Edinburgh College of Art PhD Scholarship

Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is delighted to announce its next round of scholarships to applicants for PhD research programmes in our five Schools: School of Art; School of Design; ESALA (Architecture and Landscape Architecture); History of Art; and the Reid School of Music.

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.

The scholarship award provides full tuition fees (Home or Overseas level) with an annual stipend for three years full-time or six years part-time study pro rata. The stipend will be set to the UKRI level for 2025-26. The UKRI level for 2024-25 is currently £19,237 for full-time students, or the pro rata equivalent for part-time students.


Applications are open to new PhD students (Home and Overseas fee status) commencing study in September 2025 (full-time and part-time study). On campus and PhD by Distance applicants are eligible to apply.

If wishing to commence a new programme of study in September 2025, 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 20th January 2025.

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


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Applying

The scholarship application deadline is 23:59 (GMT) on Monday 3rd February 2025. 

Applications submitted after this date will not be considered. ECA PhD Scholarship applications should be submitted via the University’s online scholarship application system. 

 

You will not be able to access the online scholarship application form unless you have applied for admission to the University of Edinburgh and have your University username and password.  Please note that, following the submission of an application for admission, it can take approx 5 working days for all system checks to be completed and for access to be granted.

 

When logging into MyEd, you will need your University username and password.  If you require assistance please go to http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-systems/support-guidance

 

The online scholarship application form is located in EUCLID and can be accessed via MyEd our web based information portal at: https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk [ED1]

 

Further guidance on applying for scholarships as a registered student can be found here: Applying for a scholarship through MyEd

 

Please note: 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.  We are looking for evidence on how the PhD programme fits with your career aspirations, how you plan to take best advantage of the opportunities on offer and we are also looking for your thoughts on how you might contribute to the research community within ECA.  Please also consider the selection procedure criteria noted below.

 

Frequently Asked Questions:

Scholarships System FAQs for Applicants (511.17 KB / PDF)

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

  • Qualifications OR relevant professional experience
  • Quality of research proposal, knowledge exchange, public engagement and impact (including academic impact)
  • Preparedness for research
  • Supervisory expertise and research environment
  • Training needs, plans and provision

This is the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) assessment criteria for AHRC SGSAH PhD Studentships.

Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities Assessment criteria 2024 (301.15 KB / PDF)


The ECA Selection Panel will meet in late March 2025 to review the scholarship applications.  All scholarship applicants will be contacted with the outcome by mid-April 2025.

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.


Please contact the ECA Postgraduate Research Team 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:


 

The University reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to amend or withdraw any of the advertised scholarships, without notice.

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