A number of Teaching Scholarships will be available to PhD candidates beginning courses in October 2008. Teaching scholarships offer tuition fees (at the home/EU rate), a stipend for 3.5 years and a defined teaching role and training programme. They offer the chance to gain valuable teaching experience and career development at the same time as carrying out doctoral research. The teaching workload, including training, preparation and marking time, will be 90 hours per year (equivalent of a half day per week, based on a three-hour session, during term time, i.e. for 30 weeks per year).
Eligibility
Full-time PhD candidates (UK, EU and overseas). Only candidates who have or expect to obtain at least a first or upper second class honours degree (or equivalent) should apply. Please note that some departments may also require a masters degree. Candidates whose first language is not English must obtain an IELTS score of 7.0 or above (or equivalent).
Value of scholarship
Tuition fee (at the home/EU rate) and a partial stipend of at least £5,000 for 3.5 years (or 2.5 years for existing students entering their second year). Overseas candidates will be required to demonstrate, before the offer of an award is confirmed, that they have sufficient funds to cover the balance of the overseas tuition fee.
Availability
Departments go through an internal bidding process between September and November each year to establish the distribution of these scholarships among Departments.
Awards for entry are tenable in the following Departments:
- Archaeology: Historical Archaeology
- Chemistry: Any branch
- Economics : Microeconomics / Macroeconomics
- Electronics: Project support for MSc Internet and Mobile Communications Systems
- Electronics: Project teaching support for MSc Communications Engineering
- Health Sciences: Health Services Research - Inequalities in help-seeking
- History: Medieval / Early Modern / Modern History
- Politics: Core Modules
- Psychology: Experimental Psychology
- Social Policy and Social Work: Topic is dependent on whether awardee is a social policy or social work student
- Theatre, Film and Television: Teaching on BA in Theatre, Film and Television and MA
- Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance (this studentship is open to an existing student who will be entering the second year of their PhD
Application procedure and deadline
Please apply using the PhD studentship application form. The application deadline is 30 April each year. Successful candidates will be notified of the result of their application by the department concerned. Candidates who have not heard by mid July should assume that their application has not been successful.
Alternatively you may contact the University for application forms (telephone 01904 433683 or fax 01904 434039 or e-mail graduate@york.ac.uk).
Please let us know:
- your name
- your address
- whether you are interested in a research award or a masters scholarship
Completed forms should be returned to the Graduate Schools Office, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
More info: http://www.york.ac.uk/graduatestudy/finance/pg_award/teaching.htm
