University of Essex Silberrad Scholarship for History and Philosophy 2013

The Silberrad Scholarship is available to support talented PhD students (UK and EU) who are graduates of the University of Essex.

The scholarship is available to Home/EU tuition fee paying students who hold a degree from the University of Essex (Undergraduate and/or Masters) or are in the final term of completing a degree.

To be eligible to apply you must be applying for a new programme of study and hold an offer from the University of Essex for full-time PhD study commencing in October 2013.

The scholarship covers tuition fees (Home/EU) and provides a bursary element towards living costs. In 2012/13 the scholarship will be worth £9,020. Two Silberrad scholarships were awarded in 2012. Awards are granted for one year in the first instance but will be renewed, subject to the award holder's satisfactory progress, for a second and third year.

The deadline for applications is 1 March 2012.

Further information and an application form are available at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance/pg/university_support/silberrad.aspx

Other sources of funding that PhD students may be eligible to apply for include:

• The University of Essex Doctoral Scholarships

There may be other sources of funding depending on your circumstances so please check our scholarship finder.

All enquiries about funding and scholarships should be sent to the email address below

Founded nearly 50 years ago, the University of Essex is ranked ninth in the UK for research excellence, following the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. This allows us to offer world-class supervision and training opportunities, with our research students working at the heart of our internationally-acknowledged and well-connected research community. We are also one of the world's most internationally diverse universities, with more than one third of our 11,000 students coming from outside the UK, thus creating a diverse social and academic learning experience for all.