Doctoral Landscape Award: Collaborative Doctoral Award

The Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) Doctoral Landscape Award (Collaborative Doctoral Award) is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). In 2026, the AHRC will launch the Doctoral Landscape Award, a new funding scheme designed to invest in the arts and humanities and to enable outstanding students to pursue top-quality collaborative, cohort-based, and interdisciplinary research training. The University of Stirling will offer one DLA as a Collaborative Doctoral Award, in which a funded student will undertake a project in partnership with the University and a non-academic partnership. These highly-competitive and prestigious scholarships provide tuition fees, an annual stipend, access to state-of-the-art training and skills development, research funds, and opportunities to collaborate with peers within and beyond the academy. The award provides full university fees at home rate during the funded period, an annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate for the baseline study period of 3.5 years, access to a DLA Training Programme comprising three components (Cohort Leadership Programme, Skills Developments Spokes, and Knowledge Exchange Hubs), an additional Individual Training Allowance for research and training activities, and access to additional funding for travel requirements between partner organisations.