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Studentship Award Structure

SEDarc offers a variety of award structures and lengths, depending on prior training and course arrangements. Award length is based on full-time study, however, part-time awards are possible. All award lengths listed below include time for a 3-month Research in Practice placement, for more information about this visit the placement page. If a student does not undertake a placement, the award length will be reduced by 3 months.

 

+3.5: three and a half years of funding for a PhD, including a placement

Applicants will have qualifications or professional experience equivalent to a Masters degree, or a Masters degree and already have the research skills needed to successfully complete the PhD research project.

 

+3.75: three years and nine months of funding for a PhD, including a placement

Applicants will have qualifications or professional experience equivalent to a Masters degree, or a Masters degree and already have the research skills needed to successfully complete the PhD research project. However, there may be gaps in skills that require additional modules to be completed.

 

1+3.5: four and a half years of funding for a one-year integrated master’s programme, followed by a PhD

Three and a half years of the PhD, including a placement, will be funded. Applicants will have qualifications or professional experience equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree (Honours) and have not already undertaken a social science masters.

  • Please note that the ESRC does not fund standalone Master's programmes, students must intend to carry out doctoral research.
  • A Master's qualification is not a prerequisite for SEDarc, all pathways have options for students without a Master's, with training designed for individuals based on an assessment of their prior learning and training needs.
  • Master's funding will normally only be awarded to students who do not already have a Social Sciences Master's. Where a student already has a Social Sciences Master's degree but lacks some of the core skills required to commence a PhD, they may be allocated funding to enable them to undertake the additional training requirements as well as their PhD, for example, an award for 3.75 or 4 years.
  • The masters programme and PhD must be completed at the same university.
  • You may only apply for a Masters programme listed below and offered by your chosen university.

University

Masters Programme

Discipline

Kent

International Conflict Resolution and Negotiation

Politics & International Relations

Methods of Social Research

Social Policy & Sociology

MSc Business Analytics

Business & Management

MSc Psychology (open subdiscipline option)

Psychology

MSc Ethnobotany

Anthropology

MSc in Conservation Science and Management

Geography

MSc Marketing

Business & Management

Reading

MA Education

Education

MSc by Research

Henley Business School

MSc in Research Methods in Psychology

Psychology

MSc Language Studies

Psychology

Royal Holloway

MSc Clinical Psychology

Psychology

MSc Economics

Economics

MSc Elections, Campaigns, and Democracy

Politics & International Relations

MSc Global Futures

Geography

MSc Media, Power, & Public Affairs

Politics & International Relations

Surrey

MRes Economics

Economics

Sussex

MRes Research Methods in Psychology

Psychology

MSc Development Economics

Economics

MSc Social Research Methods

Interdisciplinary