Imperial War Museums (IWM), and the University of Warwick are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship from October 2025 under the AHRC’sCollaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP) scheme. This CDP PhD project will offer the opportunity to scrutinise a form of visual propaganda that is relatively under-researched: artistic lithographic print production, both commissioned and independently instigated, during the First World War. This project will be jointly supervised at IWM by Claire Brenard and Dr Bryn Hammond, and the University of Warwick by Dr Pierre Purseigle and Dr Kamila Kociałkowska.

The student will be expected to spend time at both the University of Warwick and IWM, as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP funded students across the UK.

Project Overview

IWM holds a fascinating but under-researched collection of European fine and popular prints gathered by John Crichton-Stewart, the 4th Marquess of Bute. It contains around 3,600 predominantly French prints, representing all aspects of French patriotic print production of the period, most of them lithographs, as well as relief and intaglio prints, and some drawings. It is envisaged that the PhD project will focus on this collection, as well as the museum’s collection of British lithographs of the period, mainly instigated by the government’s War Propaganda Bureau / Department of Information. These include the 1917 series Britain’s Efforts and Ideals by various artists and the work of soldier-artist Gerald Spencer Pryse.

The proposed investigation of these collections will fill in a curiously outstanding gap in the field. Both scholars of France and art historians have paid relatively little attention to lithography. Moreover, in both Britain and France, the cultural history of the conflict has often underplayed the specificities of artistic production in wartime.

The CDP represents a genuine opportunity to make a significant contribution to the field by scrutinising the lithographs of the First World War in their own terms and helping to contextualise the Bute collection within the wider art collection at IWM. It would position the prints in their context of production (commission, design, printmaking) and explore their dissemination and reception at all relevant levels (domestic, local, national, transnational).

Details of Award

• Full-time studentships for 48 months (4 years) or part-time equivalent up to a maximum of 8 years.
• Annual stipend at UKRI rate (plus London weighting of £1000/year)
• Additional maintenance payment (£600/year)
• AHRC Research training grant (£750/year)
• IWM supplementary grant (up to £4,000)

Application

• Open to home and international students
• We encourage applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and career stages
• Applicants should hold a master’s degree in a relevant subject or be able to demonstrate relevant equivalent experience

For full details about the project and the application process, please contact:

• For informal enquiries about the project, please contact the lead co-supervisor Dr Pierre Purseigle (p.purseigle@warwick.ac.uk)
• For queries about the University of Warwick application process, please contact PGHistoryOffice@warwick.ac.uk
• For queries about the interview process, please contact Dr Maria Castrillo (research@iwm.org.uk)
• The University of Warwick and IWM will jointly assess the applications and hold interviews in order to reach a decision

Full project description: It is essential that all applicants read the full project outline for detailed project information and application process: AHRC CDP Lithographs Full Project Outline

Application Deadline: 3 June 2025 at 17:00 (British Standard Time)

Interviews (online): 30 June 2025

As this award will be jointly managed in partnership with the Imperial War Museums, the University of Warwick will be required to share your application and supporting documents with external institutions. All applicants will therefore need to give permission to Warwick to share their personal information in order for their application to be considered. A privacy notice with further information will be circulated following application.

The AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C) brings together eight leading universities across the Midlands, to support research students to become experts in their field and to employ their knowledge and skills in their career destinations.

Midlands4Cities:

• Is open to diverse and challenging approaches to arts and humanities research projects
• Facilitates access to expert supervision across the breadth of arts and humanities research available in the eight M4C universities
• Provides opportunities for training to underpin every student’s research and professional development
• Enables regional, national and international networking with the creative and cultural industries to provide opportunities for placements, fieldwork and collaboration
• Ensures integrity, equality, diversity, and inclusion across the DTP programme

An M4C studentship consists of three elements:

• Payment of tuition fees for UK and international applicants
• A maintenance grant (or stipend), this is a tax-free payment for UK and international applicants
• Additional funding opportunities which include a Research Development Fund (RDF) to support primary research activities, an Engagement Fund (EF) to enable students to undertake placements and other professional development activity and a Cohort Development Fund (CDF) which supports groups of M4C students to design training, development and research activities.

