{"id":492,"date":"2017-01-12T16:51:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=492"},"modified":"2017-01-12T16:51:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T16:51:04","slug":"new-fully-funded-phd-opportunities-open-to-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/new-fully-funded-phd-opportunities-open-to-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"New fully funded PhD opportunities open to alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Westminster has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/news\/2016\/university-of-westminster-launches-22-new-phd-scholarships\">announced the launch<\/a> of 22 new MPhil\/PhD Scholarships, fully funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust. These generous scholarships cover an annual tax-free stipend of \u00a316,000, plus the payment of full-time tuition fees.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarships are available across each of the five faculties, comprising subjects as diverse as climate change and religion, obesity therapy, business strategy and media research.<\/p>\n<p>This is an opportunity to study in a distinctive, high-quality and vibrant research environment which encourages an interdisciplinary approach and knowledge transfer. The scholarships aim to develop research that will make a difference \u2013 to academia, industry and professional practice \u2013 and that is internationally recognised, innovative and publicly engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are now open for eligible candidates to commence in September 2017 on a full-time basis for three years. The deadlines for all scholarships is Friday 10 February 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/courses\/research-degrees\/research-studentships\">Full information on the scholarships is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Westminster has announced the launch of 22 new MPhil\/PhD Scholarships, fully funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust. These generous scholarships cover an annual tax-free stipend of \u00a316,000, plus the payment of full-time tuition fees. The scholarships are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}