University of Kent

Postgraduate Fees and Funding

(SSPSSR) is pleased to offer a number of postgraduate doctoral research student scholarships each year. SSPSSR has a world-wide reputation for excellence, and is one of the leading research centres in social policy and sociology in Britain. In the last Research Assessment Exercise, ours was the largest entry in the Social Work and Social Policy Unit of Assessment and 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 research programmes across a broad range of social policy, sociology and criminology, and has particular strengths in the following research clusters:

• Crime, Control & Culture
• Cross-National and European Social Policy
• Environmental Social Science
• Health Care and Health Studies
• Migration
• Philanthropy
• Race and Ethnicity
• Risk, Risk Society, Risk Management and Welfare Reform
• Social History
• Social Work and Social Care
• Sociological Theory and the Culture of Modernity
• Sociology of the Body / Social Policy and the Body
• Social Movements
• Urban Studies and Housing
• Work, Employment and Economic Life.

 

ESRC 1+3 Studentships
Applications are invited for three quota ESRC '1+3' and 1 Open ‘1+3’ studentships in sociology and social policy to start in September 2010. These awards cover the costs of UK students undertaking the MA in Methods of Social Research followed by a three-year PhD.  The awards cover tuition fees, maintenance (currently £12,900 a year) and a training support grant. EU students who have been resident in the UK for three years prior to starting are also eligible.
http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/postgraduate/research_council/esrc.html  

 Departmental Awards
In addition to the above, the Department will be offering a number on scholarships and bursaries at different levels.  The above awards are open to all new postgraduate doctoral research students. To be considered for any of the above awards, you must have applied for, been offered, and accepted a place at Kent and have an identified supervisor/s. You can apply on-line anytime from the following link:
http://records.kent.ac.uk/external/admissions/pg_application.php

Applicants should normally have (or be expecting) a Class I or good Class II (i) honours degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.   In addition to your application we will require a three-page research proposal*, two academic references and a transcript for your previous degree.  For overseas applicants for whom English is not your first language we will also require an IELTS/TOEFL report with a minimum overall score of 6.5 and at least 6 in reading and writing.

The deadline for applications is Friday 5th March 2010 at 16:00

Please send the above documentation to:
Jeremy F Bede-Cox, School Administration and Business Manager, SSPSSR, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF J.F.Bede-Cox@kent.ac.uk 

(* Research proposals should be a maximum of 3 pages [inclusive of bibliographic references], should be double-spaced and should be written in Times script size 12.  Applications should include the names of two referees).

Fees for 2009/10 academic year

University of Kent PG Funding information pages

ESRC 1+3 and +3 Open Competition 2010