ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must be Home/EU or International students.

Applicants should either:

have applied to an MPhil programme, for the 2024/25 academic year, offered by the School of Creative Writing, Culture and Communication, ideally starting in October 2024. Programmes currently eligible:

MPhil Comparative Literature

MPhil French

MPhil German

MPhil Iberian and Latin American Studies 

MPhil Japanese

Be currently enrolled on a MPhil programme offered by the School of Creative Writing, Culture and Communication in either your first year full-time or first or second year part-time (current eligible programmes same as the above).

Applicants will also need to demonstrate academic excellence (at least a 2:1 or equivalent in an undergraduate degree) and ensure they have made sufficient financial provision to meet the remaining costs associated with their studies.

BENEFIT:

Funding covers tuition fees up to the equivalent of UK Home enrolment fees (students who are not eligible for home fees will need to pay the difference), for either full time (three years) or part time (five years). 

The overall length of the student’s PhD may be up to four years (full time) or seven years (part time). 

The bursary is paid directly into the awardee’s fee account after they have enrolled each autumn.