University of Stirling Postgraduate Scholarships and funding

Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursaries 2013-14

The University of Stirling has been allocated four Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursaries for academic year 2013/14. 

Regulations

Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursaries are awarded for the payment of tuition fees for one-year taught postgraduate Masters courses offered by a Scottish university.

The value of a Bursary for 2013-14 will be £3,750. If the course fees are under £3,750 the Trust will pay the lower fee amount. If the course fees exceed £3,750, the Trust will only cover fees up to £3,750. 

Eligibility and selection criteria for applicants

1. To be eligible, applicants must:

• be of Scottish birth OR
• be of Scottish extraction (have at least one parent born in Scotland) OR
• have been resident in Scotland for a period of at least three years for the purpose of secondary or tertiary education

2. Candidates will be selected on the basis of their merit and promise, and of their financial circumstances.

3. The most important selection criteria should be those envisaged by Andrew Carnegie: that the candidates be qualified and deserving, industrious and ambitious, and that they would derive particular benefit from a one-year taught postgraduate degree, which they would be unlikely to attend without the award.

Eligibility criteria for taught Masters

4. Bursaries must support taught postgraduate Masters that will enhance students’ employability in their chosen field, develop their specialist skills, or supplement existing ones, thus bettering their career prospects. The Bursaries should not be considered as a stepping stone for further study at PhD level and preference will be given to candidates with a clear career plan outside academia.

5. One-year taught postgraduate courses may be attended on a part-time basis over two consecutive years.

6. Bursaries that have been allocated to a university, but not awarded to any student, will be cancelled, unless the university can award the bursaries to students starting later in the academic year (January for example).

7. Bursaries

• can only be awarded before students start the course
• are not intended for courses awarding a certificate or a diploma

8. Should a student withdraw from the Masters programme during the academic year, any resulting balance or reimbursement due on fees must be repaid by the university to the Carnegie Trust.

Application process

Download the Carnegie Cameron Bursary Application Form. Applications should be submitted, either in hard copy or by email attachment, to the Head of Student Administration. Those submitted after the deadline will not be considered.

Applicants must already have been offered and accepted a place to study on a postgraduate taught programme at the University of Stirling in order to be considered, and must meet their conditions of offer in full before the award of a bursary can be confirmed.

Deadline

28 June 2013

Contact

Head of Student Administration, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA

email: headofstudentadmin@stir.ac.uk

Decisions

We intend to notify the successful candidates by the end of July. If a successful candidate has already secured other funding, the bursary will then be offered to the next applicant on the reserve list. Bursaries must be taken up in the year awarded and cannot be deferred.

New SFC Highly Skilled Workforce Scholarships

The University of Stirling is pleased to announce new funding opportunities to support 42 taught postgraduate places during 2013/14. For each place, the funding provided by the Scottish Funding Council will cover the full cost of tuition across a range of courses. The programmes supported by this funding have been selected by the Scottish Funding Council as those that will supply graduates with relevant knowledge and skills relevant to Scotland’s key economic sectors.  These programmes all collaborate with industry and third sector partners in terms of course design, teaching and/or placement opportunities. Stirling is a member of the Making the Most of Masters consortium with the universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen, and this will provide students with opportunities for undertaking their dissertations with business organisations as well as providing opportunities for their further career development. Please refer to  http://www.mastersprojects.ac.uk/

Successful applicants for these scholarships will substantially increase the skill-base among Scotland’s workforce and will support further development of links between academia and industry.

The eligible courses are:

• Sustainable Aquaculture
• Sustainable Aquaculture (Named Degree Outcomes)
• Aquatic Pathobiology
• Aquatic Veterinary Studies
• Marine Biotechnology
• Energy Management
• Energy and the Environment
• International Energy Law and Policy
• Environmental Management
• Environment, Heritage and Policy
• Health and Wellbeing of the Older Person
• Dementia Studies

Eligibility

The Scottish Funding Council has attached specific eligibility criteria to the postgraduate funded places. The new places are open to applicants domiciled in Scotland and the EU and most courses are available for part-time study. Further information on residence conditions can be found by referring to the Student Awards Agency for Scotland.

How to apply

Interested students should apply for a taught postgraduate programme using the online application form. Further information on applying is available at: How to apply. As SFC funded places are limited, you will be automatically considered when you accept an unconditional offer and you will receive confirmation of your place on the allocation list from the Admissions Office via email.  Successful candidates will be notified via email by the Admissions Office.

