Financial Information and Scholarships

Current fees

You can find out more about fees for the current year from the University´s central web pages for prospective postgraduates.

Scholarships

Please note that in order to be considered for a University of Sheffield, AHRC or ESRC scholarship, you must first apply to the University for admission to an appropriate programme of study.

Fee Scholarships

The School is allocated a number of fee scholarships on an annual basis. See the University´s central web pages for prospective postgraduates for details. www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships

For further information on postgraduate bursaries, scholarships and other financial assistance and how to apply please see http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/research. If you have any further questions, please contact Katherine Gallagher (k.gallagher@sheffield.ac.uk).

Please note that the closing date for most of the scholarships will be 1 February 2013. You will need to have applied for your PhD (and received an application number) by this date in order to apply for a scholarship.

ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Centre Scholarship

The University is part of the ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Centre, a collaboration between the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York - and through this is able to offer a range of ESRC Postgraduate Scholarships. For 2013 entry we have been allocated 1 general ESRC scholarship.

Further information on the White Rose DTC can be found online at the following links:

www.sheffield.ac.uk/social-sciences-dtc/index
whiterose-social-science-doctoral-training-centre.ac.uk/

Departments can also nominate applicants for up to 4 ESRC WR DTC Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM) Studentships. These AQM Studentships are available to applicants who intend to use AQM in their project (in particular using large-scale datasets). 4 ESRC WR DTC Network Studentships are also available at the University of Sheffield in the interdisciplinary/ challenge pathways. The Network themes will be announced shortly.

AHRC Scholarship

The School will offer one AHRC scholarship for the 2013-14 academic year. Applicants for AHRC support should follow the link here.