Projects in this pathway will contain an element of cross or inter-disciplinarity - the combining of methods and insights of two or more academic disciplines into a research project – and/or the innovative use of data using advanced methodologies. Projects will demonstrate methodological innovation and enquiry, and forge links between disciplines and departments spanning any and all subject areas. As such this pathway is open to applications from all eligible MGS DTP disciplines. We encourage such working across research council remits (an ESRC strategic steer), but the primary supervisor must be from an existing MGS pathway to ensure the project is at least 51% social science in orientation.

Collectively across the MGS there is a strong emphasis on encouraging the crossing of ‘traditional boundaries’ between academic disciplines or schools of thought, that address new and emerging issues or are applied to complex subjects that can only be understood by combining the perspectives of two or more fields or through the application of methods from other areas to issues that arise in another discipline. Many MGS institutions, both within and outside of the social sciences have also invested heavily to develop enhanced capability in advanced forms of data analysis – from advanced quantitative methods (AQM) to statistical modelling and the analysis of large data sets – and embedded such AQM and administrative data research across postgraduate training programmes, which proposed projects can draw upon.

This cross-cutting interdisciplinary pathway is available via all other pathways available at the University of Nottingham:

• Applied Linguistics
• Area Studies
• Economic & Social History
• Economics
• Education
• Health & Wellbeing
• Human Geography
• Management & Business Studies
• Political Science and International Relations
• Psychology
• Socio-Legal Studies
• Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology

Your lead supervisor must be based in one of the pathways listed above and you should make your PhD admissions application to the School in which they are based.

Key Facts:

Structure of Provision:	Masters + PhD funding or PhD-only funding, either full-time or part-time
PG Application:	Apply for a PhD in the relevant school via the University of Nottingham online admissions system. Please specify you have applied for ESRC funding on your Nottingham application.
Pathway Contact:	Prof Marek Korczynski