Arthur Kitchen PhD Scholarships for Overseas Students in UK, 2015-2016

Three scholarships are available to overseas applicants starting a full-time PhD research degree at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) in September 2015. Each scholarship covers the overseas rate of tuition fee. Subject to satisfactory progress, the scholarships are awarded for three years. The application deadline is 20 March 2015.

Study Subject(s):

Successful applicants will have a research interest aligning with, or cutting across, the research focus areas in ECA’s five Schools:

-School of Art: Contemporary Art Practice, The Educational Turn; Art writing, Criticism & Publishing; Art & Anthropology; Animism; Hypotechnology; Cultural Landscapes; Materiality.

-School of Design: Body and Space; Design and Digital Technologies; Materiality and Making; Mechanics of Narrative; Design Cultures; and Contemporary Film Theory and Practice.

-ESALA (Architecture and Landscape Architecture): Architectural and Urban Design; Cultural Studies in Architecture; Digital Media; History, Theory and Conservation of Architecture and Urbanism; Landscape Architecture; Material Science and Technology; and Sustainability.

-History of Art: Western visual culture from c.400 to 2014; Islamic art; Chinese art.

-Reid School of Music: Acoustics and Physical Modelling; Composition (instrumental/algorithmic /computer/electronic); Community Music; Improvisation, Musical Instrument Research; Music for Screen; Musicology (including Popular Music); Music Psychology.

Course Level:

Scholarships are available for pursuing PhD degree level at University of Edinburgh.

Scholarship Provider:

University of Edinburgh, UK

Scholarship can be taken at:

UK

Eligibility:-

Applicants must be liable to pay tuition fees at the rate applicable to overseas full-time PhD students.

-If you wish to commence a PhD programme of study in academic year 2015-2016, you must ensure that you have fully submitted your PhD study application, using the University of Edinburgh’s online system, before 6 March 2015.

-Scholarship applications from prospective students which are not supported by a fully completed study application (including references) will be set aside and not considered for funding.

Number of award(s):

Three scholarships are available to overseas applicants.

Duration of award(s):

Scholarships are offered for three years.

What does it cover?

Each scholarship covers the overseas rate of tuition fee. Subject to satisfactory progress, the scholarships are awarded for three years.

Notification:

A Selection Committee will meet shortly after 20 March 2015 to review the scholarship applications. All applicants will be informed of the outcome in May 2015, and the recipients will be announced on the ECA website at the start of the 2015-2016 academic year.

How to Apply:

The mode of applying is online. To apply for a scholarship you must first apply for admission for an eligible programme of study at the University of Edinburgh. Once you have applied for admission you will receive your University Username (UUN). Your UUN is the letter ‘s’ followed by your matriculation number; for example, s0987654. Eligible students should complete an online scholarship application before the application deadline of 20 March 2015.

Scholarship Application Deadline:

The application deadline is 20 March 2015.