Funding Opportunity: Graduate Student Funding (U. of St Andrews)

Deadline for Applications: May 15, 2017

The School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews invites outstanding PhD Candidates to apply for:

TWO School of Modern Languages PhD Scholarships, commencing in September 2017. Each scholarship covers home fees and a stipend of £15k per annum for three years.
The closing date for applications is 15 May 2017 5pm.

The School also invites the strongest applications to:

TWO Forum for Modern Language Studies scholarships (£7,500 each), open to students in any field of Modern Languages who have been admitted to one of the School’s MLitt programmes.

The closing date for applications is 15 May 2017 5pm.
The application forms and process for these awards is found at
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/pg/apply/

Decisions on applications will be made by mid-June.

The School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews is home to a lively international postgraduate community. Around 50 students from all over the world are currently reading for taught or postgraduate degrees in an exceptional variety of areas, including Arabic, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, as well as Language and Linguistics, Medieval Studies and Cultural Identity Studies.

Information on potential supervisors and staff research interests can be found at:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/

Specific enquiries about these scholarships/particular fields of study should be addressed to:

Arabic and Persian Studies – Catherine Cobham (cmc1@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Comparative Literature – Prof Margaret-Anne Hutton (mh80@st-andrews.ac.uk)
French Studies – Dr Elodie Laügt (el40@st-andrews.ac.uk)
German Studies — Dr Andrew Cusack (atc4@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Italian Studies – Dr Rossella Riccobono (rmr8@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Russian, Central and Eastern European Studies – Dr Claire Whitehead (cew12@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Spanish and Latin American Studies – Prof Gustavo San Roman (gfsr@st-andrews.ac.uk)