PhD scholarship in Global Digital Humanities - September

Application period opens
Sunday 1 June 2025
Application period closes
Thursday 31 July 2025
Entry
2025

You will join an intellectually vibrant and internationally connected research environment that draws on expertise from eight language areas, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian and Spanish, and collaborates with the School of Computer Science. This is your opportunity to gain advanced technical and analytical skills while contributing original research to the evolving landscape of digital scholarship in the humanities.

We welcome proposals across a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to: 

  • Digital Pedagogy  
  • Digital Publishing and Encoding 
  • Digital Preservation and Archival Practice  
  • Digital Storytelling  
  • Languages and Technology 
  • Memory Studies in the Digital Age 
  • Quantitative Literary Analysis  
  • Transmediation through gaming 

Value of award (per year)

One scholarship comprising full tuition fees and a stipend for three years.

Duration of award

3 years

At what stage of my course application can I apply for this scholarship?

There is no separate application. In your application for admission, indicate that you wish to be considered for this scholarship. All eligible applications received by the specified closing date will be considered.

Application restrictions

Study level

Available to students studying at:

Postgraduate

Subjects

Available to students studying:

Available to students studying Digital Humanities

Domicile for fee status

Scotland home, Rest of UK, Overseas

Schools

Available to students in the following Schools and Departments:

Modern Languages

Application assessment

Academic merit

Available to

Prospective students

Mode of study

Full time

Geographical criteria

No restrictions

Additional criteria

The scholarship is available to students starting their studies in September 2025.

How to apply

This scholarship is available as part of the PhD application.

Terms and conditions

Please read the University of St Andrews scholarships terms and conditions.

No offer of funding will be issued before a conditional or unconditional course offer has been made.

When will I know the outcome?

The outcome of your scholarship application will be available on View my applications in the Scholarships and funding section of My Application by mid-July 2025.