Highlands and Islands Campus
AHRC Celtic Crescent
Deadline
Value
Funded
Location
Glasgow / Highlands & Islands Campus
Contact
pgr-admissions@gsa.ac.uk
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is an academic partner in the AHRC funded Celtic Crescent Doctoral Focal Award, a multilingual consortium of seven HEIs across Cornwall, Scotland and Wales working in partnership to deliver 20 fully-funded PhD studentships across four cohorts (2026–2029). The consortium also includes 27 non-HEI partners working in the creative economy. These are a mix of creative businesses, arts organisations and incubators along with major stakeholders such as Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, Creative Kernow, and Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
The consortium aims to help grow the next generation of research and innovation talent in the creative economy, focusing particularly on creative economy microclusters marked by inequality, under-representation, and marginalisation arising from geographic, socio-economic, and linguistic factors. The Glasgow School of Art is particularly interested in supporting practice-based research projects, but Studentships may be discipline-spanning, interdisciplinary, industry-led or minority-language research. Studentships may be undertaken full-time or part-time. Further details will be available when the call goes live, with applications expected to open in early 2026.
Key Research Themes
Applications for Celtic Crescent studentships will open in February 2026. More details of the the scope of studentships available, including partners and supervisory arrangements will be made available once applications open.
Supervision Arrangements
Funding Arrangements
Celtic Crescent studentships are funded, covering the cost of fees and a stipend to cover living expenses.
Full details of the value of the award will be announced when applications open in January2026.
Application Process
Eligibility
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