Postgraduate research funding
AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards in the Arts and Humanities
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funds outstanding original research across the arts and humanities. The University of York is pleased to be awarding six of these AHRC Doctoral Landscape awards to fund students beginning their doctoral research.
Wolfson Humanities Scholarship
With generous funding from the Wolfson Foundation, the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarships fund doctoral research in three areas: History, Literature and Languages.
Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program
The Canada Graduate Research Scholarship - Doctoral Program supports research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of health, natural sciences and engineering and social sciences and humanities, including interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research.
Tan Kah Kee Scholarship
The Tan Kah Kee Scholarship offers postgraduate scholarships for Singapore citizens and permanent residents pursuing full-time PhD or Masters degrees.
Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund Lånekassen
The Ministry provides grants and loans for higher education study outside of the Nordic region.
Commonwealth Scholarship
The University of York is a host university for the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. Various opportunities are available throughout the year. The majority of awards are funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
John Monash Scholarship
The John Monash Scholarship provides yearly funding to outstanding postgraduate taught and research students from Australia.
Saïd Foundation Scholarship
The Saïd Foundation awards fully-funded scholarships to outstanding individuals from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine looking to study a one-year Masters in the UK.
COLFUTURO Scholarship Loan programme
We grant a 25% tuition fee discount to most COLFUTURO-sponsored postgraduate students. You can combine this with most University of York partial scholarships.
Yorkshire Bach Choir
We are now accepting applications for our choral scholarship scheme. The 12-month scholarships will be open to all four voice parts.
York Minster Choral Scholarships
York Minster offers choral scholarships lasting 12 months or longer.
Previous funding opportunities
These opportunities are closed to applications. They may reopen in future years.
- AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship - John Flaxman: Art, Design and the Intermedial Body
- AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – Exporting JMW Turner, c.1910–1966 with Tate and the University of York
- ANID / Becas Chile
- British & Irish Furniture Makers Online and Furniture History Society digital research project
- China Scholarships Council Scholarship
- Eric Milner-White Studentship
- Minster Monuments Audit Church of England, Diocese of Leeds
- Post-Reformation Sculptural Monuments of York Minster Studentship
- WRoCAH funding
- York Art Gallery Postgraduate Research Fellowship
- BBSRC White Rose DTP (WR DTP) in Mechanistic Biology: Diverse Talent Scholarships
- Beca Carlos Quijano
- Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Doctoral Foreign Study Award
- Gowrie bursary
- IODE War Memorial Scholarships
- Jansons Scholarships
- Joan Samuels Scholarship
- Marshall Scholarship
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Doctoral Fellowships
- Overseas PhD Scholarships for University of the Punjab in service non-PhD teachers
- Rem@ke PhD Studentship
- Roberta Sykes scholarship
- Santander Scholarship Programme
- Santander | British Council Online English Course 2026
- Snowdon Masters Scholarship
- York Graduate Research School PhD Scholarship