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 2025 have now closed
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 2025 at the latest)
- be commencing your doctoral study in September 2025 or be a current AU PhD student.
Deadline
If you wish to be considered for an AberDoc Scholarship for PhD study commencing in September 2025, you must have submitted a full PhD application (including research proposal) via the relevant course page by 10 January 2025.
Current AU PhD students who wish to be considered for an AberDoc Scholarship commencing in September 2025 must have completed an AberDoc Expression of Interest Form 2025 (for use by current AU PhD students only) and have submitted it to pg-admissions@aber.ac.uk by this deadline.
Existing AU PhD students are not required to submit a new PhD application via the online Postgraduate Admissions Portal.