The History Department will select outstanding candidates to nominate for these award competitions. To allow sufficient time for us to consider your application and to work with you to develop it prior to the final closing dates for submission of written materials, we ask that you make contact with a potential supervisor, or the PG Research Director Prof Beat Kümin (b.kumin@warwick.ac.uk) as soon as you can.

It is essential that any applicants who wish to be considered for M4C funding should submit their draft M4C documents to supervisors and cc'd to pghistoryoffice@warwick.ac.uk no later than Wednesday 11th December. This is so that supervisors have a chance to check over proposals and offer feedback prior to the formal M4C submission deadline in January.

You do not need to have references by then, and applicants will have the opportunity to revise applications in the light of any feedback before submitting via the M4C application process in January.

Interviews are likely to take place on the 22nd and 23rd January 2025.

We very much look forward to receiving your enquiries and would encourage potential applications from a broad and diverse range of students.

Some Departmental tips for M4C applicants.

Regional Research Centres and Networks to bear in mind when thinking about regional links

To find out more about writing a PhD project proposal and the M4C application process, a Warwick/Coventry Application Writing Workshop will take place on Saturday 9 November 2024 10:00-13:00 UK time. Please book via: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cadre/m4c/apply/signup/

The workshop will cover both the open competition and CDA applications and we would strongly encourage any applicants to attend. The workshop is not intended to cover basic information on the application process, which is available here: Apply - M4C (midlands4cities.ac.uk) 

Deadline: 13th January 2025 at 12:00noon (GMT)

By the deadline stated above, applicants must also have applied for a place to study at WarwickLink opens in a new window and have ensured that two academic references are submitted using the Midlands4Cities online reference form. There are no exceptions to M4C application or references deadlines.

Guidance, eligibility and application to be made via the M4C website.Link opens in a new window

"Warwick’s Chancellors International Scholarships are awarded to our best international postgraduate researchers, who make invaluable contributions to our vibrant global community of world leading researchers" Baroness Catherine Ashton, University of Warwick Chancellor

For 2025/26 entry Warwick expects to award up to 42 Chancellor's International Scholarships, available to be awarded to the most outstanding International PhD applicants.

Award Details:

Awards made for entry in Autumn 2025 will include the following:

• The full payment of tuition fees
• A maintenance stipend paid at the prevailing UKRI rate for 3.5 years
• A Research, Training and Supporting Grant (RTSG) of £5,000.

Eligibility:

Applicants must:

• Apply for a PhD at the University of Warwick to begin in October 2025;
• Be assessed as 'overseas' for fees purposes. There are no other nationality criteria;
• Be from any discipline at Warwick.
• Scholarships cannot be deferred to the next academic year.

For full details, please visit the Chancellors International Scholarship web pageLink opens in a new window.

Course Application Deadline - 9 December 2024 - 23:59 (GMT)

Scholarship Application Deadline - 12 December 2024 - 23:59 (GMT)

Supporting Document (transcripts and references) Deadline - 7 January 2025 - Time 23:59 (GMT)

As part of the Wheeler History of Travel Writing Programme, the Department of History, through its Global History and Cultures Centre, is inviting applications for up to two PhD studentships for starting in Autumn 2025 in the History of Travel and Travel Writing.

Applicants are expected to show that their project is primarily historical in nature, engaging with travel and travel writing as a historical practice and/or source for historical research. Preference may be given to candidates who adopt a global historical perspective and have the ability to work with sources in more than one language.

In this second round, we'd particularly welcome projects that engage with the history of tourist guidebooks such as Lonely Planet.

Eligibility: Candidates can be of any nationality and must apply for a History PhD at the University of Warwick to begin in Autumn 2025.

Value: Awards made for entry in Autumn 2025 will include the following:

• Full payment of tuition fees at the UK or O/S rate.
• A maintenance stipend paid at the prevailing UKRI rate for 3.5 years.
• A Research, Training and Supporting Grant (RTSG) of up to £3000 per annum for 3.5 years.
• A one off £1500 conference and public engagement fund.

It is essential that applicants identify a potential supervisor and discuss your research proposal with them before application. A list of potential supervisors is available via the History Academic Staff index, but if you are unable to find a suitable supervisor please contact either Dr Guido van Meersbergen or Professor Beat Kümin for advice.

