Postgraduate

Deadline: 1^st Feb 2021

Eligibility: UK/EU only

1+3 Studentships, covering tuition and maintenance (UK & EU if resident in the UK for at least 3 years) or fees only (EU) for 1+3 years.

The Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University is part of the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The NWCDTP brings together the Universities of Manchester, Keele, Lancaster, and Liverpool, awarding around 41 PhD studentships over a 6 year period and extensive research training.

Guidelines as to how to apply, FAQs and application forms can be found on the faculty website.

Important: You need to have applied for and accepted an offer of a place on one of the relevant programmes by the deadline.

Further details:

• FASS ESRC Studentships information pages
• ESRC – How to Apply

Deadline: 4^th February 2022
Eligibility: UK/EU & overseas

1+3 Studentships, covering tuition and maintenance (UK & EU if resident in the UK for at least 3 years) or fees only (EU/Overseas) for 1+3 years.

The Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University is part of the North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The NWCDTP brings together the Universities of Manchester, Keele, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester Metropolitan, the Royal Northern College of Music and Salford, awarding around 200 PhD studentships over a 5 year period and extensive research training. Guidelines as to how to apply for studentships are available on the faculty website.

Important: You need to have applied for and accepted an offer of a place on one of the relevant programmes by the deadline.

• Faculty AHRC Studentships information pages
• AHRC – How to Apply

Number of bursaries: A variety of scholarships will be awarded up to the level of a fees bursary plus £15,000 maintenance.
Eligibility: Open to UK/EU and Overseas applicants
Deadline: Closed for 2020 admission.

A number of Faculty Postgraduate bursaries and scholarships are available for students wishing to study for a Master's degree (Fees only), a Master's Degree followed by a PhD (“1+3”), or for a PhD degree within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

A variety of scholarships will be awarded ranging from fee bursaries, to fee bursaries plus maintenance grants up to the value of £15,000.

Please see the faculty website for the relevant terms & conditions before applying.

Applications should be made on the appropriate application form and should be sent to the Director of Postgraduate Studies.

Award criteria

The scholarships will be awarded by the faculty on a competitive basis. Candidates for a scholarship will be ranked based on the following criteria:

1. Academic ability (as evidenced by academic record and references)
2. Suitability for the programme applied for
3. Commitment to scholarship in the relevant field(s)
4. Potential for contribution to scholarship and society more generally

The Peel Studentship Trust was established in 1964, by donations from the Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust. The awards are available for the support of students for first or higher degrees, in any subject. The period of the award is one academic year, although students can apply each year. The value of the award is determined by the Trustees in each case, up to an individual maximum of £2500.

Deadline: tbc

Lancaster University will offer a reduction in tuition fees to all taught Master's programmes for eligible applicants, determined by the level of undergraduate or postgraduate award achieved.

You do not need to apply for this scholarship, you will qualify automatically if you meet the eligibility criteria and the course entry requirements.

For more information please see Scholarships and Bursaries

In November 2015 the UK Government confirmed that a new postgraduate loan scheme will be introduced for students commencing Master’s courses in the 2016/17 academic year.

For full details see Postgraduate Loan Scheme - Master's.

Additional funding opportunities are available for international students through the British Council; the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; the Department for International Development; and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

Applications are invited for grants from the above fund, which was set up in 1993-94 from the estate of the late Yves Hervouet (1936-1985), author, amongst other studies, of The French Face of Joseph Conrad, who was a member of staff in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University from 1974 to his death.

The Fund supports research and research-related activities on Anglo-French topics, particularly those which reach a public beyond the academic community. Grants made are normally in the £100 to £1000 range, although larger requests can be considered, and references are taken up on all applications.

Support is primarily for post-doctoral research, but, in exceptional circumstances, might be given to a student about to complete a Ph.D. on a relevant topic.

Preference will be given to:

• genuine Anglo-French or Franco-British topics
• activities which reach a public beyond the academic community
• initiatives requiring seed-corn funding

Awards will normally be expected to match or top-up existing funds or to underwrite an activity.

Appropriate allocation of funds might be towards:

• fees
• travel grant for a Fellow coming normally from France or the UK to Lancaster (but not for accompanying persons)
• cost of research materials and facilities to support the work of a Fellow
• dissemination of a Fellow's research outcome
• the bringing of French scholars to Lancaster (even if their topic is not specifically Anglo-French relations)

Projects that have been successful in applying for funds in recent years are as follows:

• 'Minorités en vue', a one-day colloquium on the theme of the visibility of minorities in modern France, held at Lancaster House Hotel in May 2011
• Une Amitié bretonne: Lettres d'Emile Souvestre à Edouard Turquety 1826-52: contribution towards the costs of publication by Presses Universitaires de Rennes in 2011
• 'Ecriture et Literacy': contribution towards the costs of publication of Paris conference proceedings on French and English approaches to literacy, Continuum Books, 2010
• Bursary for an EU placement to a student enrolled on the MA in European Institutions and Policy-Making in 2008-09
• 'Journeys of a Lifetime': contribution to the costs of an exhibition catalogue, Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, 2008
• Writers in Conflict in 16th Century France: contribution towards the costs of a volume of essays in honour of Malcolm Quainton, Durham Modern Languages Series, 2008
• Mazurka Seminar: a presentation by Eric Theze at Lancaster, May 2006

Applications, in the form of a letter in the first instance, should be made to: Marion McClintock, University Library, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4HW, or e-mail m.mcclintock@lancaster.ac.uk.

Please contact the Director of Postgraduate Studies for more information about the awards and the supervision the department can offer.