School of Environment, Education and Development Enhancing Racial Equality (SERE) Studentship 2025 Entry

• Tuition fees
• An annual maintenance stipend (£19,237 per annum for 2024/25)

The School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED) is pleased to announce the award of Enhancing Racial Equality Scholarship for September 2025 entry.

SEED is committed to truly engaging with principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion, including recognising those systemic barriers to inclusion, and we aim to ensure our student cohort reflects the diverse community we serve. We recognise that the entire HE sector needs to do more to adopt an anti-racist and inclusive agenda. This studentship is one of the ways that SEED is addressing the challenges.

This scholarship is open to Home (UK) applicants and offer holders who identify as Black and Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME)/People of Colour.

3.5 years full-time or 7 years part-time

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You must meet the academic requirements of your programme. For most programmes in the School of Environment, Education and Development, this is:

• Bachelor's (Honours) degree at 2:1 or above (or overseas equivalent); and
• Master's degree in a relevant subject - with an overall average of 60% or above, a minimum mark of 60% in your dissertation (or overseas equivalent)

The scholarship is open to Home applicants and offer holders who identify as Black and Asian Minority Ethnic / People of Colour.

Applicants must provide evidence of English language proficiency with their application. If English language is an outstanding condition of your offer, you must meet this by 28 February 2025 . If you do not meet this, we cannot include your application in the competition.

Acceptable evidence includes:

• IELTS test minimum score - 7.0 overall, 7.0 in writing, 6.0 in other sections.
• TOEFL (internet based) test minimum score - 100 overall, 25 in all sections.
• To demonstrate that you have taken an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in a majority English speaking nation within the last 5 years.
• Other tests may be considered .

You must submit your online application for a place on your chosen Postgraduate Research programme by 20 January 2025. This is to ensure you hold an offer of a place by the time the school committee make their selection.

Your programme application should contain all necessary supporting documents. Section 9 of the application asks for your funding intentions. Please add a funding source, and populate the fields as below:

• Type of Funding: Uni of Manchester Scheme
• Awarding Body (free text): SEED SERE Studentship
• Status of Funding: Intend to Apply

Please note that there is no separate funding application form for School of Environment, Education and Development SERE Studentship. All decisions are based on the online programme application and supporting documents.

Your full online application must include;

• A 1,500 word PhD research proposal. Times New Roman, Font 12 (exclusive of references). Please state the word count on page 1 of the document.
• A copy of your Bachelor's and Master's academic transcript and certificate. If your Master's degree is pending, please provide an interim transcript.
• An up-to-date academic CV summarising your academic record, employment history, publications and highlighting experience demonstrating your research potential.
• The names of two academic referees, including one from your most recent institution. Your referees will be contacted directly via the Referee Portal following the submission of your application form.
• A certificate or evidence demonstrating your English language ability and proficiency.

School of Environment, Education and Development Postgraduate Research Committee (PGRC)

Your complete online application for your preferred PhD programme must be submitted by  20 January 2025 .

Please note that this is a strict deadline and late or incomplete applications will not be included in the competition.

We expect to communicate the outcome to applicants by 30 May 2025.

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide feedback on individual applications, as outcomes are determined by independent panels.

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.