The Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP is offering one Project-Linked ESRC-Turing Doctoral studentship in conjunction with The Alan Turing Institute for October 2019 entry. 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@turing.ac.uk.

Many congratulations to our Midland Graduate School funded student Eleonora Alabrese from the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, who has been referenced in the Independent newspaper. Eleonora's joint-authored study with Dr Thiemo Fetzer ‘Who is NOT voting for Brexit anymore?’ was quoted by the Independent in their article ‘Brexit voters hit by austerity now realise how EU membership benefits them, new academic study finds’ available online here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-austerity-survey-benefits-leave-areas-eu-funds-migration-warwick-a8652341.html

Applications for ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship competition with the Midlands Graduate School commencing in October 2019 are now open. The final deadline for applications is 16.00 on Friday 22nd March 2019 although there are earlier individual institutional deadlines that may apply.

For further information on how to apply and to access the relevant application forms please visit: www.mgsdtp.ac.uk/studentships/postdocfellowships/

Are you an ESRC-funded PhD student?

The ESRC want to hear from you about how your research contributes to people having better lives, and why your research matters.

The ESRC are running their third Writing Competition to reward outstanding written communication and to communicate social science research to the wider general public.

They'd like you to write about your research in an article of no more than 800 words, and send it to the ESRC by 16.00 on 7 December 2018. The writers of all shortlisted articles will be invited to attend a writing masterclass run by our partner SAGE Publishing and an award ceremony in London. Winners will receive a £1000 prize and two runners up will each receive £500.

More details at https://esrc.ukri.org/skills-and-careers/writing-competition