Call for Applications! University of Essex Media Fellowship Programme – Scholarship 2024!

The University of Essex is offering 10 scholarships to applicants who are ordinarily resident in India, are media professionals, and have successfully ensured the participation in the University of Essex Media Fellowship Programme.

The University of Essex Media Fellowship Programme is aimed at media content creators and journalists keen on developing their skills in multimedia contexts. The goal of the Fellowship Programme is to provide the media content creators with the skills and resources they need to create across media, and in particular, podcasts. The fellowship programme lasts for ten months, of which three months in the period of June-August 2024 are dedicated to the summer residential programme consisting of in-person courses on the University’s Colchester campus. This scholarship supports the fellows to undertake this in-person summer programme.

Eligibility

◼ Applicants must be ordinarily resident in India (see below for the definition of ordinary residence).

◼ Applicants must be media content creators that have already produced at least one piece of media content in the public domain.

◼ Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.

◼ This scholarship is available for the residential part of the University of Essex Media Fellowship Programme only, which takes place over a period of three months June-August 2024.

◼ Receipt of the scholarship is subject to applicants being selected for and firmly accepting the offer of study in the University of Essex Media Fellowship Programme. The details about the selection for the Fellowship Programme is outlined in the University of Essex Media Fellowship Programme application form.

◼ If you are offered a place on the programme, you will be asked to sign a Fellow Code of Conduct. Your participation in the program is conditional upon your signing of the Fellow Code of Conduct. This is separate to the University of Essex Terms and Conditions document.

◼ The award cannot be held in conjunction with any other University of Essex scholarships.

What is “Ordinary Residence”?

For the purposes of assessing eligibility for the scholarship, you must have been ordinarily resident in one of the listed country for the three-year period prior to commencing your course. Ordinarily resident means that you must have been habitually, normally and lawfully, residing in one of the countries listed, from choice, for the specified period. The three-year period for the course starting in June 2024 is calculated as 1 June 2021 to 1 June 2024.

How to apply?

► You will need to apply for place to study on the University of Essex Media Fellowship Programme at the same time as you apply for funding. There is one single form to apply for the Fellowship Programme and to apply for the related Scholarship and it must be accompanied by a personal CV/resume.

► To apply, download the application form and return it along with a CV/resume, to Ms Carrie Picket, Faculty Operations Manager (Faculty of Arts and Humanities), at [email protected]