Scottish universities supporting the arts & humanities doctoral training

A new Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) to support postgraduate studentships and training in the arts and humanities in Scotland has secured funding of £14.2 million. The money has been granted by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to a consortium of Scottish Universities being led by Glasgow, and comprising Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow School of Art, St Andrews, Stirling and Strathclyde universities. This success has been reinforced by the commitment of up to £1.8 million from the Scottish Funding Council to support the establishment of a Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH). The culmination of more than two years of cooperative working between the partners, the DTP will offer doctoral studentships and training across the full range of the AHRC's disciplines - with around 200 funded studentships over the next five years. The scheme will be managed by the newly-created SGSAH, which will be administered from the University of Glasgow, but with shared governance across all partner institutions. Speaking on behalf of the consortium, Professor Murray Pittock, Vice Principal and Head of the College of Arts at the University of Glasgow, said: "The establishment of the SGSAH represents a departure from existing models of postgraduate research education.