Department of English Studies
Postgraduate Applicants
Funding
Departmental Scholarships
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New Studentships and Bursaries
The University of Stirling is offering over 50 Postgraduate Research Studentships for students beginning PhD studies in 2010-11.
In order to qualify for consideration, applicants must apply for acceptance as a PhD candidate by 17 March 2010.
The Department of English Studies is pleased to offer 11 postgraduate tuition fee bursaries for students beginning a postgraduate programme (taught or research) in September 2010. All the Department’s postgraduate degrees are included in this scheme (MLitt, MRes, MSc, MPhil and PhD), and all applicants should use the same Postgraduate Bursary Application Form.
The Department particularly welcomes new PhD proposals on topics related to the Department’s own research interests and strengths. Prospective applicants should consult the Departmental website for context, and make their initial enquries regarding a PhD proposal via the Head of Department, Professor John Drakakis (john.drakakis@stir.ac.uk).
Student Eligibility
In order to be considered, you must already have been offered a place on one of our postgraduate programmes (taught or research) by 2 July 2010. If you hold a conditional offer, you are still eligible to apply. Applicants should not already be holding an external funding award for the 2010-11 academic session, but they may of course be in the process of applying for other awards (e.g. AHRC, University Studentships, SORSAS, Carnegie). Applications will be ranked according to academic merit by a departmental awards committee. Award holders will be notified in July-August 2010.
How to Apply
Students applying for entry to either a taught or research postgraduate programme, including the MRes (Humanities), and wishing to be considered for these bursaries, should complete our Departmental Postgraduate Bursary Application Form, and submit it to Alison Scott (Postgraduate Secretary) by 2 July 2010.
Value of the Bursaries
For 2010-11 the Department will award:
- Five £1000 Master’s tuition fee awards for the MLitt, MSc and MRes programmes (available to both Home/EU and O/S students)*
- Two bursaries equivalent to the value of fees for full-time home/EU postgraduate students (available for both taught and research applicants, across all programmes)
- Four £2000 Research tuition fee awards available for MPhil and PhD applicants (available to both Home/EU and O/S students)
All bursary awards will be for one year (academic session 2010/11).
The Departments hopes that the successful Master’s applicants will wish to continue to PhD study within the Department. Bursary students will be given every support in applying for external research funding, including the highly competitive AHRC Studentship scheme.
Submission Deadline
In order to be eligible, you must submit your application for admission to one of our postgraduate programmes in time for it to be fully processed, and an offer (conditional or unconditional) to be made, by 2 July 2010. Ideally your application for admission will have been made much earlier; certainly you should aim to complete it by early June to ensure your eligibility for the bursaries competition.
2 July 2010 is also the deadline to submit your Postgraduate Bursary Application Form to Alison Scott, at the address below.
Alison Scott, Postgraduate Secretary
Department of English Studies, University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Telephone: 01786 467510
Email: alison.scott@stir.ac.uk
NB Applications by email will be accepted. Applications by fax will not.
*Including the Department’s MLitts in English Studies, the Gothic Imagination, Modern Scottish Writing, Postcolonial Studies, Publishing Studies; the MSc in International Publishing Management; the MRes in Humanities. See www.english.stir.ac.uk for details of each programme.
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External Funding
Further details of the main external funding schemes for postgraduates are available at the links below. If you are considering applying to one of these schemes, contact a member of English Studies staff in the first instance, to discuss the preparation and timing of your application.
- AHRC Postgraduate Funding - (Taught Postgraduate and PhD)
Eligibility: Home and EU students.
Details of the 2010 competition (for final-year students, existing postgraduates and prospective postgraduates) are not yet available, but should appear sometime in December. In the meantime, details of last year's competition can be found here under 'Student Competition'. Most of the procedures should remain approximately the same next year. Further details will appear shortly. For further information please contact Dr Scott Hames
- Carnegie Trust - (Taught Postgraduate [Carnegie/Cameron] and PhD [Carnegie/Caledonian])
Eligibility: 'Students attending or accepted for a first degree course at a Scottish University, who were born in Scotland or who have a parent born in Scotland or who have at least three years of secondary education in Scotland'.
- Scotland's Saltire Scholarships - (Taught Postgraduate)
Eligibility: Overseas students from US, Canada, India, China.
- SORSAS [Scottish Overseas Research Student Awards Scheme] - (PhD)
Eligibility: Overseas students.
Eligibility: UK-resident students pursuing a course of study 'associated with printing, bookbinding, paper conservation, stationery, papermaking, publishing, book selling or newspaper production' (e.g. the MLitt in Publishing Studies).
- The University's own Research Office website includes a user-friendly database of Grants and Trusts. This is updated regularly, should help prospective applicants to establish their eligibility for help quickly and efficiently.
Prospective applicants should also consult this listing of Tuition Fees & Financial Support.
