Collaborative Studentship Competition - SeNSS

The South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS) invites you to apply for a funded supervisor-led collaborative studentship starting in October 2022. This studentshipaward will provide you with around £20,000 per year to undertake postgraduate studies.

Funded by the Economics and Social Research Council , SeNSS offers13 social science disciplines (Pathways)across 10 universities with exceptional reputations for postgraduate training and research:

• City, University London
• University of East Anglia
• University of Essex
• Goldsmiths, University of London
• University of Kent
• Reading University
• Roehampton University
• Royal Holloway, University of London
• University of Surrey
• University of Sussex

Pathways/disciplines:

• Business and Management Studies
• Development Studies
• Economics
• Education
• Human Geography
• Linguistics
• Politics and International Relations
• Psychology
• Science, Technology, and Sustainability Studies
• Social Anthropology
• Social Work and Social Policy
• Socio-Legal Studies
• Sociology

Note: not all universities offer all Pathways

What is a SeNSS collaborative studentship?

• Join an expert team of leading social scientists and an external partner who have already developed and defined a research project.
• Play a leading role on this team as the postgraduate researcher.

Whyapply?

• Get paid to study! This funding is intended to cover your living costs and tuition fees, allowing you to focus on your research.
• Work on an innovative disciplinary topic, obtaining a PhD.
• Be supported by an expert supervisory team.
• Join a friendly community of postgraduate researchers .
• Have access to fantastic training and funding opportunities, not only in your specific field, but also in the broader academic sense.
• Develop important employability skills, enabling you to work in, amongst others, industry, government, an NGO, or in academia.

What options are available?

• +3 (PhD) or 4-year (Masters and PhD) studentships.
• Full- or part-time study.
• Fully-funded studentships (tax-free living costs at approximately £15k per year, plus London weighting where relevant, tuition fees fully paid for the duration of your funding award, and access to additional funding for overseas fieldwork, language training, and/or other research training) for successful applicants.

Are you eligible?

• Residential criteria: Fully-funded studentships are available to prospective students regardless of nationality or residency. Please check our website for the full residential criteria.
• To apply for a Masters plus PhD you will need: qualifications or professional experience equivalent to a Bachelors degree with honours.
• To apply for a PhD only you will need:qualifications or professional experience equivalent to a Masters, which includes relevant research methods training.

I’m interested! How do I apply?

For more information, please go to the SeNSS website

Research Project: The drivers of demand for intellectual property (IP) instruments in the UK
Supervisor: Prof Suma Athreye
In collaboration with: UK IPO
SeNSS Pathway: Business & Management
SeNSS University: University of Essex

Research Project: Points of Contact: Researching new resources and strategies for teaching and learning music notation in tactile form for blind children using the Sounds of Intent Framework of Musical Development
Supervisor: Prof Adam Ockelford
In collaboration with: The Amber Trust
SeNSS Pathway: Education
SeNSS University: University of Roehampton

Research Project: How do schools prevent emerging issues with body image?
Supervisor:Dr Faith Orchard
In collaboration with: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
SeNSS Pathway: Psychology
SeNSS University: University of Sussex

Research Project: Shared book reading with young children with Down Syndrome: working with parents to enhance parent-child interaction and child language and communication outcomes
Supervisor: Dr Emma Pagnamenta
In collaboration with: Down Syndrome Education International (DSEI)
SeNSS Pathway: Linguistics
SeNSS University: University of Reading

Research Project: First Steps to Independence: Evaluating a Behaviourally Informed Travel Training Programme
Supervisor:Dr Amrish Patel
In collaboration with: Norfolk County Council
SeNSS Pathway: Economics
SeNSS University: University of East Anglia

Research Project: Flower, flora, fauna: can novel metrics of verbal fluency performance help detect individuals at risk of future cognitive decline?
Supervisor: Dr Claire Lancaster
In collaboration with: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
SeNSS Pathway: Psychology
SeNSS University: University of Sussex

Research Project:: Developing a Psychological Model of Recovery from Postpartum Psychosis
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Hodgekins
In collaboration with: Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
SeNSS Pathway: Psychology
SeNSS University: University of East Anglia

Research Project: Understanding sensorimotor optimisation of bimanual telerobotics from a human user perspective
Supervisor: Professor Dr Peter Scarfe
In collaboration with: RACE (UK Atomic Energy Authority)
SeNSS Pathway: Psychology
SeNSS University: University of East Anglia