August 27th, 2023 at 08:03 am

British Council Scotland SGSAH Earth Scholarships || Study in Scotland 2024

The British Council and the Scottish SGSAH are pleased to announce the opening of the application period for the 2024 British Council Scotland SGSAH Earth Scholarships. These scholarships will provide financial assistance to Ph.D. students and early career researchers who are working with Scottish institutions on collaborative research projects that span international borders.

The initiative aims to promote the role and interventions of the environmental arts and humanities, the arts and cultural sector, and their potential for multidisciplinary research within Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) in order to confront the climate emergency.

Scholarships for SGSAH Earth from the British Council of Scotland

• Funding Organization: British Council
• Scholarship Type: Full funding
• Host University: The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities
• Study Level: Graduate-level studies
• Eligible Nationality: All Nationalities are Accepted

In addition to supporting sustainable research and cultural exchanges inside and outside the arts, humanities, and cultural sectors, the scholarship will open up opportunities for research and international mobility that will help develop and promote new approaches to dealing with the world’s climate catastrophe.

For in-person and hybrid exchanges lasting up to three months in 2024 in the field of environmental arts and humanities, the program will offer grants to Ph.D. and Early Career Researchers living outside the UK.

In April 2024, all grantees of the research placements will join scholars from Scotland for a 2-week core leadership program that will help them create their cohort. This program will be supported by a number of Clusters that are regionally and thematically focused.

Criteria for Eligibility

Candidates must fulfill the requirements listed below in order to be considered for the British Council Scotland SGSAH Earth Scholarships 2024:

• Applicants must hold a Ph.D. and be early career researchers registered or graduated from a non-UK university who are working with the environmental arts and humanities to come to Scotland to work with a mentor and use networks and resources of a host higher education institution.
• Requires outstanding academic and research skills.
• Early career researchers must have received their PhD award notification within a year.

The program is for Ph.D. and early career researchers (ECRs) working in the environmental arts and humanities who are registered at or graduated from any non-UK university to come to Scotland in 2024 to work with a mentor and access networks and resources of a host HEI (Higher Education Institute).

All applicants must be either enrolled in or have already completed a Ph.D. program in an area that is generally considered to be in the arts and humanities. The AHRC provides more information on these topics. Additionally, research projects must address topics in the arts and humanities.

For all interdisciplinary PhDs, the arts and humanities must account for at least 50% of the project. Research project submissions using interdisciplinarity methods outside of the Arts and humanities are actively encouraged by the program.

For the purposes of the Program, ECRs must be within a year of receiving news that their Ph.D. was awarded (in rare cases, this deadline may be extended to two years; for further information, see the program Guidelines).

The HEIs for SGSAH are:

• Abertay University
• Edinburgh Napier University
  
• The Glasgow School of Art
• Glasgow Caledonian University
  
• Heriot-Watt University
• Queen Margaret University
  
• Robert Gordon University
  
• Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  
• University of Aberdeen
  
• University of Dundee
  
• University of Edinburgh
  
• University of Glasgow
  
• University of St Andrews
  
• University of Stirling
  
• University of Strathclyde
  
• University of the Highlands & Islands
  
• University of the West of Scotland

Clusters

The EARTH Scholarships will take advantage of and be positioned within three Clusters that are structured geographically and thematically. These Clusters will offer research positions, chances for training and development for researchers, and will contribute to the training of the cohort that will begin in April 2024. The Clusters will make it possible for:

• Expanded understanding of environmental arts and humanities fields, with a focus on Scotland, as well as study of these fields
• STEAM is an acronym that stands for “interdisciplinary work within and beyond the arts and humanities.”
• Participation in discussions and excursions with other academics, practitioners, and professionals is encouraged.
• Access to organizations, resources, skills, and experience in the arts and culture sector in a variety of geographical situations, including urban and rural settings.

Cluster 1: Place, Time and Action

HEIs: University of Aberdeen, Abertay University, University of Dundee, University of the Highlands and Islands, University of Glasgow, Robert Gordon University, University of St Andrews

Academic Leads: Professor Ingrid Mainland (UHI, Cluster Lead) and Professor Mel Woods (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Deputy Lead)

We are a consortium of universities located mainly in the east and north of Scotland but also including researchers in archaeology and palaeoecology at the University of Glasgow. Our expertise stretches across the arts and humanities, from historical and political ecology to modern policy-making, to the psychology of behavior change, and ecocritical approaches to literature, design, art, and architecture.

