Birmingham University Edna Pearson Scholarship

Level of study: Postgraduate research masters, Postgraduate taught masters

Subject area: History

Nationality: EU, Overseas (Non-EU), UK

Type of Award: University

Deadline for applying: Closes 26/03/2025

Award Description

The Edna Pearson Scholarship is funded from a bequest by the late Mary Frances Collins. It offers a variable contribution to tuition fees (no higher than the full UK home tuition fee rate) to either a taught or research Masters student in the Department of History.

Value of Award

Partial fees scholarships (variable up to full UK fee rate).

Eligibility Criteria

This scholarship is only available to postgraduate masters student in the Department fo History.

How to Apply

In order to apply, you must have completed an application to study. You will then need to complete our online funding application form. Your application must also be supported by two references.

You’ll need to complete the online funding application form and get two referees to supply references via the funding reference form

The deadline for applying is Wednesday 26 March 2025 at 4pm GMT.

By applying, you will be automatically considered for relevant College of Arts and Law scholarships:

• Harding International Legal Scholarship
• Music Department Masters Scholarships 
• Edna Pearson Scholarship
• The Amphlett Scholarship
• The Islam Scholarship
• The William Paton Award
• Woltmann Research Masters Scholarship

Only complete applications submitted before the deadline will be considered.

Further information

It is your responsibility to contact your referees with the link to the online College of Arts and Law Funding reference form. You’ll need to explain to them the importance of the reference being completed on the online form and submitted by the deadline.

We would recommend that you are in touch with your referee ahead of the deadline to ensure that references have been completed. There is no leeway with references. These must be received by the deadline.

If references are received late they will not be considered. If references are received but are not on the correct online funding reference form they will not be considered. In any of these circumstances, your application will be deemed incomplete and will be withdrawn from the competition.

For your application to be considered we need to have received a complete application, i.e. study application, online funding application, and two online references received by the deadline.  Your application will then be processed as follows:

• Graded and ranked by School Panels
• Each School will recommend their top applicants for an award
• A College Panel consisting of: the CAL Graduate School Deputy Director (Chair) and School Heads of Postgraduate Taught (or representative) will meet to consider the School recommendations and to award any additional scholarships (depending on funding available) through a ranking process.

We will let you know as soon as possible the outcome of your application – usually within the period from early May to the end of June.

If you have any further queries, please email calpg-research@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

Contact

College of Arts and Law – Department of History
calpg-research@contacts.bham.ac.uk