Internships and Artist Residencies
Paid doctoral internships and artist residencies
SGSAH organises internships and artist residencies for PhD researchers to spend up to three months at a partner host organisation, enabling you to enhance your research skills in a wide variety of contexts. These exciting opportunities give you the chance to make a difference to an organisation, whilst developing your skills, networks and CV to take you to the next stage of your career.
Projects can be worked full time, part time or flexibly in blocks. We will pay you the equivalent of an UKRI stipend rate for the duration of your internship or residency and can help with travel and accommodation costs if these aren’t funded by your host organisation. The programme is open to arts and humanities PhD students in Scotland, regardless of funding source.
If you are an organisation who would be interested in having a PhD researcher come to work with you for up to 3 months FTE as an intern, paid by us, in 2025, please complete the form linked here https://sgsah.smapply.io/prog/internshipproposal/ by 5pm 25th September.
We will review and get back to you as necessary, then advertise approved opportunities to the researchers this autumn with details of how they can apply. After the closing date, you can then review any applications you receive for your role, shortlist and interview. We are envisaging placements commencing from January 2025 but this can be flexible.
Eligibility
The programme is open to arts and humanities PhD students in Scotland, regardless of funding source. Any doctoral researcher that meets the following criteria can benefit from this programme:
- You are registered at a SGSAH member HEI;
- You are in 2nd or early in your 3rd year* (full time equivalent) at 1 October 2024;
- You are studying an arts and humanities discipline. The AHRC’s subject coverage is here;
- You are eligible to work in the UK;
- You have not already undertaken an internship or residency through SGSAH’s programme.
*you can apply to undertake a placement in the later/final stages of your PhD provided that you will still be registered at your HEI throughout the total period of the internship and you have full support from your supervisory team.
We recognise there are some subjects where the AHRC and the ESRC share interests and responsibilities (as can be found here, pages 74-77. PhD students in these areas are eligible to apply for SGSAH-funded internships as long as they fulfil the eligibility criteria as above, and additionally, have not been funded for an internship through the UKRI in Scotland (ie through SGSSS). Students registered in social science disciplines/departments may therefore be eligible to apply; contact admin@sgsah.ac.uk for clarification.
Contact
For an informal discussion about any aspect of the programme, please contact Helen Kendrick, SGSAH Partnerships & Placements Manager on helen.kendrick@sgsah.ac.uk.
Key dates
| Early October 2024 | Internship opportunities will be available to view online and open for PhD researchers to apply for |
| 5pm 1st November 2024 | Deadline for researchers to apply for internships |
| November 2024 | Hosts will review candidates, interview and confirm selection. |
| December 2024 | Partnership agreements completed, ready for placements to start from January 2025 |
| From January 2025 | Researchers undertake internship placements with host institutions. |
