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 2014. 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 not offer AHRC scholarships until further notice. For information on the AHRC scholarships. For information on the AHRC scholarships, please click here.