Fees and Funding Opportunities for 2012

Updated: May 2012

Fees

Fee levels are listed on the Postgraduate Research Tuition Fees pages.

Scholarships

Please note that when we know of a new funding scheme it will be updated on this website immediately.

Funding is available under the following schemes:

University Prize and Faculty Scholarships (Human, Physical and Joint Physical-Human Geography)
University Prize Scholarships and Faculty Scholarships provide fees and an annual maintenance stipend of up to £16,000. These are highly prestigious awards and to be competitive, candidates will need to have/be clearly predicted a first-class undergraduate degree and/or a distinction at Masters-level. These scholarships have now been allocated for 2012/13.

ESRC Studentships
Studentships for Human Geography postgraduate research are available in the department, as part of the White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Centre (WRSSDTC). These include:

• 2 x ESRC open studentships (see link on the right)
• 1 x ESRC White Rose Network funded PhD Project: The changing Nature and Extent of Ethnic and Social Segregation Within

The department can also nominate students for ESRC Advanced Quantitative Methods studentships available within the WRSSDTC and welcomes applications suitable for this. These studentships have now been allocated for 2012/13.

Other Opportunities

The University Postgraduate Research Scholarships pages (see link to right) supply useful links to a range of further potential funding sources.

Please see the links on the right for further scholarship opportunities not administered through the Geography Department.