The Ewan MacColl Memorial Award is offered through competitive application to a student accepting a place to study on the MMus, MLitt or MPhil in Music degree programmes at Newcastle University and whose research encompasses folk music (not classical or pop music).

The International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University has a particularly strong research profile in the area of folk and traditional musics. Please see individual staff profiles for possible supervisors and the website for further information on the University’s research.

The scholarship must be used to help fund the costs of carrying out research or practical activities relating to the recipient’s Masters research project. For example, it could support travel for a student concentrating on collecting, recording or research. It may not be used to fund living expenses or tuition fees.

UK, EU and International students are eligible to apply. Your proposed research must be in the area of folk music (and might be musicological, ethnomusicological or practice based).

You should hold, or expect to achieve, a minimum of a 2:1 honours degree or international equivalent, in music or a closely related discipline.

If your first language is not English you need IELTS 6.5 overall (with 6.5 in writing and a minimum of 5.5 in all other sub-skills) or equivalent.

Newcastle University welcomes applications from all sections of the community regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and wish to encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented groups in UK higher education.

For full details visit the link below.