This pathway will work across UKRI remits and targets research ‘that generates the evidence needed to build resilience to environmental damage and climate change, drive a successful social and economic transition to a Net Zero society and a sustainable and biodiverse environment, and inform sustainable growth and desirable social outcomes’ (ESRC Strategic Delivery Plan 2022, p.23). This will involve collaborating with a wide range of disciplines within and outside of social sciences, as well as collaborations with external partners at both home and abroad. Moreover, this pathway will help facilitate international engagement, fieldwork and overseas institutional visits in line with UKRI’s (2022) International Strategic Framework that recognises the vital importance of international collaboration in research and innovation in ways that address wider imperatives, from global development to climate resilience.

MGS institutions recognise that research into this area can be driven from many disciplinary backgrounds. As such this pathway will be is open to applications from all eligible MGS DTP disciplines. We further encourage working across research council remits where appropriate (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.

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.

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