The School of Music and Fine Art at the University of Kent is delighted to be offering up to THREE fee waiver PhD scholarships (Home/EU rate) for PhD students (September 2015 entry).

We warmly welcome applications from all doctoral research applicants who have applied or are applying to the School of Music and Fine Art at the University of Kent for entry in the academic year starting September 2015. Please visit Kent’s postgraduate pages for comprehensive information about how to apply for postgraduate research study. These Scholarships are only open to applicants whose proposed first supervisor is in the School of Music and Fine Art.

In order to be eligible for these scholarships, applicants should apply for, and subsequently receive an offer of, a place at the University of Kent for one of the following PhD courses for September 2015 entry.

• Fine Art (Practice as Research)
• Music and Technology
• Music (Research)
• Music (Composition)
• Music (Performance)

The Scholarships are available to UK, EU and overseas students and will cover tuition fees (at the home/EU rate). They are offered for one year in the first instance, renewable for a maximum of three years subject to satisfactory academic performance.

Details of the application process can be found here Deadline for all elements of an application is 30 June 2015.

Kent creatives can now apply for a £10,000 bursary to study locally. The University of Kent has been awarded a total of 232 new £10,000 postgraduate bursaries, the sixth largest allocation in the UK, for students admitted to taught Master’s degree programmes at Kent in September 2015. Allocations will be made by mid-July 2015.

Based at the Chatham Historic Dockyard, the School of Music and Fine Art offers MA’s in Fine Art, Music Technology, Music Composition and Sound and Image, with students benefitting from a thriving research environment and strong research profile.

Students have access to state of the art facilities and equipment as well as all the support and learning resources of a major, research-led University. The School hosts a regular programme of seminars, symposia, conferences and other exciting events in a dynamic and vibrant environment.

There is no fixed closing deadline for applications to most postgraduate taught degrees BUT you are recommended to apply as soon as possible and no later than three months before your intended start date. Most taught degrees begin in September although some may offer the opportunity to start in January.

For more info go to: http://www.kent.ac.uk/smfa/postgraduate/index.html