Sir Henry Thomas Scholarship for postgraduate study in Hispanic Studies
- Level of study
- Doctoral research
- Subject area
- Modern Languages and Cultures
- Nationality
- EU, Overseas (Non-EU), UK
- Type of Award
- Charity/Trust
- Deadline for applying
- Closes 13/01/2025
Award Description
We are seeking applications from outstanding candidates for a postgraduate scholarship for research in Hispanic Studies. Research topics in Hispanic Studies can include, but are not limited to:
- Arts/Social science frontier
- Creative Industries
- Digital Media
- Global heritage
- Intercultural relations
- Responsible innovations
- Social justice
- Transformative humanities
We invite projects covering any types of cultural artefacts (including in translation) and/or languages relevant to any cultures and/or community of speakers of languages in all historical periods related to the discipline of Hispanic Studies, broadly conceived in cultural and geographical terms.
Special consideration will be given to applications touching aspects that include any combination of the items listed below:
Disciplines
- Comparative studies
- Critical theory
- Cultural studies
- Film studies
- History
- Linguistics
- Literary studies
- Modern languages
- Visual cultures
Fields of study
- Critical theory
- Cultural memory and postmemory
- Gender and sexuality
- Genre studies
- Heritage languages
- Language contact and change
- Life-writing
- Morphosyntax
- Textual editing
- World (-) literature
Approaches
- Archival
- Community-based
- Decolonial
- Ecocritical
- Historic
- National
- Participatory
- Postcolonial
- Practice-based
- Transmedia
- Transnational
- Visual/ art historical
Areas
- Africa
- Europe
- Iberia
- Ibero-Romance
- Indigenous cultures
- Latin America
- Migration and exile cultures
Value of Award
The Sir Henry Thomas Scholarship provides Home fees and a stipend of £12,100 for three years, subject to satisfactory progress. The successful candidate would commence study between September 2025 and January 2026.
International sudents can apply and if successful the Home fee will be a contribution to the Overseas Fee.
Eligibility Criteria
Candidates should have a first class or upper second class degree (or equivalent) in a relevant subject. To apply for the Doctoral award candidates should also have completed, or be completing, a masters degree in a relevant subject.
This award is not available to current Doctoral students.
How to Apply
Applications for all Doctoral Scholarships for the College of Arts and Law should be submitted through the Arts and Humanities Research Council funding website. Students can find more information about Arts and Humanities Research Council funding through the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership website.
All eligible Arts and Humanities Research Council funding applications and Economic and Social Research Council funding will be considered for the Music Scholarship. Please note that other schemes are available that have alternative processes and may require a separate application.
For queries specifically related to your application please email calpg-research@contacts.bham.ac.uk
The deadline to submit an application is at 12pm on Monday 13 January 2025.
If you have already made an application for Arts and Humanities Research Council funding through the Midlands4Cities consortium, or for another College of Arts and Law scholarship, your application will automatically be considered for the Sir Henry Thomas Scholarship, if eligible, without you having to make additional applications. Please note, other schemes are available that have alternative processes and require a separate application. This includes Economic and Social Research Council funding.