AberDoc Scholarship

AberDoc Scholarships are part of a prestigious fund for Research Postgraduates
These awards are tailored to enable students to develop the necessary skills required to meet their career choices and offer a breadth of development opportunities to enhance their research, teaching and transferable skills.
Applications for the AberDoc Scholarship are now open
Eligibility
To be eligible you must:
- have or expect to obtain at least upper second-class honours in your first degree
- apply and be offered a place for doctoral study at Aberystwyth
- non-UK students must achieve IELTS 7.0, or equivalent (before the end of March 2026 at the latest)
- be commencing your doctoral study in September 2026 or be a current AU PhD student.
Deadline
If you wish to be considered for an AberDoc Scholarship for PhD study commencing in September 2026, you must have submitted a full PhD application (including research proposal) via the relevant course page by 5pm Friday 9 January 2026.
All new PhD applicants are also required to complete either one of the attached forms AberDoc Application Form 2026 - A or AberDoc Application Form 2026 - B and upload to your PhD application before submitting your application online.
Current AU PhD students are also required to complete either one of the attached forms AberDoc Application Form 2026 - A or AberDoc Application Form 2026 - B and e-mail the completed form to pg-admissions@aber.ac.uk by 5pm Friday 9 January 2026.
Current AU PhD students are not required to submit a new PhD application via the online Postgraduate Admissions Portal.