The London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP) is offering a number of Studentships for the next academic year (2022-23) and applicants to the Queen Mary School of Law PhD programme are eligible to apply for these awards.
The selection process will take place in early 2022 following the deadlines in January/February, and candidates will have the selection decision confirmed in April 2022. Selection is made via a competitive process, with candidates from the Queen Mary doctoral programme competing with applicants from the various other institutes linked to the LAHP scheme.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must have completed and submitted their main Queen Mary PhD application (and all required supporting documents) by 5pm 28 January 2022. However, if the deadline is approaching and applicants haven’t submitted a main PhD application, the School advises that applicants should both organise submission of their PhD and LAHP applications simultaneously.
- Applicants must have a primary supervisor organised by the time of the funding deadline.
- Applicants should indicate on the Queen Mary PhD Online Application Form, in the ‘Other information’ section, that they wish to be considered for LAHP Studentship funding. In response to the question – ‘Are you applying for a Doctoral Training Programme (DTP)? you need to confirm ‘Yes’ from the drop-down menu. Then, from the next question ‘Which Doctoral Training Programme are you applying for?’, you need to select ‘LAHP.
- Applicants are responsible for ensuring their proposed doctoral supervisor has completed and submitted the ‘LAHP Supervisor Statement Form’ document prior to the deadline date.
Area of research
Your proposed topic of research, as outlined in your research proposal submitted with your main application, must be within the subject areas covered by the AHRC.
The School of Law would generally come under the area of ‘Law and Legal Studies’ as the AHRC defines it, which incorporates the following specific areas of legal research:
- Jurisprudence/Philosophy of Law
- Human Rights
- Criminal Law and Criminology
- International Law
- EU Law
- Public Law
- Comparative Law
- Common Law, including Commercial Law
- Law Regulated by Statute
- Law Relating to Property
- Legal History
Contacting supervisors – Completing the ‘LAHP Supervisor Statement Form’
- If a PhD application from an LAHP applicant is received early enough, we will try to appoint a supervisor as part of our PhD application review process. If an application is successful, once we have appointed a staff member as an applicant’s primary supervisor, we will confirm this to the applicant. At that point applicants should contact their proposed supervisor directly to work on the main LAHP application form with them. However, if the LAHP deadline is approaching, applicants must directly approach academic staff at Queen Mary (who must be full-time, permanent staff members at the School of Law – Visiting Scholars cannot supervise), and organise completion of the Supervisor Statement form directly with that staff member.
- Without submission of this ‘LAHP Supervisor Statement Form’ prior to the 28 Januaryy 2022 deadline, the funding application cannot be submitted or considered.
- Current First year PhD students should arrange for their current primary supervisor to provide this Statement of Support
- Please note, in addition, you will be required to name a 2nd supervisor on your LAHP application form as well.
School of Law PhD programme entry requirements
Applicants are expected to meet the entry requirements of the Queen Mary School of Law PhD programme – these require applicants to gain a ‘Pass with Distinction’ on an LLM or equivalent post-graduate qualification in Law, such as an MA. For degrees taken outside of the UK, the applicant must obtain the grade equivalent to a UK ‘Pass with Distinction’. For applicants from non-English speaking countries, proof of English language competency may be required. While these requirements are higher than the general requirements the LAHP has, applicants should note that the higher requirements of the School of Law’s PhD programme take precedence.
Scholarship Value
Full fee waiver at Home/EU rates and stipend of £17,000 per year. International student may be required to pay the remaining fund on their tuition fee.
Deadline
28 January 2022.
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