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 projects for October 2019 entry are now open. Please see below for further information. This webpage will be updated with further advertisements in due course.

This year the Midlands Graduate School is also offering one Project-Linked ESRC/Turing Doctoral studentship in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute for October 2019 entry. For further information please see below and for details regarding the project available and information on how to apply please see here.

Project-Linked ESRC/Turing Studentship

This year the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP is offering one Project-Linked ESRC/Turing Doctoral studentship in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute. The project 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). The student 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 the project available and information on how to apply please see here.

The deadline for applications to apply for the ESRC/Turing Project-Linked studentship is: 7 February, 2019 at 12 noon (GMT)

For any enquiries regarding this position, please contact gpogrebna at turing dot ac dot uk.

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
Aston University	Management & Business Studies	Citizens UK Birmingham	Civil society and entrepreneurial ecosystems: the case of Citizens UK and Birmingham’s microbusinesses	Friday 15 March 2018
University of Birmingham	Education	The Philosophy Foundation	Tackling extremism through philosophy in schools	Wednesday 6 March 2019
University of Birmingham	Social Policy	Release	Reducing Drug Policy Harms Through Police-Led Reform: What Works, Where and Why?	Friday 15 March 2018, 5pm
University of Leicester	Communication & Media	Greenpeace	Environmental communication and campaigning on air pollution	Wednesday 6 March 2019
University of Leicester	Museum Studies	Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access	The secret lives of digital museum resources and collections	Monday 11th March 2019
Loughborough University	Education	Times Tables Rock Stars	Optimising Learning of Multiplication and Division Facts in Schoolchildren	Thursday 28 February 2019
University of Nottingham	Digital Society	XPRIZE Foundation	The efficacy of digital technologies in transforming global learning	Friday 8 March 2019
University of Nottingham	Economics	Overseas Development Institute (ODI)	Effective Tax Policy in Africa	Friday 8 March 2019, 4pm
University of Nottingham	Education	Ilixa	Learning to see: How do social scientists learn to interpret fMRI	Wednesday 6 March 2019
University of Nottingham	Sociology	RSPCA	Ensuring the social legitimacy of animal research: Comparing public and policy expectations Further details regarding the academic content of this studentship	Monday 4 March 2019, 5pm
University of Warwick	Management & Business Studies	Living Wage Foundation	Understanding employer delivery of good work in the UK Further details regarding the academic content of this studentship	Monday 11th March, 5pm
University of Warwick	Health & Wellbeing	Age-UK Warwickshire, Coventry & Rugby CCG, & South Warwickshire CCG	Investigation of the implementation, take-up and use of an online personalised platform for those who care for people with dementia	Friday 8 March 2019

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	Towards the Next Generation of Farming: The Impact of Industry 4.0 in Agricultural Supply Chains	Friday 1 March 2019
University of Birmingham	Psychology	University of Nottingham	Social mechanisms of self-harm in adolescence	Monday 11 February 2019, 12pm (noon)
University of Leicester	Economic & Social History	University of Warwick	Execution and Empire: A History of Judicial Killing Under British Colonial Rule, 1815-1980 Further details regarding the academic content of this studentship	Monday 4 March 2019, 5pm
Loughborough University	Social Policy	University of Birmingham	Evaluating the psychosocial criminogenic influences on youth offending	Monday 4 March 2019
University of Nottingham	Management & Business Studies	University of Warwick	Productivity Challenge: the Role of Technology Standards	Thursday 14 March 2019
University of Warwick	Management & Business Studies	University of Nottingham	Social inequalities entering civvy street: researching the importance of class and gender in determining labour market outcomes of military veterans Further details regarding the academic content of this studentship	Friday 15 March 2019, 5pm