ESRC Doctoral Training Studentships

Ten ESRC-funded studentships per year

London Social Science is an ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) comprising a consortium between Goldsmiths and Queen Mary.

Ten ESRC-funded studentships per year will be available to research students via this DTC. Studentships will cover up to four years of tuition fees and provide an annual maintenance grant. They’ll fund a combination of research training plus MPhil/PhD research.

Each of the successful students will have the potential for a variety of flexible models of research training where the student can either follow a 1 + 3 model (ie a 1 year doing an MA, MRes or MSc in advanced research training plus 3 years of funding for the completion of the PhD) or more other models where the research training is completed throughout the course of the 3 or 4 years of the studentship.

The subject pathways available under the scheme include:

• anthropology
• cultural studies
• business and management
• economics
• geography
• media and communications
• politics
• psychology
• socio-legal studies
• sociology

For details of where each of these pathways is based (Goldsmiths or Queen Mary or both), please see the London Social Science website.

London Social Science is one of only 21 national ESRC DTCs. All social science PhD students at both institutions are able to benefit from the excellent and innovative research training that is provided within the DTC.

Applying

Full application details (for studentships commencing October 2012) are available here.

You must submit your ESRC application as part of your online programme application to study with Goldsmiths. Once you have filled in the ESRC application form please upload this to the 'personal statement' section of the online application form with the ESRC application at the top of the document and the personal statement following this in one single text (such as Microsoft Word) document. You must then entitle this document 'ESRC'. Wherever possible please submit all supporting documents with your application. Where this is not possible please send them directly to the academic department you are applying to making it very clear its for an ESRC application:

Sociology: sociology-phd@gold.ac.uk

Politics: Professor James Martin j.martin@gold.ac.uk

Media and Communication: Miss Zehra Arabadji z.arabadji@gold.ac.uk

Anthropology: Fiona Coward f.coward@gold.ac.uk

Psychology: Denise Barry d.barry@gold.ac.uk

Cultural Studies: Professor John Hutnyk john.hutnyk@gold.ac.uk

Deadlines

• Submit your application and request reports from your referees by: 4pm Monday 30 January 2012
• Referees should return their references by: 4pm Friday 3 February 2012

Further information
If you would like further information about the Goldsmiths/Queen Mary Doctoral Training Centre, or would like to discuss informally the studentship application process please contact Lesley Hewings (l.hewings@gold.ac.uk) or Sarah Reed (sarah.reed@gold.ac.uk).

DTC Advanced Training Courses

QMC/Goldsmiths ESRC Doctoral Training Centre is offering Advanced Training courses to all DTC  students as well as non-DTC students in relevant departments.  The first of  these courses, Politics of Overseas Fieldwork, is to take place on the 3rd May at Queen Mary.

This is being  advertised on the National Centre for Research methods website: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/ as  well as on the London Social Science website, Goldsmiths Grad School webpages  and the VGS at: http://grad.gold.ac.uk/. 

Please note there  are only 30 places available on a 'first come first served basis'.  The course is free  to all QM and GC students but there is a small charge (£30 students £60  for staff at UK HEIs) to external attendees.

Please contact Sarah Reed (sarah.reed@gold.ac.uk) to express an  interest in attending.