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Cambridge is one of 14 institutions selected by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to provide innovative training to doctoral students.

The collaboration will see the University host a Doctoral Training Partnership, part-funded by the ESRC, which will offer development opportunities to students in 24 participating departments over the next six admissions cycles.

In addition to the training the participants would typically receive through their courses, they will also have the opportunity to work with some of the University’s non-academic partners in the government, industry and charity sectors. They will also work on collaborative projects with students from other disciplines, focusing on broad areas of social science including:

  • sustainability, prosperity and well-being;
  • inequality, equity, justice and economic growth;
  • conflict, culture, mobility and development;
  • emerging technologies, human behaviour and productivity;
  • cognition, behaviour, language and learning.

Participants will be based across the University – and will include a mix of students who study core social science disciplines and some whose research is primarily based in other areas, but involves elements of social sciences.

Around 500 studentships will be available nationally each year through the Doctoral Training Partnership across its accredited institutions. The Cambridge programme will be hosted by the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences and will launch in October 2017. It will succeed the School’s existing Doctoral Training Centre. Further details on both of these initiatives are available here.

Published

19 August 2016