The Strathmartine Scholarship

The Strathmartine Trust offers a three-year scholarship for support of a PhD candidate in a subject related to Scottish History, which is awarded for study in the University of St Andrews.

The third Strathmartine Scholar, appointed in 2023, is Jordan Clark, who is undertaking a study entitled Tides of Dissent: Jacobitism and Scottish migration among the Keelmen of Tyne and Wear, 1689-1830.

Jordan Clark
Jordan Clark

The Strathmartine Scholarship was first awarded in September 2015 to Morag Allan Campbell for her thesis on ‘This distressing malady’: Madness and childbirth in nineteenth century Scotland.

Morag Allan Campbell
Morag Allan Campbell

The scholarship was awarded for the second time in September 2018, supporting the study of Daniel Leaver towards a PhD entitled The Politics of Oil in Scotland’s 1970s.

Daniel Leaver, Strathmartine scholar
Daniel Leaver