University of Surrey manages world-class social science training centre
Monday 24 January 2011
The Universities of Kent, Reading, Royal Holloway, and Surrey have come together to form the South East Doctoral Training Consortium (SE DTC).
The consortium, managed by Surrey, will fund cutting-edge doctoral research in the social sciences by world-class research students across the South East region. Fields include interdisciplinary research in Environment, Energy and Resilience as well as a comprehensive range of nine social science disciplines. The advanced training element of the consortium’s activities will also be linked to the Universities of Essex and Sussex. The first intake of research students holding studentships under the DTC system will be in autumn 2011.
Accreditation was a highly competitive process, with only 21 such consortia securing accreditation nationally. Professor Nigel Fielding, Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, commented: “Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) accreditation marks the excellence of doctoral supervision in the partner institutions and the innovative, high impact research our PhD students conduct. The partners have forged a strong working relationship and are looking forward with great enthusiasm to playing a vigorous part in the national Postgraduate Framework that ESRC is creating.”
ESRC is the UK's leading agency for research funding and training in economic and social sciences. The SE DTC will be part of a national network to be launched in October 2011 that will train a new generation of social scientists.
Doctoral studentship opportunities will be posted on the SE DTC website as soon as possible