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Dr RWM Strain Masonic Charitable Trust Development and Innovation Bursaries

The Dr RWM Strain Masonic Charitable Trust Development and Innovation Bursaries will normally be awarded to up to five postgraduate students who are in financial need and/or who require financial support to participate in further high-quality, transdisciplinary training and development. Established in 2018, the Bursaries are named in honour of Dr Bill Strain, a Queen’s graduate and long serving physician at the Ulster Hospital.

The Bursaries are designed to financially support and motivate postgraduate students at Queen’s who are members of the Order of Freemasons of the Irish Constitution, or the spouse, child, relative or dependant of a member.

Note: Deadline is 07/09/2024 and 31/07/2025 (23:59:00 hours) or sooner if funds used.

Commonwealth Shared Scholarships

Commonwealth Shared Scholarships are offered by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (CSC) in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast. The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK (CSC) provides the UK government scholarship scheme led by international development objectives. It operates within the framework of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) and offers a vivid demonstration of the UK’s enduring commitment to the Commonwealth. By attracting individuals with outstanding talent and identifiable potential from all backgrounds and supporting them to become leaders and innovators on returning to their home countries, the CSC’s work combines sustainable development with the UK national interest and provides opportunities for international partnerships and collaboration.

The scheme's aim is to contribute to the development needs of Commonwealth countries by providing training for skilled and qualified professionals and academics who would not otherwise have been able to study in the UK.

Intended beneficiaries: High-quality postgraduate students from Least Developed and middle-income countries (including fragile and conflict-affected states), who have not studied for a year or more in a high-income country before, who would not otherwise afford to study in the UK, and who have the potential to enhance the development of their home countries with the knowledge and leadership skills they acquire.

Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund

Founded in 1967 by the Canadian Women’s Club to mark Canada’s centennial, the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (CCSF), has awarded c£1,000,000 in scholarships to some 500 talented Canadians studying postgraduate programmes at over 40 different universities, colleges and conservatories across the UK. Recipients are chosen on the basis of academic or artistic excellence and their ability to represent Canada in the UK.

Awards are granted to scholars from a wide range of disciplines including science, engineering, social science and humanities as well as music, creative arts and design. The CCSF plans to grant a number of £5,000 awards for the academic year commencing September 2020.

Recipients are chosen on the basis of academic excellence, as well as on their ability to represent Canada within the UK academic and artistic community. They represent a breadth of academic interests and pursuits. The scholarships are among the most prestigious annual scholarships for Canadians studying in the UK. Two named awards are offered on occasion: the Belle Shenkman Award is given to the most impressive student of Music or the Arts; the Mary Le Messurier Award to the most impressive student of History.

CCSF awards are for postgraduate academic and artistic studies in the UK, and are exclusively for students who have already commenced their postgraduate programme of study in the UK.

North South Postgraduate Scholarships

The aim of this scheme is to encourage outstanding students from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to cross the border to undertake postgraduate study and experience life in the other Irish jurisdiction.

CITI-GENS MSCA COFUND Doctoral Training Programme

The Collaboration in Training and Innovation for Growing, Evolving and Networked Societies (CITI-GENS) programme at Queen’s University Belfast is a MSCA COFUND Doctoral Training Programme.

The CITI-GENS programme is hosted by the award winning Graduate School at Queen's University Belfast. The Graduate School is an intellectual and social hub for all postgraduates that connects students across disciplines to one another, and to mentors, thought leaders, and employers both within the university and beyond. You'll be part of a cohort of research students, creating a community and exciting learning environment.

You will benefit from an interdiscplinary supervisory team offering a unique perspective on your project and preparing you for work across disciplinary boundaries in your future career. You will also have an external partner from a non academic organistion on your project, offering an intersectoral experience, often in the form of secondments/placements. See individual project descriptions for partner information.

As an MSCA Fellow you will be in the unique position of being an employee of the University as well as a student, you can read more about the employment contact here.

The project will be led by two leading academics within the University, Professor Margaret Topping, Dean of the Graduate School and Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh, Senior Lecturer and former Director of Graduate Studies at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics.

Alumni Postgraduate Research Awards

These awards, established in 1994 and funded by Queen’s University and the Bank of Ireland, are available to provide financial support for postgraduate research students at Queen's who are Queen’s alumni or the children of alumni. Alumni are defined as students who have completed a undergraduate or postgraduate degree course at Queen’s University Belfast.

Award holders will be selected primarily on the basis of academic merit, including previous academic performance.

The Alumni Postgraduate Awards are designed to provide financial support for postgraduate research students at Queen’s University Belfast and may be used as contributions toward tuition fees or subsistence, or to provide a travel scholarship or for such other purposes as are approved by the University. Preference may be given to postgraduate students who can evidence childcare costs.