British Council Scotland and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) have launched the new EARTH scholarships programme to address the challenges of climate change.
Available for PhD and Early Career Researchers from across the arts and humanities, the scholarships are designed to encourage global and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Open to international students, the programme will provide scholarships for in-person or hybrid exchanges to Scotland for up to three months in 2023, including an in-person leadership programme where all scholars will meet and network.
The EARTH scholarships will build on the British Council’s existing Climate Connection programme developed in partnership with the Scottish Funding Council.
Speaking about the EARTH scholarship launch, Leigh Gibson, British Council Scotland director said: ‘These scholarships will generate powerful collaborations between art, humanities, and education to address the significant global issue of climate change.
‘Universities and higher education institutions have a central role to play in driving innovation to help us cope with oncoming challenges – in public discourse, and in building understanding of science.
SGSAH’s director, Professor Claire Squires, commented: ‘The scholarship holders will be placed at one of our member HEIs, have the opportunity to network with the other scholarship holders and Scotland-based PhD and ECRs working in the environmental arts and humanities, to meet with arts and cultural organisations in Scotland, benefit from cohort training and development opportunities, and to feed back to Scottish academics and organisations their own experience of researching responses to the climate emergency.’
To find out more or to apply visit www.sgsah.ac.uk/prospective/earth-scholarships-2023/
