Funding Information Meeting
A Funding Information meeting will be held on Wednesday 13 January 2010 at 1 pm (13.00hrs) in room G51 of the ERI Building, Pritchatts Road (G3 on the University map). Professor Leslie Brubaker, the Director of the College of Arts and Law Graduate School, will provide details of all the available scholarships as well as explaining how to complete the application forms and giving tips for success.
The University is offering postgraduate studentships in Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Law. Studentships at Masters or Doctoral level will usually commence in October 2010. Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) awards are available for home and eligible EU students in a wide range of disciplines and will cover tuition fees and a maintenance grant at AHRC rates. Twelve additional awards for Doctoral study are offered by the College, and over £100,000 is being targeted at specific needs within the Schools of the College for School Scholarships (details below).
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The University of Birmingham has been awarded 116 AHRC funded Postgraduate Studentships over 5 years, made up of 69 doctoral awards and 47 masters awards. These will cover a range of subject areas. Twenty-two AHRC Studentships (13 doctoral awards, 9 masters awards) will be available 2010/11.
13 AHRC doctoral awards (fees + maintenance; open to UK students and non-UK students who have been resident in the UK for at least 3 years for reasons other than education) in the following disciplinary areas:
• Classics & Ancient History (1)
• English Literature & English Language (3)
• History (4)
• History of Art (1)
• Italian Language & Culture (1)
• Music (1)
• Philosophy (1)
• Religious Studies (1)
6 AHRC Research Preparation (MA or MPhil) awards (fees + maintenance) in the following disciplinary areas:
English Literature & English Language (1)
• European Language & Culture (1)
• History (1)
• History of Art (2)
• Religious Studies (1)
3 AHRC Professional Preparation (MA) awards (fees + maintenance) in the following disciplinary areas:
• Archaeology (1)
• Dance, Drama & Performing Arts (1)
• Film, Digital & Media Production (1)
Full information on application forms, reference forms, guidelines and eligible subject areas are available at www.as.bham.ac.uk/study/support/admin/pgr/PGScholarships-CAL.shtml.
All applications must be received by 4.00pm (16.00hrs) on Friday 26 February 2010.
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These cover tuition fees for up to three years of PhD research and provide a maintenance grant similar to Research Council rates, subject to an annual review of student progress.
Applications are welcome from students studying any disciplines covered within the College’s six Schools.
Deadline and Application
To apply for a College Scholarship, you need to follow the same guidelines and complete the same application and reference forms as those used for applying for AHRC funding. These application forms and guidelines are available from www.as.bham.ac.uk/study/support/admin/pgr/PGScholarships-CAL.shtml
The deadline for receiving applications is 4.00pm (16.00hrs) on Friday 26 February 2010.
Examples of successful applications:
Playwriting Studies
Modern European Cultures
Science, Gender and Cultural Authority in Late Victorian Womens Poetry
Space Time and Memory in Contemporary British Fiction and Photography
Anglo-German Academic Exchange and Cultural Diplomacy 1919-1932
Birth, Life and Death in Byzantium
Patriotism is not enough: Visual responses to pacifism and feminism in Britain during World War I
Professional Preparation Masters - MA Byzantine Studies
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Birmingham Law School
• Up to 10 Studentships in LLM, plus 4 ring-fenced for students from the Indian subcontinent
English, Drama, and American and Canadian Studies (including the Shakespeare Institute and the Centre for English Language Studies)
• Charles Grant Robertson Scholarship (£1000) for a University of Birmingham undergraduate continuing on to postgraduate work in English
• 1 fees + maintenance Scholarship in Creative Writing or Directing and Dramaturgy
• 5 fees-remission Scholarships in any Masters/MPhil programme in the School
• 1 fees-remission Scholarship (overseas) in any Masters/MPhil programme in the School
History and Cultures (including African Studies)
• Edna Pearson Studentship (MPhilB, History; fees-remission)
• 4 fees-remission Scholarships in any Masters/MPhil programme in the School
• 1 fees-remission Scholarship for Contemporary History
• 1 fees-remission Scholarship for Medieval History
• 1 fees-reduction Scholarship to reduce overseas fees to the level of home/EU fees in any Masters/MPhil programme in the School
Institute for Archaeology and Antiquity (including Classics, Ancient History, Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies)
