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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 PhD Doctoral Studentships

  • Deadline: 12 noon on 2 December 2019
  • 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.

Alan Turing Doctoral Studentships

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £20,500 stipend plus tuition fees per annum
  • Eligibility: Available to candidates interested in interdisciplinary research collaboration within data science and artificial intelligence disciplines. Candidates must note interest in this studentship to the ECA Postgraduate Office (ecaresearchdegrees@ed.ac.uk) asap and note this in their EUCLID PhD application. We will then send you an additional form for completion.

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.

Carnegie / Caledonian PhD Scholarships

  • Deadline:
  • Value: Covers tuition fees, a maintenance allowance and a research expenses allowance.
  • 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 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 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.

Gwen Clutterbuck & Leighton Scholarship

  • Deadline: 13 December 2019 and 1 May 2020
  • 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.

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).

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.

Mrs Guthrie Watson Scholarship

  • Deadline: May 2020
  • 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.

School of Design ECA Alumni Micro-Residency 2019

  • Deadline:
  • Value: £1,000 honorarium plus expenses
  • Eligibility: Offered to a postgraduate alumnus from the School of Design who is eligible to work in the United Kingdom.

Sir Thomas Beecham Scholarship

  • Deadline: May 2020
  • 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).

The University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow joint PhD studentships

  • Deadline:
  • Value: 4 years stipend/tuition fee waiver plus annual support budget (£2000) and travel costs (£1000)

Tovey Memorial Prize

  • Deadline:
  • Value: Winner: £750, Runner-up: £250
  • 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.