ACU Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentships 2025 (up to £5,500) – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2025

Applications are open for the ACU Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentships 2025. The Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth PhD Studentships present assist for analysis initiatives on Commonwealth-related themes within the humanities and social sciences.

As part of the studentship, candidates are required to establish and work with a mentor at a college in a Commonwealth nation apart from that through which they’re primarily based. This must be an professional in a topic linked to the applicant’s topic of analysis, who shall be ready to present assist and recommendation throughout the studentship.

The mentor shall be anticipated to maintain a minimal of two digital conferences with the coed throughout the interval of the studentship. They shall be anticipated to keep in touch with the coed by e-mail to share their experiences of their related discipline, present recommendation round publishing, occasions and traits of their discipline, and to problem and empower the coed to think about new methods of pondering.

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.  

Eligibility

• 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, growth research, and space research.
• Applicants from STEM is not going to be accepted except the analysis proposal clearly addresses a coverage-associated theme.
• It just isn’t anticipated that the applicant’s PhD/DPhil analysis already has a Commonwealth focus. Applications are significantly welcomed the place the award will allow the applicant to add a Commonwealth dimension to the work.

Proposed analysis should meet no less than 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 shall be required to submit an article of between 4,000 and 6,000 phrases primarily based on their analysis, for consideration for publication in The Round Table journal. They may also be required to make a podcast on their analysis, for publication on the journal’s web site. 

Application

• Download the application type in both PDF or Word format.
• Complete the application type.
• Send the finished type and a present CV to [email protected]

For extra data, go to ACU Routledge/Round Table Commonwealth Studentships.