The College of Arts and Social Sciences is actively expanding its portfolio of Masters programmes, many of them multi-disciplinary. At the postgraduate research level, the College aims to promote excellent research in all its disciplines and to provide a framework in which multi-disciplinary research can flourish.
The College offers a wide range of postgraduate opportunities at both Masters and Doctoral levels. Depending on the subjects studied, students can achieve an award of PhD, MPhil, MEd, MLitt, MRes, MTh, MSc, LLM, Diploma, Certificate or Masters of Business Administration (MBA). In addition to its October intake, the College is now offering programmes for February admission.
The programmes are delivered by staff who are experts in their field with related research interests which inform the development of the curriculum, thus providing a stimulating work environment for students.
College Postgraduate Funding
The College is pleased to offer a number of funded PhD studentships under six research themes:
- Behaviour, Choices and Markets
- Early Scandinavian Culture and Society
- The Ideas, Practices and Impacts of Global Empires
- Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Violence
- Society and Culture in the North Sea World
- Translating Cultures: Literature, Music and the Visual Arts in a World Context
Each research theme has a minimum of four postgraduate studentships available commencing in 2010-11 and a further four commencing in 2011-12. For more information about all of these research projects, please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/graduate/funding/research.
The College also has six AHRC Studentships available in 2010 under the Block Grant Partnership:
- Celtic Studies (Doctoral Award)
- Divinity & Religious Studies (Doctoral Award)
- English Language & Literature (Doctoral Award)
- History (Doctoral Award)
- Law (one Research Preparation Masters Award, one Doctoral Award)
Further AHRC Studentships will be available in 2011, 2012 and 2013. For more information about these awards, please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/graduate/funding/ahrc.
Non-College Studentships are also available through the following Research Centres:
- Centre for Modern Thought: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/modernthought
- Northern Institute of Philosophy: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/nip
- Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul
Overseas PhD students are eligible to be considered for a SORSAS award, and all postgraduate students are eligible to be considered for open funding.
Funding information
Funding applies to:
Open to applicants from a range of countries
Funding notes:
Eligibility to apply depends on conditions of the award scheme. Applicants can only be considered for funding if they have been made an offer of a place at the University (conditional or unconditional). Amount varies by scheme.
