SUPA Prize Studentships

  • Name: SUPA Prize Studentships
  • Level: Postgraduate (Research)
  • School: School of Engineering and Physical Sciences
  • Availability: Students with a PhD proposal in Physics
  • Number of awards: 15 throughout participating institutions
  • Deadline: 31/01/2013

Further information

Heriot-Watt is one of the founding partners in the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA). All of our physics PhD students take part in the SUPA Graduate School postgraduate training programme.

The SUPA Prize Studentships are prestigious and competitive awards intended to attract outstanding physics students from around the world, irrespective of nationality, to study for a PhD in Scotland.

Prize studentships will be awarded competitively and up to fifteen awards will be available this year for outstanding candidates. The studentships provide support for tuition fees, a stipend and a travel grant for a three-and-a-half-year period. SUPA is the funding body for the prize studentships.

The SUPA Themes are:

  • Astronomy and Space Physics
  • Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
  • Energy
  • Particle Physics
  • Photonics
  • Physics and Life Sciences
  • Nuclear and Plasma Physics

Interested applicants should apply via the SUPA website.

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