SOAS University of London 2025/2026 Master’s Scholarships for Anthropology and Mental Health: Apply Now

Newly established throughout the SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology, CAMHRA is a globally oriented and regionally related hub for cutting-edge anthropological analysis, training, and public engagement on psychological well being. Working with companions throughout academia, statutory healthcare, and coverage, and alongside providers customers, CAMHRA contributes distinctly anthropological views to a rising world understanding of how societies can perceive and reply to psychological misery and construct efficient methods of care.

Postgraduate study at CAMHRA is open to folks from a variety of skilled and tutorial backgrounds. Our cutting-edge MA in Medical Anthropology and Mental Health incorporates numerous views from social, cultural, medical, and psychological anthropology and permits college students to conduct their very own authentic analysis. The CAMHRA Master’s scholarship can also be open to candidates to the MRes Social Anthropology. This programme is for those that already maintain a level in BA and/or grasp’s in social/cultural anthropology and want to pursue postgraduate analysis on a subject within the discipline of anthropology and psychological well being. The MRes is usually undertaken in preparation for PhD analysis.

CAMHRA Scholarships are designed to supply alternatives for individuals who wouldn’t in any other case study anthropology or ethnographic strategies on account of present time, monetary, and social constraints. Specifically, we search functions from candidates who’re presently working in or have lived expertise of psychological well being providers; and these from underrepresented teams.

We hope to assist such candidates in constructing distinctive anthropological analysis abilities, and in making use of them to their lives or skilled contexts. In your scholarship application, please specify the experiences that you just carry to the programme, and the analysis undertaking that you just hope to conduct.

Each full-time scholarship covers 2025/26 tuition charges in full. For part-time college students finding out over two years, the award will present funding for 2025/26 and 2026/27 tuition charges. The scholarship doesn’t embody a stipend for lodging and dwelling prices.

Webinar: Introduction to the MA Medical Anthropology and Mental Health

Members of the CAMHRA staff will share details about the MA Medical Anthropology and Mental Health and learn how to construct a robust application to the CAMHRA Master’s Scholarships. Join us on Thursday, 3 April 2025 at 1:00pm London time (BST/GMT +1).

Eligible programmes

Candidate standards

• The scholarship is open to UK and Overseas candidates.
• Applicants for the scholarship for MA Medical Anthropology and Mental Health should maintain a minimal 2:1 bachelor’s diploma in a social science or humanities topic; OR in well being sciences together with medication, psychology, nursing, social work.
• Applicants for MRes Social Anthropology should maintain a minimal 2:1 bachelor’s or grasp’s diploma in Anthropology.
• All candidates should have a robust concept for a analysis undertaking that makes use of ethnographic strategies to grasp a difficulty associated to psychological well being.
• Scholarship candidates should have submitted their application to the MA or MRes programme to SOAS however should not required to have obtained a proposal of admission by the scholarship deadline.
• Please word that this scholarship doesn’t cowl funding for pre-sessional programs.

Preference could also be given to

• Candidates with lived expertise of working in or accessing psychological well being care as knowledgeable or service person.
• Candidates from underrepresented and minoritised teams.

Candidate evaluation

• Candidates can be assessed by a Selection Panel primarily based on their tutorial benefit, analysis proposal, private assertion, and responses to scholarship application prompts.
• The evaluation of your application can be primarily based on the data supplied in your scholarship application and in your on-line application for admission.
• Shortlisted candidates can be despatched an invite to on-line interviews by mid-late May.
• Late or incomplete functions won’t be thought-about.

Scholarship application procedures

To apply for this scholarship, candidates ought to full the next steps:

Step 1

Apply for your programme

Step 2

Apply for the scholarship by 11:59pm UK native time on 30 April 2025. You should apply for this scholarship by way of the online application form.

Step 3

Shortlisted candidates can be invited to interview by mid-late May 2025. Interviews can be carried out on-line. Precise interview dates can be confirmed at a later stage.

Notification

The scholarship shortlisting and awarding interval is predicted to be accomplished by the top of June 2025 on the earliest. Successful candidates can be contacted first, and as soon as all awards have been allotted, unsuccessful candidates can be notified.

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