Funding

The SFC funding is limited to 42 places and will cover the full cost of tuition only. Information on the cost of living and other financial support can be found here: Postgraduate financial information

Stirling Management School Postgraduate Scholarship

Availability: Applications from students in the United Kingdom, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America and Europe will be considered.  Students must hold, or expect to obtain an offer or an unconditional offer of a place to study one of the full time Masters Programmes offered by the Stirling Management School for entry in September 2013.

The Scholarship is open to those students wishing to study International Accounting & Finance, Banking and Finance, Human Resource Management and Socio-Economic Development, International Business, International Business & Socio Economic Development, Energy Management, Environmental Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, Management, Marketing, MBA in Social Marketing and Retail Management.

Applications may be submitted for the Scholarship along with the course application, but only those obtaining and accepting a place on the course will be entered into the Scholarship competition.

Number of awards: 3

Value:  £3000 will be awarded to students who wish to study full-time on a selection of taught Masters Programmes offered by the Stirling Management School.

Deadline:  The closing date for receipt of scholarship applications is 12^th June 2013.  Successful students will be notified of the outcome via e-mail in July 2013.

How to apply

Complete the Stirling MSc Scholarship Application form

• why you are applying for this Scholarship
• why a Scholarship would help you
• which modules of your Masters programme are of particular interest to you and why
• what would you like to be able to do and achieve as a result of successful completion of the programme
• your educational or professional aims for the five years after you complete the programme.

School contact:

Please e-mail completed applications and statements/essays to: jane.glen@stir.ac.uk

Stirling Master of Business Administration (MBA) Scholarship

Availability: Applications from students in the United Kingdom, India, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America and Europe will be considered.  Students must hold, or expect to obtain an offer or an unconditional offer of a place on the full time Stirling MBA for entry in September 2013. Applications may be submitted for the Scholarship along with the course application, but only those obtaining and accepting a place on the course will be entered into the Scholarship competition.

Number of awards: 2

Value: Two scholarships of £7700 each will be awarded to students joining The Stirling MBA in September 2013.  These scholarships are funded by the Stirling Management School and meet 50% of the overseas fee rate.  This means that the successful candidates will pay a course fee reduced by £7700 in September 2013.

Deadline: The closing date for receipt of scholarship applications is the 12^th June 2013. Successful students will be notified of the outcome via email in July 2013. 

How to apply

Complete the Stirling MBA Scholarship application form, and provide a 1000 word statement/essay on the following:

• why you are applying for these Scholarships
• why a Scholarship would help you
• which modules of the MBA are of particular interest to you and why
• what your expectations are in terms of learning outcomes
• what would you like to be able to do and achieve as a result of successful completion of the course; your educational or professional aims for the five years after you complete the course.

School contact:

Please email completed applications and statements to: jane.glen@stir.ac.uk

MSc Energy Management Scholarship

Availability: Applications from students in North America will be considered. Students must hold, or expect to obtain an offer or an unconditional offer of a place to study MSc Energy Management offered by the Stirling Management School for entry in September 2013.

The Scholarship is open to those students wishing to study MSc Energy Management. Applications may be submitted for the Scholarship along with the course application, but only those obtaining and accepting a place on the course will be entered into the Scholarship competition.

Number of awards: 1

Value:  £2000 will be awarded to students who wish to study full-time on the MSc Energy Management offered by the Stirling Management School.

Deadline:  The closing date for receipt of scholarship applications is 12^th June 2013.   Successful students will be notified of the outcome via e-mail in July 2013.

How to apply

Complete the Stirling MSc Scholarship Application form, and provide a 1000 word statement/essay on the following:

• why you are applying for this Scholarship
• why a Scholarship would help you
• which modules of your Masters programme are of particular interest to you and why
• what would you like to be able to do and achieve as a result of successful completion of the programme
• your educational or professional aims for the five years after you complete the programme.

School contact:

Please e-mail completed applications and statements/essays to: i.a.lange@stir.ac.uk

MSc in Behavioural Science Scholarship

Level:  Taught Postgraduate

School:  Stirling Management School

Availability: Applications from students in the United Kingdom, Europe, India, Sub-Saharan Africa and South America will be considered.  Students must hold, or expect to obtain an offer or an unconditional offer of a place on the full time MSc in Behavioural Science for entry in September 2013. Applications may be submitted for the Scholarship along with the course application, but only those obtaining and accepting a place on the course will be entered into the Scholarship competition.

Number of awards:  1

Value:  A NEW Scholarship, with a value of £2500 will be awarded to students who wish to study the NEW MSc in Behavioural Science offered by the Stirling Management School.

Deadline:  The closing date for receipt of scholarship applications is the 12^th June 2013. Successful students will be notified of the outcome via email in July 2013. 

