Teaching Studentships

Teaching Studentships offer a tuition fee waiver (at the home/EU rate) and a stipend of at least £5000. The studentship covers three years of full time PhD registration and funds the studentship holder for up to 6 months (paid pro rata) of their writing-up year. In addition, the Teaching Studentship includes a defined teaching role and training programme offering the opportunity to gain valuable experience and career development at the same time as carrying out doctoral research. The teaching workload, including training, preparation and marking time is usually expected to be around 50 hours. The actual number of hours depends upon the specific teaching studentship. The eligible department will offer further guidance on the specific expectations of a particular Teaching Studentship.

Eligibility

Eligibility and Availability

In order to be eligible you must:

  1. Have applied for and been offered a place on a full time PhD programme in the relevant Department.
  2. Have or expect to obtain a first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent prior to commencing the PhD degree.
  3. Applicants whose first language is not English must obtain an IELTS score of 7.0 or above (or equivalent) in the speaking component of the test.

Availability confirmed for 2012/13 entry

There is one Scholarship available in each of the eligible departments.

 DepartmentArea of Teaching Scholarship StipendDeadline 
Environment Environmental Economics area £5000

Deadline extended to:

3 August 2012
History / CMS Any area of historical specialism supported by the History Department or the Centre for Medieval Studies £5000 Expired
Law Property Law (including the law of trusts) £5000 Expired
Physics Fusion Energy and Plasma Applications £13590 Expired
Psychology Experimental Psychology £13000 Expired

 

Applying

Application procedure and deadline

Scholarship applications shoulc be submitted online. We are only able to accept scholarship applications from individuals who already hold an offer of a place on the relevant programme. The deadline for applications is usually 4pm on 30 April each year before entry the following October. Please refer to the 'Eligibility and Availability' section to verify the specific deadline for a given scholarship. To ensure fairness and transparency we do not accept applications after the deadline.

We begin accepting scholarship applications from November via the online application form.

Your application will be logged and you will receive a confirmation email. If you do not receive a confirmation email within 2 weeks of submitting your application please email student-financial-support@york.ac.uk. Please note that if you submit you application within two weeks of the deadline then it will not be possible to confirm receipt of your application before the deadline.

Allocation

Allocation process and notification

Once the deadline has passed, all eligible applications are forwarded to the relevant Scholarships Committee for consideration.

There are a limited number of awards available. The Scholarships Committee will therefore use a set of allocation criteria to choose the successful candidate(s) from the pool of eligible candidates.

The allocation criteria are:

  • Academic excellence (as evidenced by the applicant in the Scholarship application form and independently verifed by the Scholarship Committee with reference to evidence submitted to the relevant academic Department when applying for a place on the programme)
  • Committees make take into account the suitability of the applicants PhD research proposal to the area of the Teaching Scholarship

The successful candidate is the applicant that best meets the allocation criteria for the Scholarship. Decisions are based on the evidence submitted to and verified by the relevant Scholarship Committee. In some cases a Committee will identify a reserve candidate in case the initially successful candidate is unable to accept the offer of the Scholarship for any reason.

Allocation decisions are made throughout May, June, July and August before the October start.

All applicants will be contacted with the results of their application by email in the first instance.

Terms

Terms and conditions

Successful candidates will be sent a formal letter confirming the offer of the Scholarship. The letter sets out the value and duration of the award. The letter asks candidates to accept the Terms of the Scholarship.

For awards with fee waivers

Fee waivers are paid directly to the University on behalf of the award holder and will be deducted from the award holder's account. Award holders will be responsible for paying any outstanding fees.

The Teaching Studentship does not cover the Continuation fee charged in the writing-up year as this fee is not a tuition fee. The award holder will be responsible for paying this fee themselves.

For awards with stipends

Stipends are paid quarterly in October, January, April and July each year. Award holders will be asked for bank details so that stipends can be paid directly into a prefered bank account.

For all scholarships and studentships

Continued receipt of all scholarships is conditional upon satisfactory academic progress. Scholarship holders should notify the Student Financial Support Unit in the following circumstances:

  • a leave of absence is approved
  • a change in programme of study is approved
  • a change in status is approved (e.g. full time to part time)
  • you withdraw from your programme.

The Student Financial Support Unit may request progress updates from the supervisors of award holders in order to monitor academic progress.