The University of Stirling is part of a consortium made up of eight Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) within Scotland, known as the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scotland (AHRC DTP Scotland), which has been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to support postgraduate studentships and training in the Arts and Humanities.

Under the Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) scheme, the consortium – comprised of the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Stirling, Strathclyde and Glasgow School of Art – will consider applications for doctoral studentship awards in the majority of Arts and Humanities subjects. The AHRC has awarded 200 funded studentships across the Consortium for five years (2014 to 2019).

The AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scotland supports doctoral research and training in the following Arts and Humanities disciplines, of which the following can be studied at Stirling.

Creative Writing
Cultural Studies and Popular Culture
English Language and Literature
Film History, Theory and Criticism
History
Interpreting and Translation
Journalism and Publishing
Languages
Law and Legal Studies
Library and Information Studies
Linguistics
Media and communication studies
Music
Philosophy
Scottish Literature
Television History, Theory and Criticism
Theology, Divinity and Religion

Deadline: Monday 22 December 2014

Further details:
http://www.stir.ac.uk/