Funding and Awards

Drama at Queen Mary aims to provide financial support to outstanding applicants.

AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award

The deadline for applications is 1st December 2025. Please check the AHRC website for further details.

China Scholarship Council 

Application Deadline: 28 January 2025, 4pm GMT

Under the scheme, Queen Mary will provide scholarships to cover all tuition fees, whilst the CSC will provide living expenses and one return flight ticket to successful applicants. This scholarship is available to both new and continuing (current 1st year) students. Associate students who want to come to Queen Mary for 6-24 months are also able to apply.

For more information on this programme and how to apply, see:

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/scholarships/items/china-scholarship-council-scholarships.html

CSC website: http://www.csc.edu.cn 

Queen Mary Postgraduate Research Studentships

The deadline for applications: TBC

Each year Queen Mary offers a number of Postgraduate Research Studentships to highly qualified PhD applicants. They include a tuition fee waiver and an annual stipend of around £20,622 (part-time £10,311). Studentships are tenable for up to three years. Applicants from the United Kingdom, European Union, and overseas are eligible to apply. We welcome applications in any area of the Department’s research expertise as well as interdisciplinary projects with other departments.

All candidates who are offered a place on our PhD programme will be automatically considered for a Queen Mary Postgraduate Research Studentship if they indicate on their application that they wish to be considered. Please note that there is no separate application form for this studentship. You must submit your PhD application via the online portal and include a Research Proposal, Statement of Purpose, CV, degree certificates, transcripts, two references, and IELTS scores (if applicable). Candidates should hold a first-class or an excellent upper-second class Honours degree or equivalent and would normally be expected to hold a master’s degree.

Please note that these awards are also open to existing PhD students in their first year of a full-time study or their first two years of part-time study.

The awards, which are also known as Principal’s Studentships, are administered by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). Please read the following documents before making an application.

HSS Studentship Guidance 2024 [DOC 37KB]

Guidance to applicants 2024 [PDF 134KB]

BAME Studentships for UK candidates

We encourage applicants from BAME (Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic) backgrounds who have been previously under-represented in this process.

For 2025 entry, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences will be offering fully funded PhD studentships to UK applicants from BAME backgrounds.

Further information about the BAME Studentships can be found here (see HSS PhD Studentships - Funding Info).

Externally Funded Awards

We welcome applications from prospective Commonwealth Scholars and candidates seeking other externally funded awards.

Further information

For further information please contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Nicholas Ridout: n.p.ridout@qmul.ac.uk

See also Queen Mary's central page offering information on research studentships.