Edinburgh College of Art PhD Scholarships

Academic year 2025
Edinburgh, Scotland

Overview

Edinburgh College of Art is delighted to announce its next round of scholarships to applicants for PhD 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.

Award

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.

Eligibility

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.

Applying

Scholarship application deadline: 23:59 GMT 3rd February 2025.

Deadline

Application will close on 03 February 2025

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