Carnegie Trust PhD Scholarships

Carnegie Trust PhD Scholarships

Summary

Carnegie PhD Scholarships are prestigious schemes of scholarships designed to support a limited number of graduates with first class honours degrees who will pursue three years of postgraduate research leading to a PhD at a Scottish university. There is no restriction on the subject or field.

Description

The University of Aberdeen can nominate up to five candidates for consideration by the Carnegie Trust Selection Committee for its prestigious PhD Scholarship Schemes. Scholarships provide fees, maintenance, research and travel allowances (please read the regulations for full details).

Eligibility

Graduates of a Scottish university holding or expecting to achieve a degree with first-class honours in any subject and intending to pursue three years of postgraduate research leading to a PhD can be nominated by their university for the award of a Carnegie Scholarship. Only students who have undertaken or are undertaking their first degree at a Scottish university are eligible. Students who have not undertaken their first degree at a Scottish university but are undertaking a one year postgraduate degree at a Scottish university are not eligible to apply for a Scholarship. Students in their final undergraduate year, who are expected to achieve first-class honours, may be nominated and then withdrawn, should they fail to achieve this grade. International students who hold a first class honours degree from a Scottish university are eligible to apply. The Carnegie Trust will only cover the cost of the equivalent fees for UK/EU students and universities are expected to waive the outstanding balance for international fees.

Criteria

Scholarships are only available for tenure at a Scottish university. Students wishing to apply to a university outside Scotland are not eligible.

Application Procedure

To be considered for nomination to the Carnegie Trust for an award you must have sent your completed application to pgrs-studentships@abdn.ac.uk with the subject line ‘Carnegie PhD scholarship application’, by 12 noon on 13th January 2023. The body of the email must include: your full name, University of Aberdeen Personal ID number and Application Code (you will have received this when you applied for admission), and the name of the academic supporting your nomination. It is strongly advised that you contact a potential supervisor to discuss your application well in advance of this deadline.

Deadline

13th of January 2023

Further Info

The following awards are all administered as part of this single scheme. Successful candidates will be allocated the most relevant Scholarship to their field of study. The Scholarships are awarded and held under identical conditions.

Carnegie PhD Scholarships – funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, the Scholarships are open for doctoral study in any field.

Caledonian Research Foundation (CRF) – The Trust adminsters the CRF Scholarships on behalf of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, which received the funding for these awards from the Caledonian Research Foundation. One Scholarship is usually awarded for study in the Life Sciences and another in Arts and Humanities.

Carnegie-Cant-Morgan PhD Scholarship in Botany/Plant Science – Funded by a legacy from Mr Keith Morgan, this scholarship in plant science in awarded every three years. It will next be offered for a PhD starting in 2023-24.

What does the Trust look for in candidates?

Candidates nominated for these highly competitive awards must:

• Display outstanding potential for research at postgraduate level
• Demonstrate academic excellence and a strong performance in their final year dissertation project as well as evidence of cosistency and/or increasing levels of achievement throught their studies.
• Submit a research proposal that exhibits excellence, originality and significance.
• Ensure a good fit between the proposed research and the environment and facilities offered by the University in which the PhD will be undertaken.
• Seek out high quality supervisory arrangements.

Find out more about Carnegie PhD Scholarships

Application Docs

UoA_Carnegie_PhD_Scholarships_Application_form.docx

Carnegie_Application_Process_2022.pdf

PhD_Scholarship_Regulations_2022-23.pdf