The British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarships 2025 is a programme run by SGSAH with funding from the British Council to enable international research collaborations between PhD and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) and Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Scotland-based academic mentors, and external organisations, thematically focused on environmental arts and humanities and their interdisciplinary connections.
The overall aim of the programme is to promote the role and interventions of the environmental arts and humanities, and the arts and cultural sector, in addressing the climate emergency, and their capacity for interdisciplinary research within STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics) contexts. The programme will create research opportunities and international mobility which will develop and support new approaches to address the global challenge of climate crisis and support sustainable research and cultural interchanges within and beyond the arts and humanities and cultural sectors.
It is anticipated that the British Council Scotland funding will support 7–9 researchers in total, with additional cohort members deriving from SGSAH’s AHRC- and SFC-funded PhD researchers.
The scholarships are for PhD and ECRs in the Arts & Humanities to benefit from a concerted period of time spent in Scotland in 2025. To make the application, candidates need to identify an academic mentor and a Host HEI.
The scholarships will take place between April and July 2025 (including a compulsory, in-person cohort training programme in April/May 2025). It is expected that successful applicants – for environmental and economic reasons – only travel once to Scotland.
Scholarship proposals may include in-person and hybrid aspects and can last from six weeks (ie 45 days) to three months (ie 90 days), including the 10-day cohort programme in April/May 2025. The programme includes an in-person, hybrid and online cohort development programme.
Each applicant submits a budget that includes travel, accommodation, subsistence, visa costs, and additional funding for particular needs (e.g. childcare, access requirements, relating to disability).
