AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP) PhD Studentships 2025 Entry

Subject to residential eligibility status, the award covers:

• Tuition fees
• Maintenance stipend (the annual maintenance stipend for 2024-25 is £19,237)
• A research training support grant
• Opportunities to apply for additional funding towards overseas fieldwork, difficult language training, overseas institutional visits, and internships
• An additional disability allowance can be provided where appropriate

Students opting to study part-time will receive a pro-rata maintenance stipend.

• +3 - covering a full PhD programme
• +2 - covering 2 years of study for current postgraduate researchers

Please see Additional Information the +2 application process.

Studentships available for both part-time and full-time programmes.

A number of awards are available on a competitive basis.

You must meet the minimum academic requirements for your preferred programme, in addition to those specified by the AHRC NWCDTP.

Please refer to the application guidance on the AHRC NWCDTP website.

Stage 1:

You must submit a complete programme application for your chosen PhD programme by the funding deadline for your school (below). This is to ensure you hold an offer by the time of the NWCDTP committee. Otherwise, you will not be included in the competition.

Section 9 of the application asks for your funding intentions. Add a funding source and populate this as below:

Type of Funding: Research Council

Awarding Body (free text): AHRC NWCDTP

Status of Funding: Intend to Apply

Stage 2:

The completed AHRC NWCDTP Application Form and Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form must be submitted to the Humanities Doctoral Academy via hums.doctoralacademy.admissions@manchester.ac.uk no later than 5pm GMT 3 February 2025. Please note that this is a strict deadline and applications received after 5pm will not be included in the competition.

The academic transcripts and references submitted with your programme application will be attached to your AHRC NWCDTP application form and provided to the panels for review.

As such, to be considered in the AHRC NWCDTP competition, please request both of your referees to provide their references by 3 February 2024. If your referee cannot meet this timeframe, please attach a reference from an alternate referee with your funding application. If we have not received two references by 3 February, we may not be able to consider your AHRC NWCDTP application.

AHRC NWCDTP specifies that research proposals must be no longer than 1500 words. If you revise your research proposal following submission of your programme application, please attach the latest draft of your proposal along with the AHRC NWCDTP application form in your email to hums.doctoralacademy.admissions@manchester.ac.uk.

• Academic merit and preparedness for research
• Quality and feasibility of research proposal
• Consideration of ethical responsibility

Please see the Assessment Criteria detailed on the AHRC NWCDTP website.

Applications are reviewed through a series of panels at School level, by AHRC NWCDTP Pathway representatives and leads, and by AHRC NWCDTP Institutional leads.

All AHRC NWCDTP Applications must be received by the Humanities Doctoral Academy before 5pm, 3 February 2025.

In advance of this, you must submit your completed programme application by the dates specified below to ensure you hold an offer at the time of funding selection (not applicable to +2):

Alliance Manchester Business School: 1 December 2024
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures: 13 January 2025
School of Education, Environment and Development: 13 January 2025
School of Social Sciences: 1 December 2024
Department of Philosophy: 13 January 2025

Please note that all deadlines are strict and applications received after 5pm or incomplete applications will not be included in the competition.

We expect to communicate the outcome to 2025 entry applicants by 9 May 2025.

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide feedback on individual applications, as outcomes are determined by several panels across a number of institutions.

Offers of funding are not deferrable. If you cannot start your programme by the date mentioned in your studentship offer letter, the award will be withdrawn. You are permitted to re-apply in future.

+2 Applications:

To be eligible for +2 funding, you must be enrolled upon a PhD Programme at the University of Manchester with at least 2 years remaining, and you must meet the academic requirements for +3 funding, specified above. To apply, please submit your latest 1500 word research proposal along with the completed AHRC NWCDTP application form to the Humanities Doctoral Academy via hums.doctoralacademy.admissions@manchester.ac.uk no later than 5pm GMT, 3 February 2025.

We may also reach out to you to request your academic transcripts and references, if we do not already have them.