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 |
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MSc Business Analytics |
Business & Management |
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MSc Psychology (open subdiscipline option) |
Psychology |
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MSc Ethnobotany |
Anthropology |
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MSc in Conservation Science and Management |
Geography |
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MSc Marketing |
Business & Management |
|
Reading |
MA Education |
Education |
MSc by Research |
Henley Business School |
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MSc in Research Methods in Psychology |
Psychology |
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MSc Language Studies |
Psychology |
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Royal Holloway |
MSc Clinical Psychology |
Psychology |
MSc Economics |
Economics |
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MSc Elections, Campaigns, and Democracy |
Politics & International Relations |
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MSc Global Futures |
Geography |
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MSc Media, Power, & Public Affairs |
Politics & International Relations |
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Surrey |
MRes Economics |
Economics |
Sussex |
MRes Research Methods in Psychology |
Psychology |
MSc Development Economics |
Economics |
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MSc Social Research Methods |
Interdisciplinary |