The McCormack Scholarship

Applications for MA scholarships will be assessed on evidence of academic merit and on your personal statement.

Preference will be given to applicants who meet all the course requirements plus one or more of the following:

You identify as a member of a minority ethnic community in the UK
You have experience of Public Care
You have been a carer
You have a disability or long-term health condition
You have a household income below £42,875 (threshold subject to change) (priority will be given to applicants who were entitled to, or were in receipt of, free school meals or discretionary payments at school or sixth form)/have received the Maximum Maintenance Loan, or Maximum Maintenance Grant or Special Support Grant
Have been the first in their family to attend higher education (not including siblings) on entry to undergraduate study
You are on a low income
You are seeking asylum in the UK or have been granted refugee status

Some of these criteria will only be relevant to UK applicants. You may make a case for an international equivalent.

Applications for MA scholarships will be assessed on evidence of academic merit and on your personal statement.

Preference will be given to applicants who meet all the course requirements plus one or more of the following:

You identify as a member of a minority ethnic community in the UK

You have experience of Public Care

You have been a carer

You have a disability or long-term health condition

You have a household income below £42,875 (threshold subject to change) (priority will be given to applicants who were entitled to, or were in receipt of, free school meals or discretionary payments at school or sixth form)/have received the Maximum Maintenance Loan, or Maximum Maintenance Grant or Special Support Grant

Have been the first in their family to attend higher education (not including siblings) on entry to undergraduate study

You are on a low income

You are seeking asylum in the UK or have been granted refugee status

The Department is grateful to History alumnus Francis McCormack for establishing the McCormack Scholarship. This is an award of a fee waiver at the UK rate, open to any Home or International (including EU) student who has applied to study on one of the Department's MA programmes.

Open to International (including EU) and UK (home) students.

Open to students in the Department of History.

Open to students who have applied to study on one of the Department of History's MA programmes:

MA in Contemporary History and International Politics
MA in Early Modern History
MA in Medical History and Humanities
MA in Medieval History
MA in Modern History
MA in Public History
MA in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
MA in Historical Studies
MA by Research

If you've applied to study part-time on one of the history MA programmes, you can still apply for this scholarship. You would receive the scholarship in two payments, one in each year of the two-year part-time MA programme. If you're a part-time student halfway through your MA programme, you can still apply for this scholarship. However, you will only be eligible to receive half of the funding value for the final year of your MA.