• Up to 8 fees-reduction Scholarships in any Masters/MPhil programme in the School
• 1 fees-reduction Scholarship for a continuing University of Birmingham student in any Masters programme in the School
• 3 fees-remission Scholarships in Practical Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, GIS and Virtual Environments (DE Masters Programmes)
• 1 fees-remission Scholarship for MA in Antiquity (any pathway)
• 1 fees-reduction Scholarship in Practical Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, or GIS and Virtual Environments (DE Masters Programmes)
• 1 fees-reduction Scholarship for MA in Antiquity (any pathway)
Languages, Culture, Art History and Music
• Up to 4 fees-remission Scholarships for Cultural Inquiry, Gender Studies, History of Art, Italian Studies, Modern European Cultures, Music
• 3 fees-remission Scholarships for Translation - European Languages and Cultures
Philosophy, Theology and Religion
• Dinshaw Bursary (£1000) for Theology/Inter-religious studies
• 1 fees-remission Scholarship (overseas) in any Masters/MPhil programme in the School
• 3 fees-remission Scholarships in any Masters/MPhil programme in the School
• 1 fees-remission Scholarship in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics
• 1 fees-reduction Scholarship
Applications are welcome from students studying any disciplines covered within the College’s six Schools.
Deadline and Application
To apply for a School Scholarship, you need to follow the same guidelines and complete the same application and reference forms as those used for applying for AHRC funding. These application forms and guidelines are available from www.as.bham.ac.uk/study/support/admin/pgr/PGScholarships-CAL.shtml and should be returned to: ahrcapplications@contacts.bham.ac.uk
The deadline for receiving applications is 4.00pm (16.00hrs) on Friday 26 February 2010.
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The School of History and Cultures have obtained funding from the Economic and Social Research Council for a fully-funded postgraduate studentship to study for a PhD in the field of social and economic history, starting in October 2010. This will cover tuition fees at the Home/EU rate and provide a maintenance grant at Research Council rates for one year’s Master’s training and three years’ PhD. For further details consult the ESRC website.
The subjects of research need to be in the areas of social and economic history. The School of History and Cultures has considerable strengths in these areas. Possible fields of research could include: early medieval northern Europe; later medieval manorialism and religious orders; eighteenth and nineteenth-century social structure, poverty, labour relations, popular protest; twentieth-century welfare and education policy, transport policy, industrial finance and State industrial policy, business history, sexuality, consumption and material culture, political activism and NGOs; eighteenth-century Poland; twentieth-century Germany; and the English West Midlands during the last millennium. For further details about research topics contact Dr Nicholas Crowson N.J.Crowson@bham.ac.uk
Only seven departments in English institutions are eligible for ESRC quota awards in social and economic history, and the University of Birmingham is one of these. The first year’s training programme, the MA in Social Research (Economic History), is particularly designed to provide suitable training.
Details about these studentships are available at www.historycultures.bham.ac.uk/postgrad/funding.shtml
Applications for ESRC funding must be submitted to the College of Arts and Law Graduate School Office by 26 February 2010 (N.B. revised date)
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There are also a number of Departmental scholarships/bursaries available.
The deadlines, conditions and application processes for these awards will be announced soon.
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The University offers a wide range of Scholarships. The application deadline has now passed for 2009/2010 but examples are shown in the link below for reference
View examples of previous University Scholarships
There will be further funding opportunities available. Details can be found on the Student Funding Office web page at www.as.bham.ac.uk/study/support/finance/
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As Government funding priorities for HEFCE have recently changed, it will not be possible to fund new ORS awards in England for the 20010/11 academic year and beyond.
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If you are interested in receiving further details when they become available, please contact The College of Arts and Law Graduate School: +44 (0) 121 41 42829, artsandlawgraduateschool@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
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