The School is offering 63 full scholarships for new PhD students. The scholarships cover fees and living expenses of £18,000 each year for four years. They are available for Home UK/EU and Overseas students undertaking full time research in any LSE discipline, with annual renewal subject to satisfactory academic performance at the School. Studentships will be awarded on academic merit and research potential.
Each academic department will be allowed to nominate a limited number of candidates for the awards. Award decisions will be made by a Panel representing different academic disciplines within the School. The awards will be made solely on outstanding academic merit and research potential. This relates not only to your past academic record, but also to an assessment of your chosen topic and to your likely aptitude to complete a PhD in the time allocated.
The studentships include a requirement that scholars contribute to their academic department as part of their research training, in the form of providing teaching or other work in their department, usually from year two onwards.
There is no separate application form for these awards. The selection of students for these awards will be based on the PhD application to the School. There will be three rounds of studentship selection, with a deadline attached to each round. Application deadlines are as follows:
12 January 2015 (including consideration for ESRC funding)
27 April 2015
If you wish to be considered for an award, you must submit a complete application for a place on a PhD programme (including all supporting documentation such as references and transcripts) by the specified deadline.
LSE IDEAS Centre, in association with the International History and International Relations Departments is proud to invite applications for the three-year Stonex PhD Scholarship. The scheme awards two PhD scholarships, one to a student in the LSE International Relations Department and one to the student in the LSE International History Department. Applicants must be registered full-time, approaching the second year of their PhD Programme and, in the case of the International History Department, to have successfully passed their upgrade viva.
The Stonex PhD scholarship covers both student fees and living costs. It is awarded every three years to two students demonstrating exceptional academic ability and achievement.
More information on the LSE IDEAS Stonex PhD Scholarships
You must be a fully registered student of the School to apply for financial assistance. Students registered on the MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing are not eligible. This is because tuition fees are paid to LSHTM instead of LSE.
If you have reached the end of your degree programme, including submission of a PhD thesis, you are ineligible to apply.
If you are repeating an academic year as a private, unregistered candidate, you are ineligible to apply.
Full and part time students are eligible to apply.
Home UK, Home EU and Overseas students are eligible to apply.
You may apply more than once during an academic year but normally only if your circumstances change.
The normal maximum award available is £3,500. Larger awards may be made in very exceptional cases. If the amount you require to complete the academic year is higher than £3,500, we will need evidence of how you propose to close the gap from other sources before we can process your application. If you require a significant amount of support beyond £3,500, it may be advisable to consider interrupting your programme of study to address your financial difficulties.
Download the In-Course Financial Support application form (PDF) and read more about the In-Course Financial Support.
Are you within a year of submitting your thesis? If so you are eligible to apply for final year funding from the School, the aim of which is to support you to the point of submission particularly if you are in danger of missing your deadline because of financial difficulties.The School recognises that many PhD students will have exhausted the funding source(s) they originally planned to use to finance themselves and that some students need slightly longer than three years in which to complete their thesis.
Registered students who are in the final stages of a PhD may therefore wish to apply for In-course financial support. This is particularly relevant if you have been funded for the first three years of your study by a scholarship or Research Council studentship and this has now ended. Or if you are close to finishing but cannot quite reach the point of submission because of financial difficulties.Awards under this scheme vary in size and are aimed at supplementing any teaching or other income you may have to enable you to submit within the normal maximum period of registration.
Academic supervisors will be asked to support applications from students in this position, and to confirm that the student is indeed very close to completion. Please note that students who have already submitted their thesis and are awaiting their viva are not eligible.
This support is not appropriate for MRes or MPhil level students, or PhD students who have knowingly registered under-funded for their research programme.This funding is assessed using the in-course financial support form.
To apply you are asked to complete the in-course support form. However, unlike the Student Support Fund there is no requirement on you to show that you are in need of funds by reason of an unexpected circumstance. We welcome applications from those whose funding (external, School, ESRC, AHRC) ended after three years of study, or who are self funding.
Awards under this scheme vary in size, and are aimed at supplementing any income you may have to enable you to complete within the normal maximum period of registration.
Academic supervisors will be asked to support applications and to confirm when submission is anticipated. Please note that students who have already submitted their thesis and are awaiting their viva are not eligible.
To access the form for completion please follow this link.
When you submit the form, please mark it ‘Final Year PhD Fund’ at the top.
If you have any questions or wish to discuss your situation with a member of the team please email: financial-support@lse.ac.uk