Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarships for Postgraduate Research

These scholarships within the School of Human and Health Sciences are aimed at the very best Huddersfield graduates and are available from October 2022 for either full-time or part-time MSc by Research and PhD programs. They provide a 100% waiver of fees for UK domiciled students. (International students receive a waiver of the equivalent of home fees and therefore pay only the difference between home and international fees.) The best two MSc applications and best two PhD applications will also receive a £3000 per year bursary for full time study or £1,500 per year for part time study as well as the fee waiver.  These bursaries are only available to exceptional candidates.   

We positively encourage applications from groups under-represented in postgraduate research, including (but not limited to) women, LGBTQ+ candidates, BAME candidates, candidates with disabilities, applicants with caring responsibilities, and care leavers. 

All VC scholarships are subject to competitive application and application is open to candidates who meet the following criteria.

Eligibility criteria

• A first-class honours degree

• A distinction at taught Master’s

or

• Have been recommended on the basis of their Master’s by Research by their supervisor and can demonstrate strongly positive comments from the Master’s examiners (applicants must agree for us to review their examination outcome documents).

and

• Have graduated from the University of Huddersfield in the last three years. If applicants are due to graduate in the current academic year, then any offer will be conditional on degree outcome.

The scholarships are available from October 2022. Both fee-waivers and fee-waivers with bursaries are available for the standard registration period only. For doctoral awards this will be either 3 years full-time or 6 years-part time and for Master’s by Research awards this will be either 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time. The fee waiver will not apply to any research undertaken outside of this standard registration period, including any write-up period.

Successful applicants need to submit a high-quality research proposal which aligns with the key research themes of the Research Centres within the School of Human and Health Sciences. The research proposal should be supported by two potential supervisors with capacity to supervise.