School of Education

Bath Spa University is offering up to ten full-time PhD / MPhil fee waiver studentships starting in the academic year 2013/14. Up to 5 studentships are available for practice based and practice led PhD / MPhil awards and up to 5 studentships are available for interdisciplinary PhD / MPhil awards across more than one subject area. These are all linked to the university's areas of research strength in creativity, culture and enterprise.

A fee-waiver studentship provides:

A full tuition and registration fee waiver
An allowance of £1,800, which may be used across the period of the studentship, to support research needs such as specialist training, equipment or conference attendance
Opportunities to develop teaching skills by participating in Bath Spa's CPLHE course, leading to HEA accreditation

The application deadline is 1 July, 2013, with interviews conducted on 24 July, 2013, for an enrolment date of 1 October, 2013.

Children's Social and Emotional Learning (Psychology and Education)

The proposed PhD project is in the area of children's social and emotional learning.
This is a growing area of educational research that has been shown to have benefits for many other areas of children's personal and academic development. The emphasis will be on building upon existing collaborative links between psychology and education. This is likely to involve (a) showing how recent psychological theories in the areas of social cognitive and emotional development have been used to inform innovative social and emotional learning programs; and (b) drawing on the statistical expertise of staff within the Psychology subject area to systematically evaluate one or more such programs.

Supervisors: Dr Gordon Ingram, Dr Janet Rose, Dr Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus
Contact: Dr Gordon Ingram