University of Essex Silberrad Scholarship
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 2012.
How much are the scholarships worth?
There are two Silberrad scholarships available in 2012/13. The scholarship covers tuition fees (Home/EU) and provides a bursary element towards living costs. In 2012/13 the scholarship will be worth £8,500. 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 31 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:
There may be other sources of funding depending on your circumstances so please check our scholarshipfinder.
All enquiries about funding and scholarships should be sent to scholarships@essex.ac.uk.
The University of Essex celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2014, and we have become one of the UK’s leading academic institutions, ranked ninth in the UK for the quality of our research. More than a quarter of our 11,000 students are postgraduates. We are one of the most internationally diverse campus-based universities in Britain with 4,500 students coming from more than 130 different countries outside the UK. We are also ranked in the top 20 mainstream English universities for student satisfaction, and have a strong record in widening participation, attracting students from a diverse range of social and educational backgrounds. The University has three campuses in Essex, and partnerships with a number of education institutions across the region. We have eighteen academic departments, grouped into four faculties covering the social sciences, science and engineering, humanities, and law and management.