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School of Arts, Languages and Cultures School Studentships

If you are liaising with a potential supervisee who may interested in applying for this funding competition, please direct them to the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures PhD Studentships funding page.

A number of School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Studentships are available each year to incoming PGRs holding offers for any SALC PhD programme, listed below.

The studentships cover a full programme (3.5 years full time, or 7 years part time), to a value of:

  • Tuition fees (home or overseas)
  • An annual maintenance stipend (£19,237 per annum for 2024/25)

Eligibility

Applicants must meet the academic requirements of their programme. For most programmes in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, this is:

  • Bachelor's (Honours) degree at 2:1 or above (or overseas equivalent); and
  • Master's degree in a relevant subject - with an overall average of 65% or above, a minimum mark of 65% in your dissertation and no mark below 55% (or overseas equivalent).

To be considered for a SALC studentship, applicants must also submit an application for one or both of the following competitions:

Deadlines

To enter the SALC Studentship competition, applicants must submit their programme application no later than 13 January 2025.

Applicants must submit their research council funding application by the given deadlines:

AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP): 5pm GMT, Monday, 3 February 2025

ESRC North West Social Science DTP (NWSSDTP) PhD Studentships: 5pm GMT, Monday, 3 February 2025

Please note that these are strict deadlines and late or incomplete applications will not be included in the competition.

Allocation procedure

  1. Applicants submit their programme application by Monday, 13 January 2025. Applications must contain all necessary supporting documents and indicate the intention to apply for a SALC studentship, in addition to AHRC NWCDTP and/or ESRC NWSSDTP funding.
  2. Applicants submit the completed AHRC NWCDTP Application Form and Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form to the Humanities Doctoral Academy via hums.doctoralacademy.admissions@manchester.ac.uk no later than 5pm GMT 3 February 2025.
  3. Applications are circulated for review via the evaluation process. If you have a potential supervisee seeking SALC funding, please ensure to review their application in a timely manner. Applicants must hold a formal programme offer by the AHRC Pathway Representative nomination deadline (7 March 2025). If all approval has not been given by these dates, the application will not be eligible for funding consideration.
  4. As per the AHRC NWCDTP allocation process, the Doctoral Academy Admissions team will provide candidate lists to Pathway Representatives by 14 February 2025.
  5. Pathway Representatives will then review the applications and add scores and comments to the candidate list spreadsheet. Following this review, the ranking and spreadsheet must be returned to the Doctoral Academy Admissions Team by 7 March 2025.
  6. All eligible applicants holding offers by the 1 March 2025 are compiled into a full school candidate list, including the scores and comments by the pathway leads. This is then provided to the PGR Director for a joint ranking.
  7. On 30 April and 1 May, the NWCDTP Studentship Committee takes place, and AHRC NWCDTP studentships are allocated.
  8. Following AHRC NWCDTP allocation, the SALC Studentship Panel is arranged by the PGR Director, and SALC Studentships allocated accordingly. The outcomes are confirmed to the Doctoral Academy Admissions team.
  9. The Doctoral Academy Admissions team communicates outcomes to all unsuccessful and reserve candidates, and issues funding letters to SALC studentship awardees.

New Generation PhD Studentships

3 SALC studentships are ringfenced to UK-domiciled applicants who qualify for home fee status and who identify with one of the following groups currently under-represented in postgraduate research in the Humanities:

  • Black/Black British - African
  • Black/Black British - Caribbean
  • Black/Black British - Other
  • Black/Black British background - Mixed

To enter the competition, applicants must indicate their intention to apply for a New Generation PhD Studentship in section 9 of the application form.

The deadlines and allocation process are the same as above. New Generation PhD Studentship applicants will be indicated in the candidate list, and the awardees will be determined in the SALC panel.