How to apply

Complete the SMS Scholarship application form, and provide a 1000 word statement/essay on the following:

• why you are applying for these Scholarships
• why a Scholarship would help you
• which modules of the MSc are of particular interest to you and why
• what your expectations are in terms of learning outcomes
• what would you like to be able to do and achieve as a result of successful completion of the course; your educational or professional aims for the five years after you complete the course.

School contact: Please email completed applications and statements to: sism@stir.ac.uk

International Sports Scholarship Programme

The University of Stirling provides the ideal environment for talented athletes to develop and flourish in their chosen sport, providing expert support and a comprehensive collection of world-class facilities set on our scenic campus.

Our International Sports Scholarship Programme is one of the largest high performance sports programmes in the UK and has supported more than 700 student athletes since its inception in 1981, sending athletes to Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games.

Winning Students sports scholarships

Talented athletes may be eligible to apply for a Winning Students sports scholarship. The national student sports scholarship programme provides funding support of up to £5,500 per annum. Current and prospective students should submit the nomination form before March 31 each year to be considered for support in the following academic year. The scholarships only support students competing in certain sports – please visit the Winning Students website for full information.

Karen Napier Scholarship - MSc Investment Analysis

The Karen Napier Scholarships are generously funded by the Karen Napier Charity in memory of Karen, a graduate of the MSc in Investment Analysis. Each Scholarship will meet the programme fees at the Home/EU rate and will offer £3,500 toward maintenance. In addition, the Accounting and Finance Division will meet the remainder of the programme fees in the event that a Scholarship is awarded to an overseas fee paying applicant.

Who can apply?

Applicants may be of any nationality and must hold or expect to obtain an offer of a place on the full time MSc in Investment Analysis for entry in September 2013. Applications may be submitted for the Scholarships along with the programme application, but only those obtaining a place on the course will be entered into the Scholarship competition.

How to apply

• Complete the MSc Karen Napier Scholarship Form‌, ensuring that all sections are answered legibly.
• Statement of 500 words on why a Scholarship would help you, and what your career or educational aims are for the five year period after you graduate from the Investment Analysis course.
• The closing date for receipt of applications is 5pm GMT on 12 June 2013.
• Please note that the Scholarships will be allocated in July and therefore if you are applying both for the Scholarships and the Investment Analysis programme close to the 12 June deadline, you should ensure that your programme application is complete.

AHRC Block Grant Partnership for 2011-13

The Universities of Stirling and Strathclyde have been awarded an AHRC Block Grant Partnership for 2011-13. Applications for postgraduate studentships are invited in the following eligible subject areas for 2013-14:

Doctoral awards

• English Language and Literature
• History

Professional Preparation Masters awards

• Creative Writing
• Journalism and Publishing Studies
• Librarianship, Archives, Record Management and Information Science [nb only Strathclyde courses are eligible for this]

Studentships can be held at either University and there are opportunities for joint supervision of doctoral projects.

Deadline for studentship applications is Friday 22 March 2013.

Full details are available at www.artsandhumanitiesconsortium.org.uk, or contact:

Sheilah Greig
Graduate Studies Administrator
School of Arts and Humanities
University of Stirling
Stirling
FK9 4LA

E-mail: ahrcbgpapplications@stir.ac.uk

Santander Master’s Scholarship

Level: Postgraduate (Taught)

School: Stirling Graduate School

Availability: Applicants who are permanently resident in the following countries may apply: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Russia, UK, Uruguay, USA. 

Applicants must hold, or expect to obtain an offer or an unconditional offer of a place to study one of the following Masters Programmes for entry in September 2013: International Accounting & Finance, Investment Analysis, Banking and Finance, Human Resource Management and Socio-Economic Development, International Business, International Business & Socio Economic Development, Energy Management, Environmental Economics, Finance, Human Resource Management, Management, Marketing, Retail Management.

Number of awards: 3 awards available for courses commencing in 2013

Value:  £5000 per annum for 1 year.

Deadline:  12 June 2013

School contact: sgs@stir.ac.uk

• Information sheet
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Santander MBA Scholarship

Level: Postgraduate (Taught)

School: Stirling Graduate School

Availability: Applicants who are permanently resident in the following countries may apply: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Russia, UK, Uruguay, USA.

Applicants must hold, or expect to obtain an offer or an unconditional offer of a place to study the Stirling MBA.

Number of awards: 4 awards available for courses commencing in 2013

Value:  £5000 per annum for 1 year.

