Doctoral Landscape Awards support PhD studentships across the arts and humanities and are provided as block grant awards to HEIs. These awards replace the PhD studentships previously offered by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
The Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities will provide Doctoral Landscape Award holders with additional PhD training and Cohort Development opportunities during the studentship.
Awards
The University of Edinburgh is offering 3 doctoral studentships for academic session 2026/2027 across 3 disciplinary panels. There is one studentship available to applicants of ECA PhD programmes related to the disciplinary panel listed below:
- Media
- Communications
- Cultural Policy
- Film and TV
- Library and Information Studies
Studentship application deadline - Thursday 27 November 2025 (23:59 GMT)
The award will cover the PhD tuition fee and a stipend at the UKRI level for a minimum of 3.5 years full-time study, plus training options equivalent to a further 6 months of stipend to best support your PhD project and professional goals. The funding is also available for part-time students who do not require a Student Route visa.
Are you eligible?
This funding is only open to new applicants for PhD study in academic session 2026/2027. The funding is not open to current PhD students or Distance PhD applicants.
Candidates will normally hold a relevant First Class Honours degree (such as BA, BMus, BSc or LLB) and preferably a similar calibre of Master’s degree.
Awards are available to Home fee applicants and up to one of the three awards across the University can be made to an International applicant. Please check the full UKRI eligibility criteria here.
To qualify for Home status an applicant must: be a UK National (meeting residency requirements), or have settled status, or have pre-settled status AND meet residency requirement (3 years residency in the UK/EEA/Gibraltar/Switzerland immediately before the start of the PhD) or have indefinite leave to enter or remain.
Awards are only available in the advertised disciplinary panels. Where the PhD research proposal does not fit within the disciplinary panel, your funding application will be ineligible.
This award is open to applicants for any PhD programme at ECA whose research proposal has, as its primary focus, one (or more) of the following:
- Media
- Communications
- Cultural Policy
- Film and TV
- Library and Information Studies
For example: PhD in Design, with a research proposal focusing on film and TV, or PhD in Architecture, with a research proposal focusing on cultural policy.
Browse the PhD programmes at ECA:
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