PhD scholarships with bursaries within the school of Human and Health Sciences open to competitive application for September 2018

The Scholarships

A new opportunity is available for four outstanding doctoral candidates to develop their careers as researchers within the School of Human and Health Sciences at Huddersfield University. The School has an ambitious programme of research that is making a real difference to people's lives. We are highly collaborative, working closely with others to tackle real-world problems for health and society. We help to form opinions. We drive improvements to practice. And we influence policy. In short, we make things better. Postgraduate research students are an integral part of our research community. Working closely with our leading research centres they play an important role in helping us achieve our shared aspirations.

Huddersfield University has a growing research reputation and is also a TEF Gold and multiple award-winning institution. Our postgraduate research community has expanded considerably in recent years and we would now like to attract further doctoral researchers of excellent potential with the offer of four scholarships. These comprise bursaries with full fee waivers, and there is the possibility of further fee waiver only Scholarships for impressive candidates. All postgraduate researchers in our School benefit from skilled supervision by experienced and enthusiastic researchers and a comprehensive programme of training in research methods and researcher development.

Three of our bursaries are intended to supplement the new UK doctoral loan and are therefore set at £6,000 per annum over three years. A fourth three-year bursary is set at £14,800 for 2018-19 (rising each year) and is offered as part of the University Alliance, Social Policy Doctoral Training Alliance (DTA) scheme.

For all four scholarships, tuition fees (Home/EU rates only) will be waived for the three years during which the bursary is received and, if necessary, for a writing-up year. Overseas applicants will be required to cover the annual difference between Home/EU and the overseas tuition fee rates (for 2018/19 this difference is £9,835 per annum).

Who we are looking for

As well as a current or imminent first-class undergraduate degree or distinction at masters’ level, you will have a passion for your discipline/s. You are likely to have demonstrated your potential as a high calibre researcher through either employment in a research setting or conducting impactful research as part of a master’s qualification. We would also be interested in your application if you have demonstrated outstanding research potential through empirical research conducted during an undergraduate degree. You may already have direct work experience of areas where your research might be applied and, regardless of whether or not you are a practitioner, you will certainly have a clear view of the potential impact of your proposed research findings.

You can find more information here

Areas of research for which applications are invited

For all four scholarships, we are particularly interested in attracting applications proposing a research project relevant to the research themes listed below, or an interdisciplinary project which spans two or more of these areas. Those interested in applying for the Doctoral Training Alliance bursary will need to submit a research proposal for themes marked with an asterisk and the proposal must have a substantial social policy focus. The link below provides further information about each research theme and also indicate which aspects of a theme are open to applications for the DTA bursary.

You can find more information on research areas here.