Scholarships and bursaries
We are investing over £4 million in 2016–17 to provide a package of bursaries and financial support to students from England including schemes which will mean even more students can access financial support from the University.
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Government changes to Department of Health funded courses
The government has proposed that from 2017/18, new students on nursing, midwifery and pre-registration courses under the allied health professions in England will no longer receive an NHS grant.
However, it has been decided that postgraduate pre-registration students will receive an NHS bursary for the academic year 2017/18.
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The Institute of Mechanical Engineers & AESSEAL® Postgraduate Scholarship
Note: Deadline extended to Sunday 20 August 2017
The Department of Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, through the support of The Institute of Mechanical Engineers & AESSEAL® is offering three full fee scholarships for female UK students studying a postgraduate engineering course in the 2017/18 academic year.
Scholarships are awarded to ambitious female students who can demonstrate not only excellent academic achievement but also ambition, determination and dedication. Applications for September 2017 and January 2018 start dates are open until Sunday 20 August 2017.
Download a fact sheet to find out more or contact Cat Dale in the Development & Alumni Team at c.dale@shu.ac.uk.
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Teacher training bursaries
If you're an eligible graduate starting your postgraduate training in the 2016-17 academic year, including the non-salaried School Direct programme, you may be entitled to financial support from the National College for Teaching and Leadership.
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Performance Athletes Support Programme
We offer a support and scholarship programme for talented athletes. Scholarships of up to £6,000 are awarded to student athletes in addition to a comprehensive high performance support package.
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Postgraduate progression scholarships
For the academic year 2017/18, you could qualify for a discount of up to 25% towards your postgraduate course fees if you have studied with us before.
Our postgraduate progression scholarships are open to UK/EU and International graduates on most full-time and part-time courses.
• 25% Scholarship
You may be eligible for this scholarship if you have studied and completed your full undergraduate degree at Sheffield Hallam within the last three academic years and are enrolling onto a postgraduate taught course.
• 10% Scholarship
You may be eligible for this scholarship if you only studied part of your undergraduate degree at Sheffield Hallam or graduated more than three academic years ago. The 10% scholarship is also available to students on postgraduate research courses who have studied their undergraduate or postgraduate degree with us.
Exclusions
• Postgraduate progression scholarships are only available to students on non-regulated postgraduate courses. You will not be eligible for these scholarships if you are studying on Department of Health funded courses, PGCE programmes or the Masters in Architecture.
• Postgraduate progression scholarships are only available to students who have been awarded a Sheffield Hallam undergraduate degree. You will not be eligible for these scholarships if you have only completed a foundation degree or HND programme with us.
• Postgraduate progression scholarships are only available to students who are enrolled on a full postgraduate course. You will not be eligible if you only enrol for one module.
• Students are only eligible for one discount, if your fee has already been discounted by another arrangement then you will not be eligible for a postgraduate progression discount.
• The 25% scholarship is only available to students who have studied at Sheffield Hallam or have studied part of their degree at Sheffield Hallam as part of a completed Erasmus programme. If you have completed a Sheffield Hallam degree at another location you may still be eligible for the 10% scholarship.
• The 25% scholarship is only available to students who started in the first year (level 4) and studied their full degree with us. If you started your undergraduate degree at Sheffield Hallam in the second year (level 5) or final year (level 6) then you may still be eligible for the 10% scholarship.
• Postgraduate progression scholarships are only available on the first postgraduate course. If you choose to study a second postgraduate course then you will not be eligible for a discount. However, if you wish to progress from a postgraduate taught course to a postgraduate research course, the 10% progression discount may be applicable on your research course.
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PhD scholarships
We anticipate that applications for PhD scholarships starting in September 2018 will open in January 2018. Find out more.
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White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership scholarships (WRDTP)
The WRDTP is a collaborative partnership between Sheffield Hallam and the universities of Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Manchester Metropolitan, Sheffield and York. Accredited by the ESRC, it builds on the research excellence of the partners to deliver PhD training across the social sciences.
Sheffield Hallam University offered White Rose DTP Pathway Awards for Autumn 2017 in the following 4 Thematic Interdisciplinary Training Pathways:
- Cities, Environment, and Liveability – via the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR)
- Education, Childhood, and Youth – via Sheffield Institute of Education
- Wellbeing, Health, and Communities – via the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR)
- Civil Society, Development, and Democracy – via the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR)
Scholarships are available as a PhD (+3) or Masters + PhD (1+3), on a full-time or part-time basis.
Eligibility criteria can be found on the DTP website.
Interested applicants should contact the Faculty of Development and Society's graduate school for information on how to apply.
Applications have closed for 2017. We anticipate that applications for Autumn 2018 will open in December 2017.