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Scholarships & funding

School of Law PhD Scholarships

About the Project

The School of Law invites applications for up to two funded PhD scholarships for doctoral research, either in Scots Private Law or UK Public Law, commencing in October 2024. Indicative topics that would be appropriate for these awards include (but are not limited to) the following:

For Scots Private Law (including topics in private international law): contracts and obligations, delict (including negligence), equity and trusts, family law, property law (including family property), remedies, and wills and succession.
For UK Public Law: administrative law, devolution, the judiciary and judicial review, the executive and executive power, Parliament and parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, and the separation of powers.

About the School/Research Group

The University of Glasgow, founded in 1451, is one of Scotland’s ancient universities and the 4 th oldest university in the English-speaking world. Today, the University’s School of Law is a vibrant and cosmopolitan centre for world-leading legal scholarship, recognized by the 2021 Research Excellence Framework as one of the top 5 law schools in the United Kingdom for academic research. Further information about the University of Glasgow’s School of Law can be found at https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/ . The following pages may be of particular interest:

Research in the School of Law: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/research/
Postgraduate research in the School of Law: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/postgraduateresearch/
Current research students: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/research/researchstudents/

The scholarships are open to anyone who, by September 2024, will hold an honours degree in Law or an honours degree in another discipline followed by a graduate LLB. A Master’s degree (or overseas equivalent) may be an advantage but is not essential. Applicants without a Master’s degree may, if successful, be asked to register initially for the LLM by research with a view to transferring to the PhD programme at the end of their first year of study.

Applicants must have a minimum of an upper second-class honours undergraduate degree (or overseas equivalent), which should include evidence of at least some performance at first-class level (or overseas equivalent). Applicants without a Master’s degree (completed or in progress) must either have achieved (or be predicted to achieve) a first-class honours (or ‘distinction’) degree classification in their LLB (or overseas equivalent).

Please note that all applicants must also meet the entry requirements of the Law, PhD .

Number of Scholarships

Eligible countries/regions.

Afghanistan
Antigua and Barbuda
Bosnia and Herzegovina
British Virgin Islands
Burkina Faso
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Congo Democratic Republic of
Cote d'Ivoire
Czech Republic
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Falkland Islands
Guinea Bissau
Korea North
Korea South
Liechtenstein
Marshall Islands
Netherlands
New Zealand
Northern Ireland
Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
South Africa
South Sudan
St Kitts and Nevis
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Switzerland
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
United Arab Emirates
United States of America
Vatican City

Eligible programmes

Law [PhD/LLM (Research)]

Award details

The scholarships will provide funding for three years of research towards a PhD in Law. The programme will commence in October 2024. The full scholarship package includes:

An annual maintenance grant (stipend) indexed to the UKRI rate
Fees at the standard Home rate rate
Recipients can also draw on a Research Training Support Grant (RTSG) of up to £940 per annum.

Applicants may apply to hold the scholarship on a part-time basis over five years: where this is the case it should be made explicit in the application. Part-time applicants must be able to commit 50% of full-time equivalent to PhD study and must include a realistic assessment of how the time required to complete a PhD will be balanced with other commitments. International applicants may have visa restrictions that preclude undertaking a PhD on a part-time basis

The scholarship does not cover fees at the international rate but successful applicants who are required to pay international fees may be able to apply separately for a waiver of the difference in fees. There will be no obligation to accept any award before a decision on such an application is confirmed.

How to apply

Please review the How to apply section on this page .

For more information contact: [email protected]

School of Law
Postgraduate

PhD scholarships

We are committed to giving you as many opportunities as possible to succeed. There are a number of funding opportunities available to students from both the UK and overseas.

Scholarships typically cover the costs of all or some of your tuition fees, a living allowance and a Research Training and Support Grant. However, this varies depending on the scholarship, so please check carefully the details of each scholarship and the funding that is provided. Awarded scholarships are highly competitive.

School of Law PhD Scholarship

The School of Law funded PhD scholarships for a full-time or part-time student for 2024-25 have now closed. Information on this scholarship can be found below.

The scholarship is awarded on a competitive basis. Applications are assessed on academic success and qualifications, experience, research background, a clear well-articulated, fully-developed research proposal which contributes to knowledge or society and a good match with supervisor expertise.

This scholarship provides the following funding:

Fees: Full payment of tuition fees across the course of study at the Home rate. For international students, the residual fee must be met by the individual.
Maintenance/stipend: £15,000 per year for full-time students with payments being made to the individual in quarterly instalments for three and a half years after the start of the course.
Research Training Support Grant: Up to £500 per year for 3 years with the balance of unspent funds rolling forward each year. Restrictions apply to the use of these funds and there must be a clear connection to supporting the research project. Any unspent funds at the end of the project will be retained by the School.

The above will be pro-rated for a part-time student.

There are several other scholarships available which include:

These scholarship awards include empirical socio-legal or criminology research projects and are awarded to UK and international students wishing to start in October 2025. The current round of the competition will provide the following awards: 1. WRDTP Pathway Awards 2. WRDTP Advanced Quantitative Methods Awards To be considered for this award applicants will need to have secured an offer (conditional or unconditional) to study for a PhD in the academic year 2025-26 by the 6th of January 2025. Interested applicants must contact the School PGR Director, Dr Maria Tzanou ([email protected]) or PGR Deputy Director for Admissions, Professor Tsachi Keren-Paz ( [email protected] ) in advance of their application.
These scholarship awards include projects which fall within the scope of Arts and Humanities and are awarded to UK and international students. To be considered for this award, you need to have a PhD offer by the School of Law by the 6th of January 2025.

To be considered for this award applicants will need to have secured an unconditional offer to study for a PhD in the academic year 2024-2025 by the 24th of January 2024.

What's included and how they're awarded

The scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis. Applications are assessed on academic success and qualifications, experience, research background, a clear well-articulated research proposal, the potential impact of the research and a good match with supervisor/department/faculty expertise.

How to apply

In order to be considered for a scholarship you must firstly apply for a place to study, via the Postgraduate Online Application System .
Submit the scholarship application: Once you have completed step 1, or if you already have an offer to study with us, you should log into your postgraduate application and complete the additional scholarship section.

Please note: It is essential that you apply for the scholarship that is most suited to your project and circumstances as once the deadline has passed it is not possible to change this. If you are unsure about which scholarship to apply for, please contact [email protected]

If you have any questions about scholarships please see our FAQs or email [email protected] .