In addition to the pathway specific studentships, the Midlands Graduate School DTP will offer a number of Collaborative Studentships involving research or other activities with external public, private or third sector organisations. As part of the Midlands Graduate School, we also offer a number of Joint ESRC DTP Studentships. Students will be fully registered and hosted at one of the Midlands Graduate School institutions, but will have a second supervisor at another MGS institution.

Applications for our Collaborative and Joint and projects are now open. Please see below for further information.

This year the Midlands Graduate School is also offering two Project-Linked ESRC/Turing Doctoral studentships in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute for October 2018 entry. For further information please see below and for details regarding each of the projects available and information on how to apply please visit the Alan Turning Institute website.

Collaborative projects are advertised here on the DTP website and Joint projects are advertised here on the DTP website.

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Collaborative Studentships

In order to apply for one of the advertised collaborative studentship projects as listed below, you will need to complete the ‘Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP Collaborative Studentship Application’ form available here  and you may need to submit additional information as part of your application. Please check the relevant project advertisement to see if additional documentation is required and ensure that you send all application material (including the completed application form) to the relevant email address as noted in the advertisement.

Additionally please read the Collaborative Guidance notes for Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP applicants before completing the application form.

University	Training Pathway	Collaborating Organisation	Research Topic (including link to advertisement)	Application Deadline
University of Birmingham	Human Geography	Collaborative Change	Nudging social tenants: effects, ethics and evaluation of behavioural insights in housing	Monday 19 February 2018
University of Birmingham	Political Science & International Relations	British American Security Information Council (BASIC)	Conceptions of Responsibility Among the Nuclear Weapon Possessors	Friday 16 February 2018
University of Birmingham	Social Policy	Near Neighbours	What difference does civil society make? Exploring relationships between social cohesion and associational life in the context of ethnic and religious diversity	Friday 16 February 2018
University of Leicester	Economic & Social History	The Howard League for Penal Reform	The History of The Howard League for Penal Reform, 1866-1948 Further Project Details	Monday 19 February 2018, 11.59pm
University of Leicester	Economic & Social History	The National Archives	Poverty, Work and Punishment: Vagrancy Across the Midlands, 1834 to 1930	Tuesday 20 February 2018
University of Leicester	Human Geography	The James Hutton Institute	The contemporary rural gentry and processes of rural gentrification in England and Scotland	Monday 26 March 2018, 9.00am
Loughborough University	Education	NoMoreMarking Ltd	Understanding the role of executive functions in secondary mathematics learning	Friday 16 February 2018
Loughborough University	Social Policy	Family Fund	The cost of bringing up a child with autism Further Project Details	Friday 16 February 2018
University of Nottingham	Management & Business Studies	The Family Holiday Association	Empowering family self-efficacy through social tourism	Friday 25 May 2018
University of Nottingham	Political Science & International Relations	Transparency International UK	The 2008 UK financial crisis: policy, regulatory and state capture?	Friday 16 March 2018
University of Nottingham	Psychology	onebillion	Using digital technology to support early years learning for pupils with English as an Additional Language	Friday 16 February 2018
University of Warwick	Economics	Direction de l’Animation de la Recherche, des Etudes et des Statistiques (DARES)	Evaluation of French Labour Market Policies	Wednesday 14 February 2018

Joint Studentships

In order to apply for one of the advertised joint studentship projects as listed below, you will need to complete the ‘Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP Joint Studentship Application’ form available here  and you may need to submit additional information as part of your application. Please check the relevant project advertisement to see if additional documentation is required and ensure that you send all application material (including the completed application form) to the relevant email address as noted in the advertisement.

Additionally please read the Joint Guidance notes for Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP applicants before completing the application form.

University (where the student will be registered)	Training Pathway	Joint University	Research Topic (including link to advertisement)	Application Deadline
Aston University	Management & Business Studies	Loughborough University	Industrial Organisation and Supply Chain Management	Wednesday 28 February 2018
University of Birmingham	Psychology	University of Nottingham	The role of self-stigma and shame in suicidality and self-harm among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people	Friday 23 February 2018, 5pm
University of Leicester	Health & Wellbeing	University of Nottingham	Navigating perceived overdiagnosis and overtreatment	Monday 12 February 2018
Loughborough University	Communication and Media	University of Nottingham	Managing Selfhood in Dementia	Saturday 10 March 2018
University of Nottingham	Psychology	Loughborough University	Exploring the relationship between sensorimotor integration and social processing in autism	Wednesday 14 February 2018
University of Warwick	Management & Business Studies	University of Nottingham	Banking on Data Science: Big Data Analytics of Consumer Behaviours Across Financial Spaces	Monday 19 February 2018, 11.59pm

 

Project-Linked ESRC/Turing Studentships

This year the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP is also offering 2 Project-Linked ESRC/Turing Doctoral studentships in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute. Both projects will be undertaken as part of at the Department of Economics, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham to be supervised by Professor Ganna Pogrebna (ESRC/Turing Fellow, University of Birmingham). Students will be registered at the Department of Economics, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham but will spend the majority of the programme at The Alan Turing Institute in its headquarters at the British Library.

For further details regarding each of the projects available and information on how to apply please see here.

The deadline for applications to apply for the ESRC/Turing Project-Linked studentships is: 12:00GMT 19 February 2018 (12 noon UK time)

Questions can be directed to the Researcher Development and Training team: doctoral-scheme at turing dot ac dot uk