SAHGB Launches MA Scholarship partnering with UK Universities
We are thrilled to launch a new Masters’ Bursary scheme, launching with a pilot programme for the academic year 2021-2022.
Note to readers: This article was correct as at Spring 2021.
Bursaries and scholarships available in the current year, and the dates when these programmes open and close to applicants, are best found under the Funding posts on the SAHGB Website menu.
There are significant, often structural, barriers to postgraduate study, in particular in disciplines like architectural history. As part of the Society’s commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we are now partnering with UK universities to offer a new academic bursary for 2021-22. We need to do more to diversify our discipline and those who practice it. Recognising that partial support often excludes those from non-traditional backgrounds for postgraduate study in the humanities, we are offering a £20,000 bursary to one candidate.
We hope this bursary will be transformational for the successful candidate, opening up the possibility of further study and career development in architectural history in higher education, heritage practice and/or museums and collections. BAME applicants to programmes within this pilot are particularly encouraged to imagine their future with us.
Our university partners will make a limited number of nominations of candidates who have been offered a place on their taught masters’ programmes. The bursary is for a sum of £20000, to include fees and maintenance (1 year full-time or 2 years part-time study). Funds will be issued to the candidate directly, not via their university. Funds will be paid in two instalments over the academic year, subject to successful progress through the course. Nominated candidates will be invited to submit a brief application, including a personal statement. No unsolicited applications to the SAHGB will be accepted so if you are a student interested in this opportunity, please contact your institution directly. The closing date will be Friday 16 July 2021. For further details, please go to our partner university departments’ webpages.
Partners and eligible programmes: Birmingham City University, MA Conservation of the Historic Environment Birkbeck, University of London, MA History of Architecture Oxford Brookes University, MA Historic Conservation University of Cambridge, MSt Building History University of Edinburgh, MSt Architectural History and Theory University of Oxford, MSt History of Design University of York MA Conservation Studies (Historic Buildings); MA Archaeology of Buildings; MA English Building History (online).
We’re proud to partner with a group of leading university programmes in architectural history. If you’d like to join our academic network, please email info@sahgb.org.uk. We are grateful to the trustees of the Arnold Stevenson estate for the generous bequest which has made this award possible.