Deadline: 27 April 2012
Open to: PhD students who will submit the thesis in the field or Art and Archaeology before the end of the academic session 2012/13
Bursary: £6,000
Description
The Department of Art and Archaeology at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) invites applications to the bursary, created in recognition of the work of Dr Aida Sulayman Arif, an eminent archaeologist who completed her PhD at SOAS in 1960.
Throughout her long and distinguished career, Dr Arif served a number of different fellowships, lectureships, associate professorships and visiting professorships in some of the world’s most prestigious seats of learning. Her teaching and research took her to places as far afield as the University of Khartoum (Sudan), the University of Jordan, McGill University (Canada), King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) and Harvard University, Boston (in the United States). She participated in numerous archaeological digs and has many publications to her name.
Many of Dr Arif’s students went on to hold key posts in the Department of Antiquities in Jordan and some neighbouring Arab countries. She retired in 1991.
To celebrate Dr Arif’s invaluable contribution in the fields of art, archaeology and heritage, this bursary has been created to help one final-year PhD student of Art and Archaeology at SOAS to fund the completion of his or her studies.
Eligibility
Preference will be given to those students writing their dissertations in the field of Art & Archaeology of the Near and Middle East. Students of the Art and Archaeology of other regions and cultures will still be eligible to apply and may be awarded the Bursary in such circumstances when the applications of those candidates studying Art & Archaeology of the Near and Middle East are not deemed strong enough to merit the Bursary.
Candidate Criteria
- Applicants may be of any nationality and in need of the bursary to fund the completion of their thesis.
- The bursary is for PhD students who will submit the thesis before the end of the academic session 2012/13. It is expected that the student who gets awarded this bursary will be enrolled on Extension of Writing up (continuation) status during the academic session 2012/13.
- Preference will be given to those students writing their dissertations in the field of Art & Archaeology of the Near and Middle East.
Application
The closing date is 27 April 2012. It is the applicant’s responsibility to submit a complete application by the deadline. Incomplete or late applications will be deemed invalid. The complete Aida Sulayman Arif Bursary application form should be submitted to:
Alicia Sales, Scholarships Officer, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London)
Registry, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG, UK
as soon as possible but no later than 27 April 2012.
Bursary
The bursary, valued at £6,000, will be given in the form of a stipend to the award holders to help them with living costs, in the final stages of their PhD. The stipend will be paid out in three installments: the first of £2,600 at the beginning of the first semester; the second, also of £2,600 at the start of the second semester and finally a ‘bonus’ of £800 to be paid to the student on completion – provided that the thesis is submitted before the end of the academic session. Additionally the bursary will also include a partial remission of fees, set at 20% of the continuation fees.
You may contact the department’s staff for further information:
Email: scholarships@soas.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7074 5094/5091
Fax: +44 (0)20 7074 5089