Vice-Chancellor's PhD Scholarships, Social Sciences, PhD

As part of our commitment to investing in research that shapes lives and society, we are awarding 12 fully-funded Vice-Chancellor’s PhD Scholarships for 2014.

Research is undertaken across the range of social science disciplines and covers the breadth of social and governmental concerns. The areas of research that are of particular interest to us and in which we can offer PhD supervision, are based on projects connected with the following research groups:

Politics and International Relations

• International studies
• Political Theory
• European Politics
• Political participation.

Psychology

• Addiction and Aberrant Behaviours
• Wellbeing
• Cognition and Perception
• Language and Psycholinguistics
• Development, Interaction and Social Relations.

Sociology and Criminology

• Community engagement
• Crime (including crime reduction, criminal justice, responses to crime, policing, penology, criminological theory, hate crime)
• Geography of social problems and public service provision
• Religion and sexuality
• Work and employment
• Young people and inclusion.

Social Work and Professional Practice

We are particularly interested in pursuing research that adopts a participatory design and research that impacts upon social policy. Our particular areas of research expertise lie in:

• Social inclusion / exclusion
• Homelessness
• Faith and social welfare
• Comparative social policy / social welfare and the Chinese community
• Fostering and adoption
• Children, young people and safeguarding
• Mental health / substance misuse and offending.

The scholarships will pay UK / EU fees and provide a maintenance stipend linked to the RCUK rate (£13,726 per annum for 2013/14) for up to three years.

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The closing date for applications is Friday 24 January 2014 at 09:00.

The School of Social Sciences has research that is world leading and internationally recognised for the major contribution that it has made to the advancement of knowledge. Covering a range of disciplines, Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University has a strong focus on theoretically-informed and applied research that is multi-disciplinary in nature.

Social Sciences at NTU encapsulates a diverse range of research activity which brings together academics engaged in:

• applied research
• psychology
• politics and international relations
• sociology
• social policy and social work

The last Research Assessment Exercise in 2008 ranked Nottingham Trent University joint 8th in the country for it research in social policy, with 60% of its research activity regarded as either world-leading or internationally excellent.

Support and supervision
During your research, you will be supported by a dedicated supervision team with specialist knowledge in your field of activity. You will also have full access to student support centres, financial advice, careers advice, disability support, counselling and an accommodation service.