Warburg Institute Scholarships
Rubinstein Scholarship
Applications are now CLOSED for the 2024/25 intake.
The Rubinstein Scholarship is open to home students who have been offered a place on the Institute’s MPhil/PhD Programme. It covers home fees and provides an annual £18,000 maintenance payment for a maximum of three years. This scholarship is not available to distance learning students.
To be eligible to apply students had to have been offered a place on the PhD programme and be categorised as an home student.
The scholarship will be awarded on the basis of academic merit.
The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday, 26th April 2024.
External Scholarships
The London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) award
Applications open on 27 November 2023.
The London Arts and Humanities Partnership has up to 90 cross-institutional studentships per year available for postgraduate research students studying arts and humanities disciplines. Applications for 2024/2025 open on 27 November 2023, with a deadline on 26 January 2024 (5pm). The competition is open to home and international students on both the full-time and part-time tracks. For further information about the scholarship, including eligibility criteria, please visit the LAHP website or sign-up for one of their information sessions.
Please note that only candidates who have already secured admission into the Warburg PhD programme are eligible to apply for a LAHP award. If you wish to apply, please follow these steps:
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Identify a prospective supervisor and contact them informally to see if they might be interested in supporting your research. If yes, then,
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Send a formal expression of interest to the PhD programme director (sara.miglietti@sas.ac.uk) mentioning "LAHP award" in the subject of your email. Please attach your CV, a summary of your proposed research (ca. 1,000 words), a writing sample (no more than 4,000 words), the name(s) of your prospective supervisor(s), and a brief statement of why you want to study at the Warburg
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Suitable candidates will be invited to submit a full application through the SAS application portal. They will also be invited to attend an online application-writing workshop in December 2023.
Commonwealth Scholarships
Commonwealth Scholarships for citizens of developed Commonwealth countries (Australia, The Bahamas, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Cyprus, Malta, and New Zealand) are offered for PhD and split-site PhD study in the UK. These scholarships are funded by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Scottish Government, in conjunction with UK universities.
All subject areas are eligible, although the CSC’s selection criteria give priority to applications that demonstrate the strongest potential for strategic impact.
Marshall Scholarships
For U.S. citizens only, Marshall Scholarships are mainly funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and are overseen by the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the UK. Up to forty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at UK institutions in any field of study.
Aga Khan Foundation
The Aga Khan Foundation provides a limited number of scholarships each year for postgraduate studies to outstanding students from developing countries who have no other means of financing their studies. Scholarships are awarded on a 50% grant : 50% loan basis through a competitive application process once a year in June or July. The Foundation gives priority to requests for Master's level courses but is also willing to consider applications for PhD programmes.
The Klesch Collection Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Painting
The Klesch Collection offers grants towards the yearly cost of university fees to graduate students who have been accepted into a full-time Art History MA or PhD course of study worldwide, beginning the next academic year. PhD students are welcome to apply for any year in their programme. Applications will be considered from students who will focus/are focusing their studies on European and British painting of the Renaissance and Baroque periods (c. 1400 – 1700).
Loans
UK PhD Government Loans
From September 2018, the UK government will offer loans of up to £25,000 to support students wishing to undertake a PhD who are not in receipt of UK Research Council funding.
These loans will be available to English-resident students and support all types of doctorate degree at universities within the UK. Although you are not eligible for this loan if you already receive UK Research Council funding, you can combine this loan with other funding sources.
Federal Direct Loans for US Students
Federal Stafford loans are operated by the US Government to assist US citizens with the costs of studying.
Support Fund
Warburg Student Support Fund
The Institute has a small hardship grant that both MA and PhD students can apply to. The maximum amount of funding available per student is likely to be a few hundred pounds.
The Warburg Hardship Grant provides discretionary financial assistance for all students – particularly to meet extra costs that cannot be met from other sources of support. The grant is intended to alleviate financial hardship.
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Travel Fund
Warburg Institute Travel Fund for existing Warburg MPhil/PhD Students
The Institute has a small Student Travel Fund which provides grants for research visits and when giving a paper at a conference for both full-time and part-time Warburg MPhil/PhD students.