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Access Awards

  • Deadline: Various deadlines
  • Eligibility: Based on criteria such as income, background and personal circumstances, and in some cases geographical area.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award - Music, Community and Wellbeing

  • Deadline: 3 December 2018 (12pm)
  • Value: £14,999 per annum plus tuition fees for 3.5 years
  • Eligibility: Open to UK and EU applicants applying to PhD Music.

AHRC PhD Doctoral Studentships

  • Deadline: 12 noon on 3 December 2018
  • Value: Stipend of around £15,000 p/a & fees (fees only for EU students)
  • Eligibility: For research interests aligning with, or cutting across, ECA's Schools.

Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarships

  • Deadline: 1 March 2019
  • Value: £10,000
  • Eligibility: Scholarships available for one academic year of postgraduate Masters study at Edinburgh College of Art.

BAFTA UK Scholarships Programme

  • Deadline:
  • Value: Up to £12,000, mentoring, and event access
  • Eligibility: Open to British citizens undertaking Animation - MFA, Composition for Screen - MSc, Film Directing - MA/MFA.

Bucher-Fraser Scholarship (for continued study)

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £100 - £5,000
  • Eligibility: University of Edinburgh BMus graduates intending to study instrumental performance, composition, or for research outside Scotland. Also available to students undertaking postgraduate study in Music at ECA.

Bucher-Fraser Scholarship (for new students)

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £12,500
  • Eligibility: Awarded to a student who is accepted for admission on a full-time, postgraduate taught Masters programme in Music. Applicants must have received an offer by the scholarship deadline.

Carnegie / Caledonian PhD Scholarships

  • Deadline:
  • Value: Covers tuition fees, and maintenance, research and travel allowances
  • Eligibility: For graduates of a Scottish university with a first-class honours degree, or final year students of an undergraduate degree in Scotland expected to obtain a first-class honours (withdrawing if they fail to do so).

College Research Awards

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £16,000 per year for three years
  • Eligibility: Applications are invited for PhD research projects that take advantage of the leading research expertise across ECA.

ECA PG Masters Scholarships

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £10,000
  • Eligibility: Scholarships available for one academic year of postgraduate Masters study at Edinburgh College of Art.

ECA PhD Scholarship

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £16,000 per year for three years
  • Eligibility: Applications are invited for PhD research projects that take advantage of the leading research expertise across ECA.

Edinburgh College of Art PhD Interdisciplinary Scholarship

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £16,000 per year for three years full-time study (pro-rata for part-time)
  • Eligibility: If wishing to commence a new programme of study in September 2019 you must ensure that you have fully completed and submitted your PhD programme application for admission using the University's online system by no later than 25th January 2019.

Edinburgh Global Online Distance Learning Scholarship

  • Deadline:
  • Value: Cover full tuition fees for three years
  • Eligibility: Available to students commencing any distance learning Masters offered by the University. Intended for students outside of the EU. Various countries are eligible.

Edinburgh Global Research Scholarships

  • Deadline:
  • Value: Covers the difference between the tuition fee for a UK/EU postgraduate student and that chargeable to an overseas postgraduate student
  • Eligibility: Open to overseas students commencing a PhD in any field of study.

Eileen Cameron Music Prize

  • Deadline: No deadline: Awarded by nomination
  • Eligibility: Awarded to the final year student who has made the most outstanding contribution to the musical life of the faculty, the University of Edinburgh, or of the wider Edinburgh community.

Erasmus grant

  • Deadline: Apply as soon as you confirm your place
  • Value: Depending on duration and location of stay
  • Eligibility: Students registered on a full-time programme who are undertaking a minimum of two months' continuous work or three months' study mobility.

Frederick Niecks Essay Prize

  • Deadline: No deadline: Awarded by nomination
  • Value: Amount variable
  • Eligibility: Open to any full-time undergraduate student in the Reid School of Music. Awarded to the best dissertation.

GREAT Scholarships

  • Deadline: 2018 deadline to be confirmed
  • Value: £5,000
  • Eligibility: Awarded to a student from India who is accepted for admission on a full-time basis for a one-year taught postgraduate Masters programme.

