Applications are now invited for full time studentships for postgraduate research degrees in law beginning at Kent’s Canterbury campus in September 2018.
Scholarships for Kent Law School’s PhD in Law are awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via the South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS), and by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) via the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South East (CHASE). Other awards include Kent Law School Studentships and the Vice Chancellor’s Research Scholarships.
It is expected that successfull applicants will undertake their studies in areas of existing research strength of the Law School; research proposals in socio-legal studies, law and the humanities, and critical legal studies are particularly welcome. Deadline dates for all applications are in January with interview dates scheduled in February – full details are on our website.
Unless otherwise indicated, successful applicants for the studentships will receive a maintenance grant equivalent to that currently offered by the ESRC and a fee grant which will fully cover tuition fees paid at the Home/EU rate.
Students awarded a Kent Law School Studentship or Vice Chancellor’s Research Scholarship may be expected to do some teaching on an undergraduate law module, at the direction of the Head of School.
For those who intend to undertake an LLM by Research, Kent Law School invites applications for the Larry Grant Scholarship.
Kent Law School is a dynamic and cosmopolitan centre of world-leading research with a vibrant community of more than 70 postgraduate research students. Students benefit from an inclusive research culture and study within a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment that includes many opportunities to engage critically with academic research and contemporary issues.
Programmes offered at our Canterbury campus include:
A specialist PhD Programme in Law is also available at the University’s centre in Brussels.
In the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), Kent Law School was ranked 8th in the UK for research intensity and was ranked within the top 20 for research output, research quality and research impact. It is also ranked amongst the top 100 law schools in the world in both the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2017 and the Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017.
(For students interested in postgraduate taught degrees, Kent Law School also offers a number of Taught Master’s Overseas Scholarships and Taught Master’s Home/EU Scholarships as well as three Kent LLM Student Awards for students who are from or who have studied an undergraduate degree in Kenya, Nigeria and Thailand).