The British Society of Aesthetics proposes to award up to three PhD studentship full-time maintenance grants, plus tuition fees up to the maximum for UK/EU students, from September 2015 for up to three years.
The award is designed to support promising students of philosophical aesthetics by enabling them to pursue full time doctoral research. The maintenance grant mirrors the AHRC’s studentship award. Rates for 2015-16 have not yet been announced but, for comparison, the 2014-15 maintenance award for full-time students was £13,863 (or within the City of London or the Metropolitan Police district £15,863).
Candidates for the studentship must be UK or EU citizens who are already accepted on to a PhD programme at a British university at the time of application, to research on a subject that falls within the remit of the British Society of Aesthetics. The proposed research must have a strong philosophical component. For students with a conditional offer, any award made shall be conditional upon acceptance onto the PhD programme.
Applications should be in the form of ONE document (Word or PDF) which includes ALL of the following: In addition to the application, the following must be supplied: All the above should be sent via email to Caroline Auty, BSA Manager: admin@british-aesthetics.org Short-listed candidates will be invited to submit a piece of written work of (maximum 7,500 words) after this date. Members of the BSA Trustees Committee will assess the applications received in consultation with one or more external readers. The BSA will endeavour to communicate the result of the competition to applicants by the end of July, but no later than the end of August. The BSA reserves the right not to make an award. It is a condition of application to the BSA, and should be confirmed in the covering email, that: If any such applications are successful, the amount of the BSA scholarship, if awarded, will be reduced by the amount of the other award(s). The successful candidate(s) will be expected to complete a PhD, or be very close to completion, by the end of the award period, and to provide brief progress reports to the Society in August each year.