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School of Education Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Education, Childhood or Youth 2026/27 (UK)

The School of Education at the University of Leeds is offering one highly competitive scholarship for academic year 2025/26. This scholarship provides full fees with a tax-free maintenance allowance that matches UKRI rates (currently £20,780 in 2025/26) and rises annually in line with UKRI rates. The award is open to full-time and part-time candidates who have been offered a place on a PhD degree at the School of Education. The School of Education is an intellectually rich and stimulating environment for postgraduate research, recognising Education as a hub for many disciplinary perspectives, all contributing to challenge-led, global, and transformative research with social justice at its core. All postgraduate researchers are members of one of the Research Centres, creating a hub of internationally leading research across interdisciplinary teams in: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Policy; Digital Education; Language Education Research; and Inclusion, Childhood and Youth. Applications are invited that connect to the School's core research areas of inclusion, childhood and youth, language education, digital education, curriculum, pedagogy and policy. The scholarship particularly welcomes applications in the areas of: inclusion in higher education; creativity and play in education, assessment in higher education, performing arts for inclusion, maths education, cognitive theory and language teacher, learner motivation, child and pupil wellbeing and EMI (English as medium of instruction). Outstanding candidates without a Masters will be considered for an additional fully-funded year to complete one of the taught masters programmes.

Leeds Masters Scholarships

Leeds Masters Scholarships are worth £7,000 and aim to encourage eligible UK fee-paying students from under-represented groups to study a Masters qualification at the University of Leeds. For successful applicants, the scholarship can be awarded as a fee waiver or as monthly payments direct to the recipient. These scholarships are funded by a combination of generous alumni donations and University funding. Successful applicants are automatically registered on the University's Plus Programme which offers many free and bespoke activities, extra funding opportunities and more. The scholarship is available for full-time, part-time, or distance learning Masters programmes leading to MA, MBA, MEd, MMus, MPH, MRes, MSc, LLM or Masters by Research qualifications. Applicants must be paying postgraduate tuition fees at the UK rate, not already hold a Masters degree, and meet specific financial eligibility criteria based on previous maintenance loan amounts or current income levels.