The Bartlett Promise PhD Scholarship

Value: Full tuition fees plus an annual allowance to cover living and study expenses (£21,237), for the normal duration of the MPhil/PhD programme at The Bartlett. All Promise scholars will also receive on-going academic and career support during their study

The Bartlett Promise aims to enable students from backgrounds which are underrepresented in The Bartlett, to pursue postgraduate research studies at The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment.

Candidates must:

be UK domiciled with home fee status or a forced migrant (as defined by UCL)¹ in the UK
have an offer of admission to a Bartlett PhD programme to start in September 2025/26 and
must not have completed a PhD at UCL or anywhere else previously

In addition to these mandatory criteria, candidates must meet at least one of the additional criteria:

• be in financial need as assessed by UCL²
• be from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background³
• be from a Gypsy, Roma or Traveller community⁴
• have a disability⁴
• be a care leaver⁴
• have care responsibilities
• be first generation in family to attend university at undergraduate level
• be first generation in family to attend university at postgraduate level
• ¹ Refugee, asylum seeker or those who have been granted a temporary form of leave as the result of an asylum or human rights application (e.g. limited leave to remain, discretionary leave to remain, humanitarian protection, UASC leave).
• ² With an assessed household income of less than £42,875
• ³ We define BAME as those of a non-white heritage and individuals of mixed-heritage who self-identify as coming from a BAME background
• ⁴ Underrepresented groups in Higher Education