Kent Business School Doctoral Scholarship

Kent Business School Research Scholarships  (Graduate Teaching Assistantships)

Kent Business School is looking to award a total of four PhD GTA scholarships to highly motivated students.  One award has been reserved for applicants within Business Analytics/Operational Research and three awards for any PhD course offered at the School.

Awardees of such hold a unique position in the University; they are both registered PhD students in receipt of a scholarship and employees of the University. Two GTAs will cover tuition fees at the UK rate and two GTAs will cover tuition fees at the international fee rate, and all carry a combined maintenance grant and salary equivalent to the Research Councils UK National Minimum Doctoral Stipend (£18,622 for 2023/24). The scholarship will be offered for one year in the first instance, renewable for a maximum of three years subject to satisfactory academic performance. 

The Kent Business School (KBS) Research Scholarship competition is open to applicants from any country. Please note that international students must have the appropriate documentation to evidence eligibility to work in the UK. The method of determining tuition fee status is complex and follows guidelines issued by the UK Council for International Student Affairs. 

Please note that students who have already started their PhD are not eligible for this scholarship.

These awards are in addition to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) SeNSS student-led competition awards.  Further information on these is available on our dedicated SeNSS funding web page.

The deadline for this funding was 20 January 2023

• Successful candidates will demonstrate excellent research potential and will have obtained a first class or 2:1 undergraduate degree, along with a master's with distinction, in a relevant subject (current master's students can submit a partial transcript).
• Applicants must have a minimum overall score of 7.0 in an IELTS test. This requirement may not be required if an applicant is a national of a majority English-speaking country, or has completed a qualification equivalent to a UK bachelor's degree in a majority English-speaking country.
• Successful applications will normally meet all of the qualifications criteria (degrees and IELTS score). However, applicants falling short of these but with an exceptional research proposal and references, may be considered.
• Open to applicants from any country. Please note that international students must have the appropriate documentation to evidence eligibility to work in the UK. Further information can be found on these guidance pages. 
• Open to all new postgraduate research applicants, applying for September entry (current Kent research students are not eligible).
• If an international applicant is awarded a home tuition fee award, they will need to confirm they are able to fund the difference in fees (as an indication, for 2022 entry the difference was £12,804).
• Scholarship cannot be deferred.

These PhD Scholarships are awarded to students with excellent research potential and take the form of a three-year Graduate Teaching Assistantship (GTA), allowing successful awardees to receive financial support (a combined salary and maintenance grant) in return for undertaking some part-time teaching at Kent Business School, alongside their PhD studies.

Terms and Conditions, and Conditions of Service, can be found on the relevant Scholarship pages.