A number of Teaching Scholarships will be available to PhD candidates beginning courses in October 2008. Teaching scholarships offer tuition fees (at the home/EU rate), a stipend for 3.5 years and a defined teaching role and training programme. They offer the chance to gain valuable teaching experience and career development at the same time as carrying out doctoral research. The teaching workload, including training, preparation and marking time, will be 90 hours per year (equivalent of a half day per week, based on a three-hour session, during term time, i.e. for 30 weeks per year).
Eligibility

Full-time PhD candidates (UK, EU and overseas). Only candidates who have or expect to obtain at least a first or upper second class honours degree (or equivalent) should apply. Please note that some departments may also require a masters degree. Candidates whose first language is not English must obtain an IELTS score of 7.0 or above (or equivalent).
Value of scholarship

Tuition fee (at the home/EU rate) and a partial stipend of at least £5,000 in 2008/9 for 3.5 years (or 2.5 years for existing students entering their second year). Overseas candidates will be required to demonstrate, before the offer of an award is confirmed, that they have sufficient funds to cover the balance of the overseas tuition fee.
Availability

Departments go through an internal bidding process between September and November each year to establish the distribution of these scholarships among Departments.

Awards for 2008/9 entry are tenable in the following Departments:
Archaeology Historical Archaeology
Chemistry Any branch
Economics Microeconomics / Macroeconomics
Electronics Project support for MSc Internet and Mobile Communications Systems
Electronics Project teaching support for MSc Communications Engineering
Health Sciences Health Services Research - Inequalities in help-seeking
History Medieval / Early Modern / Modern History
Politics Core Modules
Psychology Experimental Psychology
Social Policy and Social Work Topic is dependent on whether awardee is a social policy or social work student
Theatre, Film and Television Teaching on BA in Theatre, Film and Television and MA Theatre: Writing, Directing and Performance (this studentship is open to an existing student who will be entering the second year of their PhD)

The application deadline is 30 April each year. For more detail information about this program please visit http://www.york.ac.uk/graduatestudy/finance/pg_award/teaching.htm

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