Deadline:  The closing date for receipt of scholarship applications is 12 June 2013

School contact: sgs@stir.ac.uk

• Apply now

Santander Behavioural Science Scholarship

Level: Postgraduate (Taught)

School: Stirling Graduate School

Availability: Applicants who are permanently resident in the following countries may apply: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Germany, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Russia, UK, Uruguay, USA.

Applicants must hold, or expect to obtain an offer or an unconditional offer of a place to study the MSc Behavioural Science Scholarship.

Number of awards: 2 awards available for courses commencing in 2013

Value:  £5000 per annum for 1 year.

Deadline:  The closing date for receipt of scholarship applications is 12 June 2013

School contact: sgs@stir.ac.uk

• Apply now

Institutional innovation and the housing pathways of young householders on Scottish Hebridean Islands

This is a 3-year research award from the ESRC DTC, commencing in October 2013. A criterion for receipt of this award is to have Masters level social science research training from

• Either a MSc in social science research methods
• Or another Masters qualification together with appropriate research experience. 

Supervisors: Dr Madhu Satsangi and Professor Douglas Robertson, in collaboration with the Rural Housing Service.

Research summary: This research will critically examine the applicability of the’ housing pathway’ concept to the housing opportunities and decisions of young householders on Scottish Hebridean islands. These opportunities will be examined in light of the research evidence that the islands comprise particularly constrained rural housing markets and with specific reference to Our Island Home, a three-year programme of innovations in housing supply for young islanders (http://www.ruralhousingscotland.org/Rural_Housing_Service/Our_Island_Home.html). The research will make a new contribution to the literature through its focus on neo-feudal, island environments. The research methods will include documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews and invite innovation in data gathering techniques from young islanders participating in this housing supply innovation. It is anticipated that the research will be communicated to academic audiences via conference presentations and refereed journal submissions. Further, the research has direct policy/practice outcomes as it allows the project partners, the Rural Housing Service, a means of reflexive engagement through providing an independent commentary on project implementation. As a consequence, it is anticipated that dissemination will also engage with a wider policy and practice audience.

ESRC has residential criteria for awards, shown at http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/guidance/postgraduates/prospective-students/eligibility/index.aspx

Your covering letter should show that you meet the research training and residential criteria.

The student will be expected to undertake field work on the Scottish Hebridean islands. 

Deadline: Closing Date: May 17^th, 2013

How to apply: Applications should include a covering letter, a full CV and a 500 word summary research proposal. The proposal will be assessed for candidates’:

• Awareness of relevant research literature
• Capacity for rigour and creativity in the design of research methods 

Applications should be sent to:

Ms Linda Campbell,
School of Applied Social Science,
University of Stirling,
Stirling,
FK9 4LA
l.c.t.campbell@stir.ac.uk

You are invited to contact Dr Madhu Satsangi with any questions. Email: madhu.satsangi@stir.ac.uk (0)1786 467986

Risk and Resilience in Scottish Charities

This is a four-year “1+3” research award from the ESRC DTC, commencing in October 2013. A criterion for receipt of this award is to have at least a 2:1 honours degree in a related discipline, with an interest in both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Availability

Risk is an everyday part of charitable activity. Charity trustees are responsible for managing risk so that their charities achieve their objectives and protect charities' funds and assets. In Scotland, the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) has responsibility for implementing The Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.

This PhD project will focus on the ways in which "risk" is dealt with by the regulator, and experienced by charities. It will explore the extent to which charity data could be used to measure risk, to predict negative outcomes, and it will test the extent to which these measures are an accurate reflection of the qualitative risk within the charity.

The project will build on literatures within an inter-disciplinary literature on non-profit governance, volunteering, risk and organisational resilience. There is a large literature exploring the factors that contribute to organisations being well run. The move in this literature from prescriptive "good practice" to studying empirically how nonprofit organisations and the volunteers running them operate suggests that it is important to study both the regulator's definitions of risk and how this is operationalized in charities themselves. OSCR is concerned with identifying the early warning signs of risk to charities and charitable assets. This PhD project will use a mixed-methods approach, studying both the regulator and individual charities, to bridge this gap, contributing to the development of robust risk measures while testing the extent to which they capture the underlying processes within charities in different situations.

Deadline: 17^th May, 2013

How to apply: ESRC has residential criteria for awards, shown at http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/guidance/postgraduates/prospective-students/eligibility/index.aspx.

Successful applicants will be expected to undertake the MSc or MRes in Applied Social Research at the University of Stirling in their first year. Applicants with an appropriate Masters degree may be able to enter directly into the PhD.

