How to Apply British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarships 2024

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The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) will provide scholarships for PhD and Early Career Researchers based outside the UK to come to Scotland to undertake in-person and hybrid exchanges for up to 3 months in 2024, in the area of environmental arts and humanities.

The research placements will include an in-person 2-week cohort-building core leadership programme where all recipients will come together alongside Scotland-based scholars to network and collaborate in April 2024, supported by a set of thematically and geographically oriented Clusters.

The programme focus is to promote the role and interventions of the environmental arts and humanities, and the arts and cultural sector, in addressing the climate emergency, and their capacity for interdisciplinary research within STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics) contexts.

Also note that, The programme will create research opportunities and international mobility which will develop and support new approaches to address the global challenge of climate crisis, and support sustainable research and cultural interchanges within and beyond the arts and, humanities and cultural sectors.

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About the Scholarship:

The programme will be structured around two of SGSAH’s strategic themes and priority areas; the Environmental Humanities and Creative Industries/Economies, with a focus on climate emergency themes, the interventions of the arts and cultural sector, and the legacy of COP26, held in Glasgow in 2021. The programme will enrich collaborations between Scottish and international HEIs, building on SGSAH’s Global Connects programmes, and the SFC Saltire Emerging Researcher scheme.

Eligibility:

  • Candidate must be  PhD holder and early career researchers (ECRs) registered at or graduated from any non-UK university who are working within the environmental arts and humanities to come to Scotland to work with an academic mentor and access networks and resources of a host HEI (Higher Education Institute) in 2024
  • All applicants must be currently registered for a PhD, or graduated with a PhD, which broadly falls under Arts & Humanities subject areas
  • Research proposals must also fall into Arts & Humanities subject areas. For any interdisciplinary PhDs, at least 50% of the project must fall within Arts & Humanities disciplines.
  • The programme strongly encourages research project proposals that have interdisciplinarity approaches beyond the Arts & Humanities.
  • For the purposes of the Programme, ECRs must be within 1 year of notification of award of their PhD (under exceptional circumstances this can be extended to 2 years

The SGSAH HEIs are:

  • Abertay University
  • Edinburgh Napier University
  • The Glasgow School of Art
  • Glasgow Caledonian University
  • Heriot-Watt University
  • Queen Margaret University
  • Robert Gordon University
  • Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  • University of Aberdeen
  • University of Dundee
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Glasgow
  • University of St Andrews
  • University of Stirling
  • University of Strathclyde
  • University of the Highlands & Islands
  • University of the West of Scotland

How to Apply British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarships 2024

you must submit:

  • A full research proposal; and details of how you will benefit from Cluster membership, cohort-building, training and development activities
  • A budget and justification of resources
  • A CV (up to 4pp)
  • A letter of support from your PhD supervisor (up to 2pp)
  • A letter of support from the proposed Host Institution (Head of Department or equivalent) (up to 2pp)

The application is made through SGSAH’s online system Click here to apply

For more detail Visit: SGSAH EARTH Scholarships

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