Haywood Fellowship

The Haywood Fellowship provides a discount at the Home tuition fee rate and a small maintenance grant. International students are eligible to apply, and if successful, will have the Home fee amount deducted from their tuition fees and will receive a small maintenance grant.

While it is hoped that the scholarship would be continued for three years, it will be subject to an annual review.

Who can apply?

This award is open to all Home and International applicants pursuing campus-based doctoral research in History of Art commencing in September 2026. Applications for funding can only be considered alongside an application to study.

The scholarship is also open to current History of Art PhD students at the University of Birmingham, who are going into their second year.

Students from any country and of any nationality can apply for this scholarship.

How to Apply

Applicants for the Haywood Fellowship should submit a standard PhD application to the University of Birmingham application portal. Please indicate in your personal statement that you would like to be considered for the Haywood Fellowship, and explain how you will participate in the research culture of the department: are there particular research strands in the Department or School that your project contributes towards? Are there Research Centres that you might like to be involved in? Some examples might be Midlands Art Papers, the Nineteenth-Century Centre, the Eighteenth-Century Centre, the Centre for Material Cultures and Materialities. 

If you are a current History of Art PhD student at the University of Birmingham, going into your second year, please produce a statement detailing that you would like to be considered for the Haywood Fellowship, and explain how you will participate in the research culture of the department as per the information above. Please send your statement to Dr Michaela Giebelhausen via email: m.giebelhausen@bham.ac.uk

The deadline for applications to be considered for the Haywood Fellowship is Wednesday 29 April 2026.

Candidates applying for 2026-27 College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarships funding will automatically be considered for the Haywood Fellowship.