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Law (22)
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)

About the Programme

Join a leading Law school

UEA Law School is a vibrant and supportive community of expert academics & scholars, housed in the splendid 17th century Earlham Hall. It has strong links to the wider community, producing excellent policy-relevant and internationally recognised research. Over 75% of its research was ranked as world-leading or internationally excellent (REF 2021).

Research at the School of Law, UEA

We support excellent research, covering a host of approaches, from the purely doctrinal, theoretical or empirical, to socio-legal, economic, or anthropological analyses of law. We are keen to attract new PhD students with the potential to augment that, whether that be in areas where we have research “clusters”

  • Company & Commercial Law, Trade Law, and Dispute Resolution
  • Competition Law and policy
  • International Law and EU Law
  • Media, IT and IP Law
  • Social Justice
  • Medical and Health Law

or working alongside our active expert researchers in areas as diverse as: caring responsibilities and the law; criminal law, criminal justice and criminology; data protection, FoI and Big Data; environmental law; housing law; legal theory; medical law; private law; protest law, public order & policing; refugee law; and technology and the law.

We have well-developed collaborations with the inter-disciplinary Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) and members of the School have taken a leading role in developing UEA’s newly formed “Democracy and Activism” research grouping. The School has success in winning large grant applications – from the ESRC, the British Academy, Leverhulme, the Global Challenges Research Fund (Protection from Enduring and Overlapping Forms of Violence), the Legal Services Board and from the Nuffield Foundation (on medical capacity and consent). We maintain strong links with practitioners, industry and policy-makers. The School places value on the fact that its research has outward-facing engagement and impact. Colleagues in the School have roles on public and professional bodies such as the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, the National Police Chiefs' Council's Independent Digital Ethics Panel for Policing, and the Royal Town Planning Institute. Others have held appointments as Academic Fellows to parliamentary committees. Our faculty sit on editorial boards of prestigious journals, delivered training to lawyers, judges, and the College of Policing, given evidence to committees and inquiries, been consulted by international organisations, governments and practitioners, and been interviewed by news media.

We welcome the chance to play a formative role in the career development of its young researchers. The School and Social Science Faculty offer a full programme of training sessions for PhD students, in collaboration with the Law Schools at Essex and Sussex, through our involvement in Eastern Arc network. There are ample teaching opportunities, in both core and optional modules from your second year of study. Many of our PhD students are members of the various research groups across the School, and participate in our weekly research seminars. They are able there to present their research in a friendly and supportive environment, as well as at the School’s annual colloquium for our own PhD students. We can offer co-supervision with colleagues from other Schools – we have (or have had) supervisory relationships with colleagues from Medicine, Politics and Global Development.

Apply

We welcome applications from students with their own funding all year - please enquire for further information. UEA is a members of the ESRC/SENSS Doctoral Training Partnership. Potential PhD candidates in Anthropology and Development Studies, and in Geography and Environmental Studies can apply for projects within the SENSS themes of Resolving Uncertainty and Addressing Crises; Sustainability and Climate Emergency; Health, Wellbeing and Social Care; Justice Institutions and Social Change; Advanced Methods of Social & Economic Research. SENSS studentships are awarded on a competitive basis and are available as fractional awards from 3.5 to 4.5 years. SENSS studentships are open to students with or without a prior Master's degree, and to Home or International Candidates. Deadlines for application are listed on our information pages, where you will also find details of fees and funding.

Further information about our PhD programmes is on the School website. If you have specific questions about supervision possibilities or research topics, please contact the School’s Director for PGR Admissions, Professor David Mead, . To discuss the application process, please contact the Faculty Postgraduate Research Office at


Funding Notes

The University of East Anglia is a member of the SENSS doctoral training partnership which offers fully-funded studentships on a competitive basis. For further information about SENSS studentships please visit: View Website

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