Your covering letter should show that you meet the qualification and residential criteria.
Applications should include a covering letter, a full CV, two references (at least one of which should be an academic reference), and a 500 word summary research proposal. The proposal will be assessed for candidates’:

• Awareness of relevant research literature
• Familiarity with quantitative research methods
• Familiarity with qualitative research methods
• Interest in the topic area.

Applications should be sent to:

Ms Linda Campbell,
School of Applied Social Science,
University of Stirling,
Stirling,
FK9 4LA
Email: l.c.t.campbell@stir.ac.uk

Contact: You are invited to contact Dr Alasdair Rutherford with any questions. Email: Alasdair.rutherford@stir.ac.uk (0)1786 466409

ESRC PhD Studentship

Behaviour change in action: understanding agency and contextualised interaction in benefit recipients’ encounters with street level advisers

Supervisors:  Dr Sharon Wright and Professor Isobel Anderson 

Deadline: 31 May, 2013

Research summary:  This PhD studentship is designed to advance in-depth understandings of benefit recipients’ behaviour as lived experience.  Recognising that a person’s subjective reality involves being influenced and influencing others simultaneously, the study will examine the ways in which agency is experienced and exercised by benefit recipients within an intersubjective context. The focus is on investigating dynamic processes of interaction, tracking benefit recipients as they negotiate advice encounters with a range of street-level bureaucrats. The methods are ethnographic, including qualitative interviewing of benefit recipients and, where possible, the advisers they interact with. The intention is to observe directly the advice encounters of research participants, offering a distinct methodology capable of generating authentic insights into the interpersonal dynamics of conditionality in practice.  This innovative project will build on two main bodies of work. First, it contributes to studies of agency in social policy, which have highlighted the importance of context in influencing motivation, choice and action. Second, it draws on the newly re-invigorated field of street-level bureaucracy studies, which focuses on the implementation of policy in its enacted form to understand the tensions experienced by front-line welfare advisers in their daily work. In relation to both types of research participant – benefit recipients and advisers – the focus is on understanding their interpretations of agency as lived experience.  

Research questions:

• How are behavioural change/conditionality measures experienced and accomplished in practice?
• What are users’ experiences of conditionality and how are these shaped by processes of interaction and in relation to interdependencies?
• How do front-line advisers view conditionality as lived experience in their working lives?
• How do processes of intersubjective interaction bring conditionality into being?

The studentship

• This is a 36 month studentship, commencing in October 2013 and finishing in September 2016.  It will provide a stipend per annum (£13,726 in 2013-2014) plus tuition fees.
• The studentship is funded by the ESRC and linked to the project ‘Sanctions, Support and Behaviour Change:  Understanding the Role and Impact of Welfare Conditionality’.  It will be supported by the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science.
• Applicants are expected to have an Upper Second or First Class undergraduate degree in a social science, or related, subject and must have completed recognised ESRC research training or equivalent in social policy, sociology, economics or a related discipline.
• ESRC studentships are open to UK residents on a +3, full-time basis only – for information on eligibility see: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/PFG_DTC_(June_2011)_tcm8-14766.pdf

How to apply:

Applications should include a covering letter, a full CV, two references (at least one of which should be an academic reference) and a 500 word summary research proposal.  The proposal will be assessed for candidates’:

• Awareness of relevant research literature
• Familiarity with qualitative research methods
• Interest in the topic area

Applications should be sent to:

Ms Linda Campbell,
School of Applied Social Science,
University of Stirling, Stirling,
FK9 4LA

l.c.t.campbell@stir.ac.uk

Further information:  You are invited to contact Dr Sharon Wright with any questions:   

sharon.wright@stir.ac.uk  01786 467688  www.stir.ac.uk/social-science

Mobility Scholarships

As part of the University’s internationalisation strategy to build long term links overseas, Santander Universities are kindly supporting a number of mobility grants to allow students to travel overseas to further their study/research.

Numbers of Scholarships

1award of £2,500

10 awards of £1,000

Eligibility

These mobility scholarships are to be awarded to students to study/research overseas. They may be used to support activity in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico or Uruguay, China, Germany, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, USA, Venezuela in this instance.

• The study / research activity funded must be completed no later than end of academic year 2013-14
• Recipients will be required to submit a short impact report within an agreed time frame
• Applicants should include a summary of the origin, destination and purpose of travel
• If more applications are received than there are grants available, selection will be made on the basis of those that best strengthen and support the development of strategic institutional partnerships in the region

Please note that all applications must receive final sign off by the Head of School or Head of Division at the University of Stirling.

Timetable for application/ allocation

• Application deadline: 21 June 2013
• Notification of outcome: 3 July 2013

Application procedure

To apply candidates must fill out the application form.