The award will cover UK tuition fees and an annual stipend based on the current ESRC studentship maintenance (2021/22 rate £15,609). The Tizard Studentship is offered as a Graduate Teaching Assistantship. So, in return for the award, you will be expected to do a limited amount of teaching within the department on a regular basis.
The deadline for this scholarship has now passed.
Candidates will have obtained a First or good 2.1 undergraduate degree in a relevant subject and normally an MA/MSc at Merit or Distinction.
The Tizard Centre is one of the leading academic groups concerned with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to work alongside academics renowned nationally and internationally for their contributions to the field. The Tizard Centre offers the following research programmes on a full or part-time basis:
For further information about the Tizard Centre, the academic staff and the research we undertake, please see our website.
We welcome applications concerning all aspects of the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, but the academic staff named below are particularly interested in supervising research in the following specialist areas:
To be considered for the scholarship, apply online for a place to study one of the following:
Important
Please note that one of the documents you upload to your Kent Applicant Portal should be a covering letter. This must be added to your application by the Studentship deadline. The aim of the Tizard PhD studentship is to enable the successful candidate to have research impact in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities. This could be kickstarting a new research career or accelerating a research career for an established practitioner.
Therefore, as part of the application process, we ask that you upload as part of the admissions process a covering letter indicating how being awarded the Tizard PhD studentship fits into your medium/long term career aspirations. If you are shortlisted, you will be asked to speak about this at interview stage.
If you would like to have an informal discussion about possible research topics within the intellectual and developmental disabilities field and/or the required teaching contribution, please contact: Professor Michelle McCarthy at M.McCarthy@kent.ac.uk