School of Arts, Languages and Cultures School Studentships
If you are liaising with a potential supervisee who may interested in applying for this funding competition, please direct them to the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures PhD Studentships funding page.
A number of School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Studentships are available each year to incoming PGRs holding offers for any SALC PhD programme, listed below.
The studentships cover a full programme (3.5 years full time, or 7 years part time), to a value of:
- Tuition fees (home or overseas)
- An annual maintenance stipend (£20,780 per annum for 2025/26)
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Programmes
- PhD Anthropology, Media & Performance
- PhD Arab World Studies
- PhD Archaeology
- PhD Art and Social Practice
- PhD Art History & Visual Studies
- PhD Arts & Cultural Management
- PhD Arts Management & Cultural Policy
- PhD Chinese Studies
- PhD Classics & Ancient History
- PhD Creative Writing
- PhD Digital Humanities Humanities, Cultures and Media
- PhD Drama
- PhD East Asian Studies
- PhD Egyptology
- PhD English & American Studies
- PhD French Studies
- PhD German Studies
- PhD History
- PhD Humanitarianism & Conflict Response
- PhD Intepreting Studies
- PhD Italian Studies
- PhD Japanese Studies
- PhD Latin American Studies
- PhD Linguitics
- PhD Middle Eastern Studies
- PhD Museology
- PhD Museum Practice
- PhD Music (Composition)
- PhD Music (Electroacoustic Composition)
- PhD Music (Musicology)
- PhD Portuguese Studies
- PhD Religions & Theology
- PhD Russian & East European Studies
- PhD Spanish Studies
- PhD Translation & Intercultural Studies
Eligibility
Applicants must meet the academic requirements of their programme. For most programmes in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, this is:
- Bachelor's (Honours) degree at 2:1 or above (or overseas equivalent); and
- Master's degree in a relevant subject - with an overall average of 65% or above, a minimum mark of 65% in your dissertation and no mark below 55% (or overseas equivalent).
Deadlines
To enter the SALC Studentship competition, applicants must submit their programme application no later than 12 January 2026.
Please note that these are strict deadlines and late or incomplete applications will not be included in the competition.
Allocation procedure
- Applicants submit their programme application by Monday, 12 January 2026. Applications must contain all necessary supporting documents and indicate the intention to apply for a SALC studentship.
- Applications are circulated for review via PGRA. If you have a potential supervisee seeking SALC funding, please ensure to review their application in a timely manner.
- All eligible applicants holding offers (date to be confirmed) are compiled into a candidate list, provided to Departmental PGR Directors and Admissions Tutors, along with access to all relevant application documents..
- The SALC Studentship Panel is arranged by the PGR Director, and SALC Studentships allocated accordingly. The outcomes are confirmed to the Doctoral Academy Admissions team.
- The Doctoral Academy Admissions team communicates outcomes to all unsuccessful and reserve candidates, and issues funding letters to SALC studentship awardees.
New Generation PhD Studentships
3 SALC studentships are ringfenced to UK-domiciled applicants who qualify for home fee status and who identify with one of the following groups currently under-represented in postgraduate research in the Humanities:
- Black/Black British - African
- Black/Black British - Caribbean
- Black/Black British - Other
- Black/Black British background - Mixed
To enter the competition, applicants must indicate their intention to apply for a New Generation PhD Studentship in section 9 of the application form.
The deadlines and allocation process are the same as above. New Generation PhD Studentship applicants will be indicated in the candidate list, and the awardees will be determined in the SALC panel.