Doctoral Landscape Award: Student-Led Competition

The SGSAH Doctoral Landscape Award (Student-Led Competition) provides funding for arts and humanities students to conduct interdisciplinary research training. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Doctoral Landscape Award is 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 award will fund fifty British universities, organized within 7 regional Hubs, to offer fifteen doctoral studentships (3 per annum) between 2026-2030. 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. In Scotland, the DLA is delivered through the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH), with the University of Stirling being one of 7 HEIs that make up the SGSAH Doctoral Landscape Award Hub, alongside the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Strathclyde, and St Andrews.