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Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) PhD studentships at Birkbeck
2023/24 entry funding available
ESRC PhD studentship applications are open for doctoral research at Birkbeck, with opportunities for Masters training attached to your chosen PhD programme.
Birkbeck is a research-intensive university based in central London with a community of over 700 research students. Our vibrant and intellectually challenging research environment is built upon 200 years of research excellence.
Birkbeck is a member of the UCL, Bloomsbury and East London (UBEL) Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the UK Government funded ESRC.

Value of funding
- Awards for up to 4 years full time or 7 years part time depending on mode of study and your chosen pathway
- Tuition fees covered so you can study for free
- A tax free stipend (£18,062 in 2022/23) for living expenses
Eligibility
- Applicants must meet the entry criteria for their chosen PhD programme
- Home and International students are eligible to apply
Widening participation
- Applications are encouraged from under-represented groups, including people with disabilities, ethnic minorities (especially Black British), lower income families and mature students.
Deadline: 30 November 2022
- You must submit a UBEL preliminary application by 30 November 2022 to be considered
- Information about how to apply is available here
Important: Applicants are advised to be in discussion with prospective supervisors as early as possible in the Autumn term.

Complete your doctoral research with an ESRC UBEL studentship at Birkbeck in any of the following areas:
Archaeology and Heritage Studies
Disciplines include Archaeological Practice, Cultural Heritage Studies, Heritage Studies, Public Archaeology, Heritage Science and Sustainable Heritage.
Economic and Social History
Focusing on the relationship between society, the economy and power, state formation and emergent fields such as educational history, healthcare, environmental history and technology and material/consumer culture.
Economics
Exceptionally strong and complementary expertise in the field of economics and finance.
Gender and Sexuality
Expertise in the areas of gender and: international development, psychosocial studies and sociology, law, media and cultural studies, and sexuality and history.
Health and Wellbeing
Health and well-being in the family; lived experience of health and illness; resilience in breast cancer; health psychology; quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods.
Law and Criminology
Birkbeck Law has a reputation for pioneering new fields of legal scholarship offering a strong critical, theoretically-driven and dynamic research culture and have a breadth of expertise and research interests.
Linguistics
With an emphasis on interdisciplinary methods, we seek to understand the nature and functions of language and communication in real-life contexts through rigorous, critical examination.
Politics and International Relations
Students follow their research interests with a distinctive emphasis determined by focus and methodological approach.
Psychology
Great breadth with interlocking areas of strength in development, education, social change, language, cognition, neuroscience, and computation.
Psychosocial Studies
An interdisciplinary field drawing on critical frameworks to study the interconnections between individual subjectivities, group identities, and historical and contemporary social and political formations.
Sociology
A range of sociological perspectives emphasizing interdisciplinarity. Wide thematic reach, innovative and rigorous methodologies, global outlook; and a commitment to ‘critical’, theory-building research.

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