SSPSSR has a world-wide reputation for excellence and is one of the leading and largest research centres for social science in the UK. In the last Research Assessment Exercise, we were ranked joint third with 70% of our research being evaluated as either ‘World Leading’ or of ‘International excellence in terms of originality, significance and rigor.’
The School offers an unrivalled European context in which to study for a PhD in the social sciences. We are a member of the South East Doctoral Training Centre (SEDTC) which awards scholarships funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the School has been awarded European Union Erasmus Mundus funding for a Doctorate in Cultural and Global Criminology (DCGC).
In the coming months we will be awarding a number of School and University Scholarships for entry in September/October 2014 only. All our scholarships cover tuition fees at the postgraduate standard home/EU rate (£3,900) in addition to an annual maintenance stipend which is £13,726 per annum (2014-2015 rate).
Successful candidates will have obtained a First or good 2-1 undergraduate degree, and ordinarily an MA or MSc at Merit or Distinction level. Our scholarships include as part of their value a Graduate Teaching Assistantship which involves successful candidates undertaking a limited amount of teaching. For more information on GTAs visit the GTA site for more information.
We have a thriving postgraduate community of well over 200 students and offer a large and diverse range of Professional Development Seminars, School seminar programmes, Workshops, Methods and Advanced Research Methods Training, a Developing Your Teaching Certificate, Skills Training, Study groups, and writing/career workshops (home and abroad) for our students. Present postgraduate students are conducting research into a wide range of issues including comparative social welfare; the third sector; sociological and cultural theory; religion; violence; cultural criminology; new media and technology; work and employment; environmental movements; the sociology of the body; penal policy; intoxication and drug policy; suffering; youth transitions; sex, gender and sexuality; ethnicity and identity; and a range of other topics.
Deadline for applications is 16.00 on Tuesday 6 May 2014. Interviews will be held on Thursday 22 May 2014 on our Canterbury campus.
For more information and how to apply, please go to the ‘New Scholarships’ tab of our scholarship pages.
Information on our postgraduate research programmes can be viewed on our postgraduate studies webpage. For questions about the application process please email the Postgraduate Office sspssr-pg-admin@kent.ac.uk