Gwen Clutterbuck & Leighton Scholarship

  • Deadline: 14 December 2018 and 3 May 2019
  • Value: £100 - £1,000
  • Eligibility: Awarded to undergraduate students in the second or subsequent years of their BMus or MA programme in the Reid School of Music for the purpose of travel and study abroad.

Helen Doig Bursary

  • Deadline: 2018 deadline to be confirmed
  • Value: £1,000
  • Eligibility: Open to postgraduate research stuents pursuing research in the area of Scottish Music in either Reid School of Music or the Celtic and Scottish Studies department.

Hollins Organ Scholarship

  • Deadline:
  • Value: In the region of £500
  • Eligibility: Open for award annually to matriculated students in Music. Preference will be given to an organist preparing for the diplomas of Associateship and Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists.

Ian Pitt Memorial Prize

  • Deadline: No deadline: Awarded by nomination
  • Eligibility: Intended to commemorate the life and work of Ian Pitt-Watson (MA 1947, BD 1950) and awarded to an undergraduate who, as a member of Edinburgh University Musical Society, demonstrates an aptitude in the development and conducting of a choral ensemble.

J.S. Anderson Organ Prize

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £1,000
  • Eligibility: For current full-time Music students (Undergraduate and Postgraduate).

James Smart Memorial Organ Scholarship

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £1,000
  • Eligibility: Awarded to a Music student aged between 17 and 20, who shows the greatest promise and all-round ability in organ/piano performance.

Janet Buckley Memorial Prize

  • Deadline: No deadline: Awarded by nomination
  • Eligibility: Award for final year Music student dealing with 'Early Music before 1750'.

Jean Kennoway Howells Scholarship

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £9,000
  • Eligibility: Awarded to a student who is accepted onto a full-time, postgraduate taught Masters programme in Music.

John L Paterson PG Design Scholarship

  • Deadline: Deadline 1 May 2018
  • Value: £8,000
  • Eligibility: Applicants must either be a current ECA Undergraduate School of Design student or recent undergraduate alumni (within 5 years of graduation) of the School of Design.

John Robert Mackey Scholarship

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £500 per annum
  • Eligibility: Awarded on the basis of a competition to the first year undergraduate Music student who shows all-round excellence in piano performance.

Michael Tilmouth Research Scholarships

  • Deadline: 2018 deadline to be confirmed
  • Value: £500 per annum
  • Eligibility: Open to new and continuing full-time and part-time postgraduate research students in Music working in the field of Musicology.

Mrs Guthrie Watson Scholarship

  • Deadline: May 2019
  • Eligibility: Awarded to the first year undergraduate in Music who achieves the best all-round academic performance in the May examinations.

Royal Television Society Bursaries (External)

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £1000 each year for three years to support living expenses, RTS membership, and mentorship
  • Eligibility: Applicants should have career aspirations to work in television, show a demonstrable ability to study, and be keen to be active members of the RTS.

Sir Thomas Beecham Scholarship

  • Deadline: May 2019
  • Eligibility: Awarded annually, on the basis of the results of the end of year performance examinations, to the first year undergraduate in music who shows the greatest promise in instrumental performance (not including pianists and singers).

St Mary’s Cathedral Choral Scholarship (External)

  • Deadline: Open ended
  • Value: Up to 3 x £3,000 - £4,000 per annum
  • Eligibility: Up to three scholarships (External) are available for female and male altos, tenors, and basses. Applicants can be undergraduate or postgraduate Music students (all programmes). Applicants should be experienced choir singers, have a good level of sight-reading and should wish to develop their singing further.

The Hamilton & Inches Scholarship Programme

  • Deadline: Deadline pending
  • Value: £1,500 per annum
  • Eligibility: Awarded to 4th year students on the Jewellery & Silversmithing – BA (Hons) programme.

The Robert Hillenbrand Prize in Islamic Art and Architecture

  • Deadline:
  • Eligibility: Awarded for an outstanding piece of work by an Honours student (3rd, 4th or 5th year undergraduate).

Tovey Memorial Prize

  • Deadline:
  • Value: In the region of £750
  • Eligibility: Awarded annually on the basis of a competition to the undergraduate student in Music who shows the greatest promise in composition or in instrumental/vocal performance.