Scholarships & funding

PhD Studentships in Arts and Humanities with Journal Managing Editor Role

Two awards are available to fund students to undertake PhD research in arts and humanities and to share the role of Managing Editor for the prestigious journal Modernism/ modernity. The studentships will provide an enhanced experience through professional development activities, mentoring, and collaborative working as part of an international team.

Key features

• PhD research can be in any arts and humanities discipline
• The start date is October 2025
• Funding covers full-time fees (UK or international rates) for up to four years, renewable annually, together with a stipend of £7,000 per annum.
• The Managing Editor role involves project managing the print issues and online content for an interdisciplinary journal with editorial offices at the University of Glasgow and Rutgers University in the US.

Who can apply

The studentships are open to new PhD candidates only. You must have applied for an arts and humanities PhD at the University of Glasgow before you can apply for the scholarship.

If you have already applied to study for an arts and humanities PhD at the University of Glasgow, you can apply for the scholarship now.

If you have not yet applied for an arts & humanities PhD at the University of Glasgow, you should do this before the scholarship application deadline of 2nd April 2025.

All scholarship applications and supporting CVs must be submitted by 2nd April 2025.

Preference will be given to candidates whose project, in any discipline, relates to the work of the "Modernities" research cluster at the University of Glasgow. However, those working in other fields are also eligible to apply.

Additional preference will be given to candidates with experience in project management, editorial or publishing work, or previous employment in an administrative role.

About the Managing Editor Role

• The Managing Editor role involves project managing the print issues and online content for an interdisciplinary journal with editorial offices at the University of Glasgow and Rutgers University in the USA.
• This will include: setting schedules and ensuring they are kept to; liaising with authors, journal editors and copyeditors; citation checking; and proofreading.
• Awards are available for up to four years, renewable annually.
• It is expected that work on the journal will occupy approximately one day per week for each Managing Editor, but workloads will vary across the year.

Number of Scholarships

2

Value

Full-time fees (UK or international rates) for up to four years, renewable annually, together with a stipend of £7,000 per annum, also renewable annually.

How to apply

How to apply

1. IDENTIFY A POTENTIAL SUPERVISOR: you can find and contact relevant academic staff members with our staff research interests search.
2. APPLICATION FORM: Download and complete the Scholarship Application Form, then submit it along with a two-page CV via our Scholarship Portal. Select College of Arts & Humanities Postgraduate Research Funding and choose COAH-25-001.
3. PHD APPLICATION: submit an application on the University’s MyCampus system. Please name the Modernism/ modernity Scholarship as one of the funding options under Finance in the online full application. Please see How to Apply for a Postgraduate Research Degreefor more information and once you have all your supporting documentation you can apply online through our Online Application System.

Please note the deadline for both scholarship application and online PhD application is Wednesday 2nd April 2025.

For more information contact: Faye.Hammill@glasgow.ac.uk