Edinburgh College of Art PhD Scholarships
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.
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 2020.
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 2020 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 27th January 2020.
Applicants must have submitted their fully completed PhD programme application in order to be considered for the scholarship.
Applying
Eligible applicants should complete an online scholarship application
The scholarship deadline is 23:59 GMT 3rd February 2020.
In order to gain access to the scholarship application system applicants must have applied for admission to the University of Edinburgh. Please note that, following the submission of an application for admission, it can take up to five working days for all system checks to be completed and for access to be granted.
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
When logging in to MyEd, you will need your University User Name and password. If you require assistance, please go to http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-systems/support-guidance
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. We expect our scholarship holders to contribute to the research community within ECA and so we are looking for your thoughts on how you might do this. Please also consider the selection procedure criteria noted below.
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
This is the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) marking criteria for AHRC PhD Studentships. The ECA Selection Panel will meet in March 2020 to review the scholarship applications. All scholarship applicants will be contacted with the outcome by late March 2020. The successful applicants will be announced on the ECA website at the start of the 2020-21 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 Research Team – 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 - Dr Deborah Jackson - Deborah.Jackson@ed.ac.uk
- Design - Dr Nichola Dobson - N.Dobson@ed.ac.uk
- History of Art - Prof Viccy Coltman - viccy.coltman@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