For full details and eligibility, please visit: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/prospective/postgraduate/funding/whtw/

Course Application Deadline – 16 January 2025 at 12:00 noon GMT

Supporting Document* Deadline – 23 January 2025 at 12:00 noon GMT

Interviews for shortlisted candidates are likely to take place on the 3rd and 4th February, times TBC

* Deadline for receipt of both references and any requested transcripts/information

A fully-funded PhD studentship, to begin in September 2025, is available at the University of Warwick’s Department of History, in collaboration with the Warwickshire County Records Office, through the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership.

Based in the historical town of Warwick, Warwickshire County Record Office provides a range of services to help local communities, schools, visitors, and professional researchers to engage with their local heritage and the history of Warwickshire. The archive contains a vast collection of manuscripts, printed sources and artefacts relating to Warwickshire and its people dating from the 12^thcentury to the present day.

This project examines how the people of early modern Warwickshire viewed and represented themselves in relation to their neighbours, the county community, wider political nation, and emerging global connections. It builds upon new research by historians, anthropologists and literary scholars to investigate the construction, representation, interpretation, and definition of local ‘belonging’ betweenc.1500 and 1750. For this purpose, the successful candidate will look for signs of – likely overlapping and competing – markers of identity at the levels of individuals, families, guilds, parishes, boroughs, manors and county.

Full Project information: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/studyemecc/warwickshireidentities/

For more information about the project please contact: Naomi Pullin

The project will be advertised on the M4C website after 14 October: https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/find-a-project/

To find out more about writing a PhD project proposal and the M4C application process, a Warwick/Coventry Application Writing Workshop will take place on Saturday 9 November 2024 10:00-13:00 UK time. Please book via:https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cadre/m4c/apply/signup/

The workshop will cover both the open competition and CDA applications and we would strongly encourage any applicants to attend. The workshop is not intended to cover basic information on the application process, which is available at Apply - M4C (midlands4cities.ac.uk) 

Deadline: 13 January 2025 at 12:00noon (GMT)

By the deadline stated above, applicants must also have applied for a place to study at WarwickLink opens in a new window and have ensured that two academic references are submitted using the Midlands4Cities online reference form. There are no exceptions to M4C application or references deadlines.

Guidance, eligibility and applications to be made via the M4C website.Link opens in a new window

A Consortium of Universities across the west midlands, led by the University of Warwick. MGS supports the professional and personal development of the next generation of social science researchers.

The Midlands Graduate School DTP makes an annual award of a large number of studentships to outstanding applicants across the Social Sciences. The studentships are linked to disciplinary and inter-disciplinary training pathways, and some have a built-in element of collaboration.

For information on submitting an MGS DTP scholarship application please visit the ESRC DTP 'How to Apply' pagesLink opens in a new window. Please also check your eligibility by visiting the Eligibility Requirements pageLink opens in a new window to confirm whether you will be classed as a Home or International applicant under UKRI rules.

Please see the ESRC DTP pages for full guidance notes and eligibility criteria.

Course Application Deadline - Tuesday 21 January 2025 (12:00 GMT)

For 2025/26 entry there will be up to 30 China Scholarship Council - University of Warwick Joint Awards available to outstanding Chinese PGR applicants.

Award Details

Awards made for entry in Autumn 2025 will include the following:

• The University will cover the full payment of overseas tuition fees for the duration of the CSC funding period and a stipend enhancement;
• China Scholarships Council will provide a maintenance stipend and return international airfare between the UK and China

Eligibility

Applicants must:

• Meet the eligibility criteria set out by the CSC.
• Hold a Peoples Republic of China Passport (applicants from Hong Kong or Taiwan are not eligible) and either be permanently resident in China or studying overseas. Those working overseas are not eligible.
• Where students have prior experience of studying overseas (including the UK) it is important to check eligibility rules on the China Scholarship Council website, this includes Current 1st year PhD students and those in year '1' of a 1+3.
• Hold an unconditional* offer for a full time PhD at the University of Warwick commencing in October 2025 OR;
• Be currently enrolled in the first year of a PhD or MPhil/PhD at the University. You must be within the first 12 months of enrolment of a PhD or MPhil/PhD at the University in October 2025.

*Outstanding conditions accepted by CSC are; completion of a degree or ATAS.

Please check the Doctoral College China Scholarship Council funding pageLink opens in a new window for full application details and eligibility criteria.

