Postgraduate Scholarships

Do you want to make a difference to the development of your home country? 30 scholarships are offering 100% tuition fee and 75 scholarships are offering 50% towards tuition fee.

You can apply for this scholarship if you:

• are a national of (or permanently domiciled in) Africa, India or one of the countries of the Commonwealth* AND
• are classed as an overseas student for fee purposes AND
• already hold an offer to start a full-time Masters degree programme (including MRes) at Nottingham in 2012 in one of the identified study areas including the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences.

Apply for the Developing Solutions Masters Scholarship here.

The closing date for applications is 16th May 2012.

* Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Kiribati, Malaysia, Maldives, Montserrat, Nauru, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn, St Helena, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tristan da Cunha, Turks and Caicos, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa.

We are now accepting applications for the fully-funded Clinical Academic Careers Training Masters Studentships at The University of Nottingham, starting in September 2012.

These Studentships will provide full tuition fees and employee salaries to cover employer's back-fill costs for students to undertake a Masters Degree in Research Methods at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy.

This is an exceptional opportunity to develop your research skills and generate evidence that makes a real difference to clinical practice at one of the leading health education providers in the UK. The deadline for applications is 12 noon on Friday 25th May 2012.

Full details are available on the Clinical Academic Careers Training Masters Studentship webpage.

The University of Nottingham is one of only 21 Economic and Social Research Council Doctoral Training Centres in the UK, producing the next generation of world-class social scientists. As a result we are proud to offer a limited number of ESRC-funded PhD studentships starting in September 2012.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD that includes a social science and healthcare element, we strongly encourage you to make contact with an academic in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy who is interested in working with you and your research. Click here for a full list of supervisors.

Read more about the ESRC DTC here

The closing date for applications has now passed.

We are delighted to announce a new interdisciplinary PhD Studentship, commencing 1 October 2012 and jointly supervised by the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy and the School of Sociology and Social Policy.

The PhD will focus on exploring the experiences of, and outcomes for, young people living with and caring for a parent with palliative care needs. This project will be of interest to students with a background in sociology, social policy, social work and related social sciences and/or the health care professions.

The scholarship offers the equivalent Home/EU tuition fees in addition to a £13,590 yearly stipend for three years, subject to satisfactory progress. International applicants are also welcome, however note that additional funds would need to be secured in order to make up the International tuition fees amount.

The closing date for applications is 11 May 2012. Ref. MED/1057.

The closing date for applications has now passed.

We are delighted to announce a new interdisciplinary PhD Studentship, commencing 1 October 2012 and jointly supervised by the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy and the Division of Psychiatry, School of Community Health Sciences.

This project may be of interest to students with a background in psychology or the health care professions. The STAK (Steps to Active Kids) programme is a home-based exercise DVD and educational resource developed to increase exercise self-efficacy and to help young people with long-term health conditions to become more active. This PhD study will investigate whether the children find STAK usable and useful, and what effects it has on their exercise self-efficacy (confidence to exercise), physical and mental health outcomes, and their diabetes control.

This studentship offers the equivalent Home/EU tuition fees in addition to a yearly stipend of approx. £13,590 for three years, subject to satisfactory progress. International applicants are also welcome, however they will need to secure the additional funds required to make up the full International tuition fee amount.

Follow this link for more information and details on how to apply

The closing date for applications is 15 June 2012. Ref. MED/1066.

We are pleased to invite applications from suitably qualified students for a PhD studentship commencing 1 October 2012, supervised by Dr Gary Adams and Dr Richard Windle at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Physiotherapy, with joint funding from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

This PhD aims to explore the methods of glycaemic control therapy ICU patients receive across hospital settings, with the intention of establishing a new glycaemic protocol that can be used on an individualistic basis for different groups of patients within the ITU setting.

The studentship offers the equivalent Home/EU tuition fees in addition to a yearly stipend of approx. £13,590 for three years, subject to satisfactory progress. International applicants are also welcome, however they will need to secure the additional funds required to make up the full International tuition fee amount.

Follow this link for more information and details on how to apply.

The closing date for applications is 25 June 2012. Ref. MED/1067.

We are delighted to announce a new PhD Studentship commencing 1 October 2012, to explore young people’s understandings of health, including an in-depth examination of the various factors that may frame young people’s meanings and experiences of health in a variety of contexts (school, community, home).

The PhD will include a closer examination of how age, gender and social position may impact on and influence young girls’ and young boys’ experiences of health in schools – paying particular attention to the ways in which schools differentially take-up and respond to children and young people’s health.

This studentship will pay Home/EU tuition fees for three years and will also provide an annual tax-free maintenance grant to the student over three years of £13,590, subject to satisfactory progress. International applicants are also welcome, however they will need to secure the additional funds required to make up the full International tuition fee amount.

Follow this link for more information and details on how to apply

The closing date for applications is 10 July 2012. Ref. MED/1070

Applications are now invited for the 2012-13 round of Research Scholarships.

The Florence Nightingale Foundation raises funds to provide scholarships for nurses and midwives to enable them, through study, to promote innovation in practice and to extend knowledge and skills to meet changing needs.

The Research Scholarships award funds to undertake a course in research methods, research modules or a dissertation/thesis as part of an academic course of study. The Foundation will also consider doctoral studies and post doctoral research projects. The outcome of the research should result in clinical improvement and evidence-based care for patients and clients.

Click to apply for the Florence Nightingale Research Scholarships.

The closing date for applications is 18th May 2012.

The NIHR/CNO Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship is aimed at post-degree nurses, midwives and allied health professionals sited in England who have at least 1 year's experience of clinical practice since graduating; have had sufficient research experience or research training to prepare them to undertake a PhD; and wish to obtain a PhD by research whilst still developing their clinical skills.

Follow this link for more information on Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowships.

Follow this link for a range of Doctoral Studentship opportunities funded by the MRC.

A range of University and external funding opportunities for Masters students:

• University funding for prospective UK and EU Masters students
• International Office Masters scholarship opportunities for International students
• Masters Studentships advertised on Jobs.ac.uk
• Masters Studentships advertised on on postgraduatestudentships.co.uk

A range of University and external funding opportunities for Doctoral students:

• University funding for prospective UK and EU Doctoral Research students
• International Office Doctoral scholarship opportunities for International students
• University of Nottingham vacancies for Doctoral Studentships
• RD Funding Studentships
• Doctoral Studentships advertised on Jobs.ac.uk
• Doctoral Studentships adverstised on postgraduatestudentships.co.uk