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 2020 entry are now open.Please see below for further information. This webpage will be updated with further advertisements in due course.

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	Punch Records	Organising for Positive Social Change: The Case of Punch Records	Monday 2 March 2020
University of Birmingham	Area Studies	Nature Conservation Research Centre (NCRC), Ghana	Learning from community conservation in Ghana	Monday 2 March 2020
University of Birmingham	Education	Save the Children	How can private schools in India provide inclusive education to disadvantaged and marginalized children?	Monday 2 March 2020
University of Birmingham	Psychology	National VIPER® Bureau	Determining how UK policing should construct identification parades: Using diagnostic-feature-detection theory to maximise eyewitness identification accuracy	Friday 6 March 2020
University of Birmingham	Social Policy & Social Work	Office for National Statistics	Exploring the effects of Caring on Mental and Physical Health using Population Database Linkages	Friday 6 March 2020
University of Birmingham	Sport & Exercise Science	One Dance UK	Deliberate self-harm in UK dance students: Prevalence, predictors, and prevention	Friday 28 February 2020
Loughborough University	Communication & Media	The Alzheimer's Society	How do people with dementia and their carers use Alexa-type devices in the home? An interactional study	Friday 6 March 2020
Loughborough University	Communication & Media	LOROS, Hospice Care for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland	Communicating about end of life and related matters in hospice consultations	Monday 2 March 2020
Loughborough University	Communication & Media	TechNation	HealthTech: Critically appraising the innovation ecosystem of a transformative technology	Monday 2 March 2020
Loughborough University	Education	David and Jane Richards Family Foundation	Evaluation and development of a data science curriculum to increase motivation and ambition for further study and careers in Computing and STEM	9am, Monday 2 March 2020
University of Nottingham	Social Policy	Unlock, for people with convictions	An investigation into the policies and practices of UK universities for applicants with criminal records	Wednesday 4 March 2020
University of Nottingham	Sociology	Nottingham University Hospitals Trust	Is 'elderspeak' always inappropriate? An empirical investigation of the use of elderspeak in dementia care	9am, Monday 24 February 2020
University of Warwick	Education	Down Syndrome UK	Families' experiences of genetic testing for Down syndrome	4pm, Monday 2 March 2020

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	Area Studies	University of Birmingham	Refugee Housing, Activism and Movement Parties in Athens and Rome	Monday 2 March 2020
University of Birmingham	Psychology	Loughborough University	Rethinking the origins of self-awareness in human infancy with virtual reality (VR)	Monday 2 March 2020
University of Leicester	Human Geography	University of Birmingham	The digitalisation of agriculture	Monday 2 March 2020
Loughborough University	Communication & Media	University of Nottingham	Managing Selfhood in Dementia: Interrogating the operationalisation of identity work and its relationship with media representations	Friday 14 February 2020
Loughborough University	Management & Business Studies	Aston University	Multinational Enterprises and Taxation	Friday 6 March 2020
University of Nottingham	Psychology	University of Birmingham	Developing a new self-harm assessment tool for autistic adults with and without mild intellectual disability	Monday 2 March 2020
University of Warwick	Psychology	University of Leicester	Promoting Digital Resilience in Adolescence	8am, Friday 28 February 2020