Open International Scholarships

External Sources
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) studentships. The AHRC has three postgraduate studentship schemes: Research Masters, Professional Masters, and Doctoral. The School has an excellent record in these competitions, winning an average of 40 awards p.a. in recent years. School deadline for applicants: 2 March 2008.
Guidance for AHRC Applicants

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Three of our MA programmes are recognized by the ESRC as research training outlets in economic and social history: the MAs in Economic and Social History, Cultural History, and War, Culture and History. We are also recognized for PhD awards in economic and social history. We currently offer two quota awards per year, either 1+3 (MA + PhD) or +3 (PhD only), and are sometimes able to enter candidates for the open competition. School deadline for applicants: 2 March 2008.
Contact Dr Till Geiger for further information: till.geiger@manchester.ac.uk

Overseas Research Studentships (ORS). These provide funding to outstanding full-time Postgraduate Research students from outside the UK and European Union. They cover the difference between the tuition fees for a home postgraduate student and the full cost fee chargeable to an overseas postgraduate student. The awards are competitive and are given on the criteria of outstanding merit and research potential. The School is able to offer an additional funding package to the best ORS applicants.
Application deadline: usually January.

School Awards
PhD awards
The School offers:

• Four GTA awards (home fees + £10.k stipend)
• Ten fee bursaries (covering either home fees or the difference between home and overseas fees)

These are awarded competitively in July. Home/EU candidates are required to apply for the AHRC/ESRC competitions, and their research council application will be taken as an application for the School’s competition. Overseas applicants should apply using the Research Awards Overseas Students Application Form (deadline 2 March 2008).

MA awards
The School offers Rylands Achievement Awards (£500 towards fees) to Manchester graduates with first-class degrees.

Subject-specific awards are offered as follows:

• Archaeology
• Art Gallery and Museum Studies
• Art History and Visual Studies
• Classics and Ancient History
• Drama
• English and American Studies
• History
• Music
• Religions and Theology

Eligible applicants are expected to apply for AHRC or ESRC funding as appropriate. Except where a separate application procedure is indicated, the AHRC/ESRC application will be taken as an application for the School’s awards. Overseas applicants should apply usuing the Masters Awards Overseas Students Application Form (deadline 2 March 2008).

Archaeology

• One bursary of £3,000
• The David Coombs Bursary of £1,000 for an overseas (non-EU) applicant.

Art Gallery and Museum Studies

• One bursary of £1,000 for an overseas (non-EU) applicant.

Art History and Visual Studies

• One bursary of £1,000 for an overseas (non-EU) applicant.

Classics and Ancient History

• One bursary of £3,000
• The T.B.L. Webster Bursary of £1000 for an overseas (non-EU) applicant.

Drama

• One bursary of £1,000 for an overseas (non-EU) applicant.

English and American Studies

• Five bursaries of £3000
• The George Gissing Bursary (£1000) for an overseas (non-EU) applicant)

History

• Three bursaries of £3,000
• The Lewis Namier Bursary (£1,000) for an overseas (non-EU) applicant.

Music

• One bursary of £1,000 for an overseas (non-EU) applicant.
• Victor Sayer Postgraduate Awards (up to £2,000). Application procedure
• Postgraduate Bursaries for Music Students. Application procedure

Religions and Theology

• Trevor Ling Bursary of £1,000 for an overseas (non-EU) applicant.
• Chadwick Prize of a value equal to UK/EU fees (currently £3,300 full-time) for any of the MA programmes offered by the Religions and Theology subject area. Awarded for the best essay of 5,000 words or more on a subject connected with religions or theology. Closing date for receipt of essays: 1 August 2008. Further information available here:
• Lionel Black Bursary Fund: one bursary of £5,000 and six further awards of £500 to students taking either the MA in Jewish Studies or the MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies (in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures). Further information available here:
• Bishop Lee Greek Testament Prize (Senior): value equal to UK/EU fees for MA Biblical Studies. Awarded for the best essay of £5000 words or more which demonstrates skill in the study of the New Testament in Greek. Closing date for receipt of essays: 1 August 2008. Further information available here:
• Celia Hughes Bursaries (1983). One or more bursaries, usually of no more than £299, primarily intended for travel in connection with study or research in theology; preference is given to students taking courses in or conducting research in Ecclesiastical History.
• Dasturji Dr. Sohrabji Hormasji Kutar fund (1986): A grant of a value to be determined awarded to students in Comparative Religion who are pursuing research on any aspect of Zoroastrianism, its traditional languages and original sources, which will be embodied in a thesis or dissertation. For further details please contact Dr Peter Oakes.
• Mark Gibbs Bursary. For graduate study and research leading to the award of the degree of MPhil. The Bursary (maintenance grant and fees) is tenable for 1 year. For further particulars and applications forms please contact Professor Elaine Graham.
• The UJIA Bursary Scheme. The UJIA invites applications for bursaries from students who wish to follow a career in teaching Jewish Studies and/or Ivrit and who may be considering taking course(s) at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester. Candidates must be prepared to commit themselves to taking a PGCE course after the completion of their degree. UJIA Bursaries will meet tuition costs and, in some cases, may also include a grant towards living expenses. For information contact Professor Bernard Jackson.
• Hedley Lucas, Poet, Scholarship (1988): A scholarship of a value to be determined in each case awarded to a student in Theology. Preference will be given to a student indicating an intention to join the Christian ministry in its widest sense. Applicants should include details of the study proposed and how this will enhance the candidate’s own programme of study within the University of Manchester. Letters of application must be submitted to the Head of Religions & Theology October 31st. For further information contact Professor George Brooke.

Faculty of Humanities Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures
The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), part of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester, invites applications from highly qualified individuals for six three-year PhD bursaries of £ 3,370 p.a. (towards fees and/or maintenance) to enable them to research and write doctoral dissertations on any aspect of one of the following broadly defined themes:

• Cities, Transnationalities, and Migrations (Supervisor: Prof. Nina Glick Schiller, School of Social Sciences)
• 2. Mediating Cosmopolitanism: Film, Media, and Transnational Cultures (Supervisor: Prof. Jackie Stacey, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures)
• 3. Genealogies of Cosmopolitanism: Commonality, Difference, Exile (Supervisor: Prof. Galin Tihanov, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures)

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Category: Postgraduate-PhD, United Kingdom