Commonwealth PhD Scholarships 2027/2028 (Fully-Funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 20, 2026

Applications are open for the Commonwealth PhD Scholarships 2027/2028. Funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Commonwealth PhD scholarships contribute to the event wants of Commonwealth international locations by supporting analysis that may have a developmental influence.

They additionally improve particular person educating and analysis capability main to extend institutional capability in tutorial and different sectors in Commonwealth international locations and can contribute to UK increased training and analysis by attracting excessive-calibre worldwide candidates and inspiring hyperlinks and collaboration, and are aimed toward those that couldn’t in any other case afford to study within the UK.

Scholarship

Each scholarship offers:

• Approved airfare from the Scholar’s home nation to the UK and return on the finish of the award (the CSC won’t reimburse the price of fares for dependants, nor the price of journeys made earlier than the award is confirmed).
• Approved tuition charges: full charges are lined by settlement between the CSC and the UK college, and Scholars usually are not liable to pay for any part of the tutoring price.
• Stipend (residing allowance) on the charge of £1,712 per 30 days, or £2,000 per 30 days for these at universities within the London metropolitan space (charges quoted at present ranges).
• Study journey grant in direction of the price of study-related journey throughout the UK or abroad.
• Provision in direction of the price of fieldwork undertaken abroad (the price of one financial system class return airfare to the fieldwork location), the place authorised.
• Paid mid-time period go to (airfare) to the Scholar’s home nation, except they’ve claimed or intend to assert partner and/or child allowances throughout their scholarship or have obtained a return airfare to their home nation for fieldwork.
• Family allowances, as follows (charges quoted at present ranges):
  • If a Scholar is accompanied by their partner however no kids: partner allowance of £313 per 30 days for a most interval of 9 months, in the event that they and their partner live collectively on the similar deal with within the UK (except the partner can also be in receipt of a scholarship; different situations additionally apply).
  • If a Scholar is accompanied by their partner and youngsters: partner allowance of £313 per 30 days and child allowance of £313 per 30 days for the primary child, and £154 per 30 days for the second and third child below the age of 16, if their partner and youngsters live with them on the similar deal with within the UK (except their partner can also be in receipt of a scholarship; different situations additionally apply).
  • If a Scholar has kids and is widowed, divorced, or a single guardian, child allowance of child allowance of £622 per 30 days for the primary child, and £154 per 30 days for the second and third child below the age of 16, if their kids live with them on the similar deal with within the UK.

Eligibility

To apply for this scholarship, candidates should:

• Be a citizen of or have been granted refugee standing by an eligible Commonwealth nation, or be a British Protected Person.
• Be completely resident in an eligible Commonwealth nation.
• Be out there to begin tutorial research within the UK by the beginning of the UK tutorial yr in September 2027.
• By September 2027, maintain a primary diploma of at the least higher second-class (2:1) honours commonplace, or a decrease second-class diploma and a related postgraduate qualification (often a Master’s diploma).
• Not be registered for a PhD, or an MPhil resulting in a PhD, at a UK college or of their home nation earlier than September/October 2026.
• Be unable to afford to study within the UK with out this scholarship.
• Have supplied all supporting documentation within the required format.

Application

In the application kind, candidates are requested to:

• List all undergraduate and postgraduate college {qualifications} obtained.
• List as much as 10 publications and prizes.
• Provide particulars of employment historical past and clarify how the expertise gained helps and is related to the programme to be undertaken within the UK.
• List names and positions of three referees who’re certified to touch upon each their capability to learn from the proposed Scholarship within the UK and their capability to ship improvement influence afterwards. One of the referees have to be a present employer (if relevant) and at the least two references have to be included with the application.
• Provide a Development Impact assertion in 4 elements.

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For extra data, go to Commonwealth PhD Scholarships.