Research Project Awards - College of Arts & Social Sciences

The College of Arts and Social Sciences is supporting eight new research projects with over FIFTY scholarships starting in Autumn 2013 and Autumn 2014:

Research Projects

• Authority and Texts: Concepts and Use
• Comparative Statecraft and Constitutional Thought
• Conflict, Transition and Peace
• Interdisciplinary Studies in Epistemology
• Investigating Educational Issues Through Secondary Data Analysis
• New Frontiers in Philosophy of Science
• Normativity: Nature, Narrative, Nihilism
• Offshore Energy Development: Legal and Regulatory Challenges

Each research theme has a minimum of two PhD scholarships available for entry in 2014-15. Scholarships are comprised of a full fee waiver plus £3,600 per annum in stipend, for three years, and are open to UK, EU and International applicants.

For more information about all of these research projects, please visit http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/graduate/scholarships-available-275.php.

How to Apply
Students must have been made an offer of a place at Aberdeen in order to be considered for a scholarship. For full details on how to apply to the University, please visit www.abdn.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply    

The closing dates for applications varies by project - the earliest is 28th February 2014 and the latest is Friday 7th March 2014.

Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law PhD Scholarships 

CISRUL offers inter-disciplinary PhD programme in Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law. This is perfectly suited to students whose interests cross more than one discipline, and who are worried about being told that their PhD project does not fit with the strictures of a single discipline.

Our studentship will include full UK/Europe fees and may include partial maintenance. Overseas students are welcome to apply and would receive partial maintenance but would need to pay the difference between UK/Europe and overseas fees (the difference is around GBP7100 per year). We welcome applicants from anthropology, business, cultural and literary studies, history, legal theory and socio-legal studies, philosophy, politics, religious studies, sociology and theology.

Note that applicants must hold or be close to completing a postgraduate Masters degree in a relevant field.

For more information visit
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul/studentships/