Graduate Funding

AHRC funding
2012-2013

The English Department has an allocation of two doctoral and three master's studentships for 2012-13. Unfortunately funding cuts mean that not all these awards, especially for Masters programmes, may be allocated. Interviews for AHRC studentships will be held in late March 2012; only candidates who have already been offered a place on the programme will be considered for an award. If candidates wish to be considered for AHRC funding they are requested to indicate this on their application form when applying for a place at UCL.

Nominated students will have to complete a JeS (Joint Electronic Submission) online application to the AHRC, the period for doing which opens at the end of May and closes at the end of July 2011. However, UCL policy will be that any students who have not completed their JeS application by 30 June 2012 will forfeit their nomination, which would pass to the next on the reserve list.

The English Department will give its nominated students help and advice about how to complete the JeS form.

Please note that applicants can be nominated for an AHRC studentship by one department or programme only; the AHRC will automatically reject any student nominated by more than one.

Once the JeS applications are in, AHRC will carry out an eligibility check, but otherwise will accept the nominations of the institutions. Standard award letters will then go out in August, but students will effectively know that they will have a grant to study at UCL if they are told in April that they have been selected for nomination.

For further information about eligibility and the nomination process, please consult the AHRC website.

AHRC website

UCL GRS/ORS scholarships
2012-13

UCL provides up to 15 UCL Graduate Research Scholarships (GRS), available annually to prospective and current UCL MPhil/PhD and EngD students from any country. In addition it offers c. 40 UCL Overseas Research Scholarships annually, which are available to overseas MPhil/PhD students and will cover the difference between the overseas and the current UK/EU tuition fees. UCL will cover the UK/EU fee element for UCL-ORS recipients who do not have any other fee funding.

Nominations from departments to the College are due by Friday 24 February 2012. In order to meet this deadline, interested students should submit their scholarship applications to the English department by Friday 10 February 2012.

Please note that there is only one combined application procedure and application form for both of these schemes, and applicants should submit only ONE application. Applicants will then be considered for the awards for which they are eligible.

Detailed information for staff and students as well as the downloadable application form and guidance for referees are available from the relevant weblinks (GRS, ORS) in the UCL Scholarships and Funding webpages. Please note that the same application form is provided on each webpage.

UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Faculty Instititue of Graduate Studies (FIGS) Postgraduate Research Studentships

Details of the FIGS Postgraduate Research Studentships are to be found on the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities website.

Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships in the Humanities

Applications are invited for three 3-year research studentships in the humanities, funded by the Wolfson Foundation. The studentships will normally cover fees (at the UK/EU level) and include a maintenance stipend of £19,370 p.a. and an element for research and training costs.

Applications will be considered for students interested in undertaking doctoral research in the disciplines of history, literature and languages. One studentship will be available in each discipline. Applicants should have an outstanding academic record, usually a first class honours degree at undergraduate level and a Master’s degree from a recognised university in a cognate field of study to their proposed doctoral research.

Applicants must submit an application for a research degree to one of the participating departments in the Faculties of Arts and Humanities or Social and Historical Sciences. Applications must be submitted by Wednesday 1 February 2012. Applicants must also write to the postgraduate admissions tutor of the relevant department indicating that they wish to be considered for a Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview in the second half of March.

For specific enquiries about these scholarships, please contact
Dr Stephanie Bird, Faculty Graduate Tutor, Arts and Humanities, (stephanie.bird@ucl.ac.uk, tel +44 20 7679 3104)
Dr Tom Gretton, Graduate Tutor, Social and Historical Sciences, (t.gretton@ucl.ac.uk, tel +44 20 3108 4021)
Dr Susan Morrissey, Head of Postgraduate Research, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, (s.morrissey@ssees.ucl.ac.uk, tel +44 20 7679 8760)