Warwick Course Application Deadline - 13 January 2025 (23:59 GMT)

Warwick Scholarship Application Deadline - 16 January 2025 (23:59 GMT)

Warwick Unconditional Offer and Supporting Document Deadline - 24 January 2025 (23:59 GMT)

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University-Warwick Joint PhD Programme has been established with the intention of creating opportunities for both institutions and their students to collaborate on high-quality research projects.

The objectives of this programme are:

• To deepen and broaden collaboration between Warwick and SJTU
• To jointly develop future world-leading researchers
• To afford students an opportunity to access a top-tier academic programme and gain international research experience
• To improve research quality and enhance career opportunities for PhD students

Eligible research disciplines include (but are not limited to): Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences and Low Carbon.

The Joint PhD Programme accepts both self-funding and sponsored students, to ensure that the Universities maximise the opportunities of enrolling excellent PhD students on the Programme.

For 2025/26, each institution will admit up to 4 students per year. At Warwick, up to three full scholarships per year are available on a competitive basis to support the most outstanding PhD applicants, with a further one place available for a self-funding student.

Awards include:

• Full payment of tuition fees
• A maintenance stipend paid at the prevailing UKRI rate
• Research Training Support Grant (RTSG) of £5,000 during lifetime of the award

For full details, please visit: https://warwick.ac.uk/global/china/sjtujointphd

Application Deadline - 28 November 2024 at 23:59

The Monash Warwick Alliance Joint PhD is part of Warwick's commitment to developing a successor generation of internationally experienced young researchers. For joint-research teams the contribution of outstanding, highly mobile PhD candidates brings additional capacity to support research collaboration. Alliance Joint PhD candidates, along with post-doctoral researchers, have a unique opportunity to play a key role in the collaboration between teams on opposite sides of the world.

The Alliance Joint PhD enables students to study at two innovative and internationally renowned institutions. You will spend a minimum of one year at Warwick and a minimum of one year at any of Monash's Australian campuses. Travel to the other institution usually occurs in the second year.

Awards made for entry in Autumn 2025 will cover tuition fees; a stipend at the UKRI rate for the years spent at Warwick, and one year funded at the Australian Government rate; and a travel allowance of £3,000

Eligibility

Applicants must:

• It is essential that applicants who wish to be considered for these scholarships apply to one of the Monash Warwick Alliance Joint PhDs to begin in Autumn 2025 AND submit a scholarship application.
• There is no nationality criteria for these scholarships, applicants may be from any discipline where the Monash Warwick Alliance Joint PhD is offered.
• Students currently enrolled on a PhD or MPhil/PhD at the University of Warwick will not be eligible to apply.

Course Application Deadline - 6 January 2025 at 23:59 GMT

Scholarship Application Deadline - 9 January 2025 at 23:59 GMT

Supporting Document Deadline - 16 January 2025 at 23:59 GMT

We are located on the outskirts of the city of Coventry which is recognised as a 'City of Sanctuary'. The 'City of Sanctuary' movement is committed to building a culture of hospitality and welcome, especially for those seeking sanctuary from war and persecution.

Award Details

There are a limited numbers and not all applications will be successful.

• A maintenance stipend paid at the prevailing UKRI rate for 4 years
• The full payment of academic fees
• Research Training and Support Grant of £5,000 (one-off)

For detail guidance notes and eligibility criteria, please visit the Doctoral Access Scholarships – Sanctuary information page.

Course Application Deadline - 24th February 2025 (23:59 GMT)

Scholarship Application Deadline - 27th February 2025 (23:59 GMT)

All supporting documents and evidence must be uploaded by - 7th March 2025 (23:59 GMT).

The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission is responsible for managing the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan. A range of scholarships are available to study in the UK, at either undergraduate, Master's or PhD study.

Applications for Commonwealth PhD scholarships for the 2025/26academic year are now open. The deadline for submitting an application is 16:00 hours BST (15:00 GMT) on15 October 2024. The scholarships are for study in the UK beginning in September/October 2025.

Applications must be made using the online application systemLink opens in a new window.

Applicants are advised to complete and submit applications as early as possible, as the online application system will be very busy in the days leading up to the application deadline.

For further information, please see https://cscuk.fcdo.gov.uk/.

Deadline: 16:00 hours BST on 15 October 2024