The British Council Scotland is calling for applications from international PhD and Early Career Researchers for their SGSAH EARTH Scholarships 2025, which matches researchers with Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Scotland-based academic mentors, and external organisations to investigate environmental arts and humanities and their interdisciplinary connections.

The overall aim of the programme is to promote the role and interventions of the environmental arts and humanities, and the arts and cultural sector, in addressing the climate emergency, and their capacity for interdisciplinary research within STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics) contexts. The programme will create research opportunities and international mobility which will develop and support new approaches to address the global challenge of climate crisis and support sustainable research and cultural interchanges within and beyond the arts and humanities and cultural sectors. 

The scholarships will take place between April and July 2025. It is expected that successful applicants – for environmental and economic reasons – only travel once to Scotland.

Scholarship proposals may include in-person and hybrid aspects and can last from six weeks (ie 45 days) to three months (ie 90 days), including the 10-day cohort programme in April/May 2025. The programme includes an in-person, hybrid and online cohort development programme.

Eligibility

The scholarships are for PhD and ECRs in the Arts and Humanities to benefit from a concerted period of time spent in Scotland in 2025. To make the application, candidates need to identify an academic mentor and a Host HEI.

Support

Each applicant submits a budget that includes travel, accommodation, subsistence, visa costs, and additional funding for particular needs (e.g. childcare, access requirements, relating to disability).

SGSAH EARTH Scholarships 2025 application guidelines

Deadline: 1 November 2024