Eligible applications received by the funding deadline will be considered for the opportunities below:
LSE PhD studentships and ESRC +3 studentships
Application deadline: 16 December 2022
Department release deadline: 3 January 2023
Allocation method: Department panel direct allocation
Number of scholarships awarded for 2022/23 entry (indicative information): x6
Number of scholarships available for 2023/24 entry: TBC
Further information: LSE PhD Scholarships and ESRC studentships
For these scholarships, the department makes awards and reserve nominations. Offers will generally be made by LSE’s Financial Support Office, on the department panel’s behalf. If award offers are declined, they are re-offered to reserve candidates. The department does not rank its reserve candidates, as these decisions are affected by a number of factors, with an overarching focus on ensuring that each of the department's PhD programmes is able to recruit at least one School-funded student. In addition, as other scholarships decisions are made elsewhere in the School and by external funding bodies at a variety of different points in the year, we cannot guarantee that any declined LSE PhD scholarships or ESRC studentships will be immediately re-offered.
LSE PhD scholarships on ‘Analysing and Challenging Inequalities’
Programme eligibility: Any G&E MPhil/PhD programme
Application deadline: TBC
Department release deadline: TBC
Allocation method: The International Inequalities Institute (III) permits departments to make nominations to its scholarships panel ('the III panel') for ACI scholarships. Though the department is not guaranteed to receive any ACI scholarships, it has a track record of securing these.
Number of scholarships available for 2023/24 entry: TBC
Nominations permitted for 2023/24 entry: TBC
Awards made for 2022/23 entry: 0
Further information: Analysing and Challenging Inequalities
Please note: If you would like to be considered for this funding stream, please reference in your application how your research will fit into the themes of this funding, as set out in the further information page linked to above.
Nominations are made in February, with decisions made by the III panel in March, and results announced by the School's Financial Support Office in April. Alongside awards, the ACI panel lists a school-wide 1st round reserve ranking. This means that if any ACI scholarship offers are declined before the 2nd nomination round begins, they are re-offered to the next-ranked reserve candidate in the School-wide reserve list.
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment scholarships
Programme eligibility: MPhil/PhD in Environmental Economics and MPhil/PhD in Environmental Policy and Development
Application deadline: 16 December 2022
Department release deadline: 3 January 2022
Allocation method: The Doctoral Programme Directors for the MPhil/PhD in Environmental Economics and the MPhil/PhD in Environmental Policy and Development are invited to discuss eligible candidates with the GRI's scholarships panel. Though the department is not guaranteed to receive any GRI scholarships, it usually receives at least one each year.
Further information: GRI funding. Decisions about GRI funding are generally made by the GRI scholarship panel at the end of February/beginning of March.
ESRC 1+3 studentships for prospective MSc applicants
Students may wish to apply for one of the below programmes, as appropriate, with a view to applying for an ESRC 1+3 research studentship. If successful in obtaining an ESRC grant, a student would be entitled to continue to the relevant MPhil/PhD programme upon satisfactory completion of the Master’s.
Information about how to apply for an ESRC 1+3 scholarship can be found here. 1+3 scholarships are only offered by the ESRC. It is therefore not possible to apply for 1+3 admission on a self-funded or externally funded basis.
Application deadline: 16 December 2022
Please note:
- Admissions and scholarships processes in the Department of Geography and Environment are entirely separate. This means that you will only be considered for an ESRC 1+3 scholarship if you are offered a place to study with the Department on one of our MSc programmes first.
- MSc offer holders who are being considered for an ESRC 1+3 scholarship will be interviewed. Further guidance can be found here.
- If you are admitted to one of our MSc programmes, but are not offered ESRC 1+3 funding, your admissions offer will still be valid.
- If you accept your offer of a place to study on one of our MSc programmes without securing ESRC 1+3 funding, you will be able to apply for admission to one of our PhD programmes while studying.
- Guidance about research proposals for ESRC 1+3 applicants can be found here.