Scholarships

The Reid Family Scholarship (Widening Participation)

We support Scottish students from Widening Participation backgrounds to help with the financial pressures of living costs and tuition fees so you can achieve your full potential.

ESRC-funded studentship opportunities: Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science's Scottish Doctoral Training Partnership provides studentship awards each year to students to allow them to do a funded PhD in the social sciences.

Stirlingshire Educational Trust

Grants available to persons who have been resident in Stirlingshire, either currently or in the past, for a period of at least 5 consecutive years or have been born there.

Commonwealth Masters Scholarships

The agency-nominated Master’s programme is one of three Master’s programmes offered by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.

Commonwealth PhD Scholarships

Commonwealth PhD Scholarships are for applicants from least developed countries and fragile states looking for full-time doctoral study at a UK university.

The Anne Wingate Paterson Scholarship

Awards will be made to individuals with a place on a postgraduate programme for the study and prevention of child abuse and neglect. 

Waste/Land/Futures: intergenerational relations in places of abandonment and renewal across Europe

An exciting PhD opportunity to work on the Volkswagen Foundation-funded project ‘Waste/Land/Futures: Intergenerational Relations in Places of Abandonment and Renewal across Europe.’ Together with researchers from the UK, Germany, Austria and Romania, the project will study communities in places of abandonment, loss and renewal in western and eastern Europe.

Extra Time Award

This scholarship is funded by the Scottish Football Association and the Scottish Government to research the Scottish FA’s Extra Time programme for a three-year PhD project.

Gordon Social Innovation Scholarship - Ecosystems Project

Supports the development of social innovation research capacity at the University of Stirling by funding one PhD studentship.

Gordon Social Innovation Scholarship – Power Project

This scholarship will support the development of social innovation research capacity at the University of Stirling.