MA and PhD funding: University of Warwick

Funding opportunities for MA and PhD study in Modern Languages (including Translation and Transcultural Studies) at the University of Warwick

MA study

• Taught courses available, allowing you to acquire essential skills in preparation for doctoral work or to enhance your professional competency, standing and employability: MA in Modern Languages and Cultures and MA in Translation and Cultures.

• The University of Warwick will be offering the Warwick Taught Masters Scholarship Scheme to support eligible postgraduate students in 2024/2025. The Scheme has £500,000 to allocate and we expect to make a minimum of 50 awards. Awards are set up to £10,000 per student and available to eligible Home fee status students from under-represented groups who wish to start a postgraduate taught Master’s course in Autumn 2024. Application deadline: 31 May 2024.

• Two SMLC departmental MA scholarships will also be awarded, comprising a fee waiver (for Home students) or fee subsidy (for International students), for full-time study. Application deadline: 28 May 2024.

PhD study

• One SMLC PhD scholarship will be awarded to an outstanding applicant, comprising payment of academic fees for Home fees level OR an equivalent reduction in fees for Overseas fee status students and a UKRI-level stipend for 3.5 years, regardless of fee status. Applications open on 1^st April and close on 31^st May 2024. New applicants must also apply for their place of study at Warwick by 1^st May.

• For more information on our PhD programme please see here.

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Warwick offers its graduate students a vibrant research culture and community, with around 35 students currently enrolled on PhDs in the School, alongside some 30 Master’s students and a number of postdoctoral research fellows.

Postgraduate researchers play a vital role in our research community, together with postdoctoral researchers and academic staff of national and international renown. In the 2021 REF exercise (a UK research evaluation) 82% of our research outputs and 100% of our research environment were judged to be ‘world-leading or internationally excellent’.

Our research expertise ranges from the Early Modern period to the present. We study Modern Languages (French, German, Italian, Iberian languages, and Chinese) in a broad intellectual, global and transcultural context, covering literature; cultural, social and intellectual history; film; politics and society; philosophy; and translation studies.

In the Postgraduate Research Student Experience Survey (PRES) 2023, the SMLC outperformed the average for the UK Russell Group of research-intensive universities in every area but one (supervision, resources, research culture, community, progression, responsibilities, support and professional development) and equalled that score in that remaining area (research skills).

From Autumn 2024 we will be introducing new cohort-level training for all PhD students in the School, which will cover using academic resources, conferencing and networking, public engagement, writing research proposals and interviewing, among other topics.

Please get in touch with us to identify potential supervisors and prepare a robust application.

Please direct any enquiries to the School’s Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Oliver Davis, at O.Davis@warwick.ac.uk. To search for relevant research expertise among our staff, see here. To view research interests of our staff, see here.