The British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarships 2025 is a programme run by SGSAH with funding from the British Council to enable international research collaborations between PhD and Early Career Researchers and Scottish HEIs and Scotland-based academic mentors, and external organisations, thematically focused on environmental arts and humanities and their interdisciplinary connections.
The overall aim of the programme is to promote the role and interventions of the environmental arts and humanities, and the arts and cultural sector, in addressing the climate emergency, and their capacity for interdisciplinary research within STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics) contexts. The programme will create research opportunities and international mobility which will develop and support new approaches to address the global challenge of climate crisis, and support sustainable research and cultural interchanges within and beyond the arts and, humanities and cultural sectors.
Eligibility
The Programme is for PhD and early career researchers (ECRs) registered at or graduated from any non-UK university who are working within the environmental arts and humanities to come to Scotland to work with an academic mentor and access networks and resources of a host HEI (Higher Education Institute) in 2025.
All applicants must be currently registered for a PhD, or graduated with a PhD, which broadly falls under Arts & Humanities subject areas. These subject areas are detailed by the AHRC. Research proposals must also fall into Arts & Humanities subject areas. For any interdisciplinary PhDs, at least 50% of the project must fall within Arts & Humanities disciplines. The programme strongly encourages research project proposals that have interdisciplinarity approaches beyond the Arts & Humanities.
For the purposes of the Programme, ECRs must be within 1 year of notification of award of their PhD (under exceptional circumstances this can be extended to 2 years – see the scheme Guidelines for full detail).
The SGSAH HEIs are:
Abertay University
Edinburgh Napier University
The Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow Caledonian University
Heriot-Watt University
Queen Margaret University
Robert Gordon University
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
University of Aberdeen
University of Dundee
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
University of St Andrews
University of Stirling
University of Strathclyde
University of the Highlands & Islands
University of the West of Scotland
The scholarships will take place between April and July 2025. It is expected that successful applicants – for environmental and economic reasons – only travel once to Scotland.
Scholarship proposals may include in-person and hybrid aspects and can last from six weeks (ie 45 days) to three months (ie 90 days), including the 10-day cohort programme in April/May 2025. The programme includes an in-person, hybrid and online cohort development programme.
The scholarships are for PhD and ECRs in the Arts and Humanities to benefit from a concerted period of time spent in Scotland in 2025. To make the application, candidates need to identify an academic mentor and a Host HEI.
Each applicant submits a budget that includes travel, accommodation, subsistence, visa costs, and additional funding for particular needs (e.g. childcare, access requirements, relating to disability).
SGSAH EARTH Scholarships 2025 application guidelines
Deadline: 1 November 2024
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