Skip logo, search and navigation. Go straight to the main content.

Aberystwyth Postgraduate Research Studentship Competition

The competition for these prestigious research studentships is now open to all UK and other EU students who wish to study for a full-time PhD in any of the following departments at Aberystwyth University:

Departments offering research studentships
Art International Politics
Biological, Environmental & Rural  Sciences Law and Criminology
Computer Science Management and Business
Education and Lifelong Learninig Mathematics and Physics
English Literature and Creative Writing Psychology
European Languages Sport and Exercise Science
Geography and Earth Sciences Theatre, Film and Television Studies
History and Welsh History Welsh and Celtic Studies
Information Studies

To be eligible you must:

  1. be a UK/EU fee payer
  2. have or expect to obtain at least upper second class honours in your first degree
  3. apply and be offered a place for doctoral study at Aberystwyth

The University's general deadline for the 2010 competition is the 1st March 2010. Please note that the Department of International Politics and the Institute of Geography & Earth Sciences has an earlier deadline of 29th January 2010.

Successful applicants will receive a grant for up to three years which will cover their tuition fees and also provide them with a maintenance allowance of approximately  £13,290 and access to a travel and conference fund.

For further information please see http://www.aber.ac.uk/pga/APRS_Competition_2010.html

Departmental nominations will be forwarded to our Deans' Office at the end of March for evaluation. The results will be announced during the first week of May.