Within this, we have a focus on the historical and future dimensions of environmental change and the potential offered therein by deep-time perspectives and indigenous oral histories, and on climate action research through creative practice, place-based research, and other forms of engagement and participation. Our researchers are engaging with climate emergency themes through training, KE, and within a research context.

Running through all our activities is a strong commitment to interdisciplinary research. We would welcome applications that sit anywhere within these broad themes but also encourage applicants to explore linkages with existing research projects at one of our participating centers or research groups.

Cluster 2: 3Ms: Making, Method and Multispecies

HEIs: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University, University of St Andrews & Heriot Watt University

Academic Leads: Dr Emily Alder (Edinburgh Napier University) and Dr Mark Hilley (University of Edinburgh)

Cluster 2 will prioritize applications of high quality and originality that address the strength of Edinburgh research in three broad areas: Making, Method, and Multispecies.

Making captures our long tradition of creative practice (from art, film, writing, performance, curating, gaming, and beyond). Method foregrounds methodological diversity within the arts and humanities and also looks to learn from wider approaches in the social and environmental sciences, as well as considering issues of fieldwork, globalism/localism, communication, data, representation, and exchange across the academic-public-political boundaries.

Multispecies question boundaries of animal-plant-fungal life tackle issues of equality and justice, multisensorialism, extractivism, posthumanism, deep time, archaeology, and heritage beyond the human alone.

The cluster delivers training through key existing research projects and centres including (but not limited to) The Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network, The Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Humanimal Kind, The CRITIQUE Reading Group, British Animal Studies Network, The Edinburgh Futures Institute, Fossil-Fuel.ed

The wide range of Scottish sector partners and potential sites for research placements include Creative Scotland, Creative Carbon Scotland, Little Sparta, Fife Contemporary, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, The Barn, The Scottish Poetry Library

The cluster also commits to providing cross-cluster training where possible, and to hosting a cohort-wide networking or programme event hosted by Hospitalfield, Cove Park, Talbot Rice Gallery, etc.

Cluster 3: ‘Triple E’ – Economy, Ethics and Environment

HEIs: University of Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian University, University of Stirling, University of Strathclyde, University of the West of Scotland 

Academic Leads: Professor Mark Banks (University of Glasgow, Cluster Lead) and Dr Charles Pigott  (University of Strathclyde, Deputy Lead)

This cluster draws together a range of interdisciplinary arts and humanities expertise around three broad and inclusive themes; firstly, the cultural and creative economy and theories of its sustainable and socially just future; secondly, issues of ethics, politics, and political ecology as they play out in human and non-human contexts, and in different historical periods; and, thirdly, theories of environment, including creative approaches to researching species, energy, ecology and the geohumanities.

The cluster will take an inclusive approach to these themes, and seek to deliver training through its range of key existing research projects and centers including (but not limited to) the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, The Dear Green Bothy, Creative Geohumanities, A + E Collective (Glasgow), Centre for Environment Heritage and Policy (Stirling), British Animal Studies Network, One Ocean Hub (Strathclyde), Centre for Climate Justice (GCU), and the Protracted Crisis Research Centre  (UWS) as well as other relevant academic groupings and affiliates.

The wide range of Scottish sector partners and potential sites for research placements might include BBC Scotland, The Hunterian Museum, Creative Scotland, Creative Carbon Scotland, Fife Contemporary, the Scottish Council on Global Affairs, and Zero Waste Scotland inter alia – plus our members have an extensive range of international and institutional networks on which to draw in order to support student recruitment and training.

The cluster also commits to providing cross-cluster training where possible, and to hosting a cohort-wide networking or programme event hosted by The Dear Green Bothy at the new University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre (ARC).

Procedures for Applications

How-to-Apply:

The online application for the British Council SGSAH Earth Scholarship must be submitted through the SGSAH website. The following paperwork is required of applicants:

• A complete research proposal, as well as information on how participating in Cluster activities such as cohort building, training, and development, can help you.
• A resource rationale and budget.
• A CV (up to 4 pages).
• A letter of support (up to 2 pages) from your PhD advisor.
• A letter of support from the suggested Host Institution (head of department or equivalent; maximum length: 2 pages)

1 November 2023 is the application deadline.

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