ACU Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentships Program 2025/2026 for Ph.D. Students (GBP 5,500 award) – Opportunities For Africans

333

Application Deadline:

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025/2026 ACU Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentships Program. The Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth PhD Studentships present help for analysis tasks on Commonwealth-related themes within the humanities and social sciences.

Proposed analysis should meet at the very least one of many following standards: 

• Relate to the Commonwealth as an entire or to any Commonwealth-wide establishment or organisation.
• Have a Commonwealth comparative side.
• Be of relevance to a couple of Commonwealth nation.

Successful candidates can be required to submit an article of between 4,000 and 6,000 phrases based mostly on their analysis, for consideration for publication in The Round Table journal. They can even be required to make a podcast on their analysis, for publication on the journal’s web site. 

Mentorship

As part of the studentship, candidates are required to establish and work with a mentor at a college in a Commonwealth country apart from that during which they’re based mostly. This ought to be an skilled in a topic linked to the applicant’s topic of analysis, who will be capable to present help and recommendation in the course of the studentship.

The mentor can be anticipated to carry a minimal of two digital conferences with the scholar in the course of the interval of the studentship. They can be anticipated to keep up a correspondence with the scholar by electronic mail to share their experiences of their related subject, present recommendation round publishing, occasions and tendencies of their subject, and to problem and empower the scholar to contemplate new methods of considering. 

Requirements

• Applications are welcomed from a broad vary of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.
• Preference could also be given to disciplines often lined by The Round Table journal, together with (however not solely) politics, worldwide relations, economics, worldwide historical past, geography, regulation, improvement research, and space research. 
• Applicants from STEM is not going to be accepted except the analysis proposal clearly addresses a policy-related theme. 
• It shouldn’t be anticipated that the applicant’s PhD/DPhil analysis already has a Commonwealth focus. Applications are notably welcomed the place the award will allow the applicant so as to add a Commonwealth dimension to the work. 

Benefits

Two studentships can be found every with a most worth of GBP 5,500: 

• One for PhD college students registered at UK universities.
• One for PhD college students registered at ACU member universities in Commonwealth nations apart from the UK.  

How to apply

For More Information:

funding–Opportunities/for-students/studentships/routledgeround-table-commonwealth-studentships/” goal=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Visit the Official Webpage of the ACU Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentships Program