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DALHOUSIE PHD RESEARCH EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP

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LOCATION: Canada

Dalhousie will be issuing Dalhousie Research Excellence Scholarships to support a number of emerging research leaders from the Indigenous community (with priority given to Mi’kmaw applicants) and the African Nova Scotian community. When completing your application, please self-identify and provide your consent for FGS to use your information in the award process.

ELIGIBILITY:

You must have an intent to start (enroll in or transfer to) a PhD program at Dalhousie in January, May, or September of 2025 or January of 2026.

Admission into a PhD program is not required prior to applying for this award. However, scholarship funds will only be administered to successful applicants after they are admitted to and registered in their intended program of study. 

To maintain eligibility to hold this award, recipients must apply to additional major funding competitions for which they are eligible within the first two years of starting their PhD Program. These include the Research NS Scotia Scholar, Tri-Agency CGS-D and/or Vanier competitions.  While not an eligibility requirement, you are strongly encouraged to complete the Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship Priority Area Justification as part of your harmonized scholarship application. This will allow for your application to be considered for a broader range of awards.

Applications are submitted through the Harmonized Scholarship Process. Your department will review your application and nominate you for an award if you meet the appropriate criteria. 

BENEFIT:

Value: $35,000 per year for up to four years

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COMMONWEALTH SPLIT-SITE PHD SCHOLARSHIPS

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Application Deadline: 16:00 GMT on Monday 16 December. 

LOCATION: United Kingdom

Commonwealth Split-site Scholarships are for candidates from low and middle income countries, as classified by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), in the Commonwealth, to conduct research at a university in the UK for 12 months.

ELIGIBILITY:

To apply for this scholarship, candidates must:

Be a citizen of or have been granted refugee status by an eligible Commonwealth country.

Be permanently resident in an eligible Commonwealth country.

Be registered for a PhD at a university in an eligible Commonwealth country by the time the scholarship starts in September 2025.

Ensure that an institutional or departmental link exists between the home university and proposed UK university. This link must be greater than simply a collaboration between individuals – see section on ‘Tenure and placement’ below for further details. Both supervisors must provide a supporting statement with further details of the link to ensure the application is eligible.

Be available to start academic study in the UK in September 2025.

By September 2025, hold a first degree of at least upper second-class (2:1) honours standard, or a lower second-class degree and a relevant postgraduate qualification (usually a Master’s degree).

Be unable to afford to study in the UK without this scholarship.

Have provided all supporting documentation in the required format.

BENEFIT:

Each scholarship provides:

Approved airfare from the Scholar’s home country to the UK and return at the end of the award (the CSC will not reimburse the cost of fares for dependants, nor the cost of journeys made before the award is confirmed).

Approved tuition fees: full fees are covered by agreement between the CSC and the UK university, and Scholars are not liable to pay for any part of the tuition fee.

Stipend (living allowance) at the rate of £1,378 per month, or £1,690 per month for those at universities in the London metropolitan area (rates quoted at current levels).

Warm clothing allowance, where applicable.

Study travel grant towards the cost of study-related travel within the UK or overseas.

If a Scholar is widowed, divorced, or a single parent, child allowance of £590 per month for the first child, and £146 per month for the second and third child under the age of 16, if their children are living with them at the same address in the UK.

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