearchdegrees@ed.ac.uk – if you have any questions about the application process. 

If you have an academic enquiry please contact the School Postgraduate Research (PGR) Director for the programme you wish to apply for:

• Architecture & Landscape Architecture - John Lowrey - J.Lowrey@ed.ac.uk
• Art - Florian Hecker - Florian.Hecker@ed.ac.uk
• Design - Dr Glyn Davis - Glyn.Davis@ed.ac.uk
• History of Art - Dr Tom Tolley - tom.tolley@ed.ac.uk
• Music –Prof Raymond MacDonald - Raymond.MacDonald@ed.ac.uk
• ECA Director of Postgraduate Research - Prof Neil Cox - Neil.Cox@ed.ac.uk