The Department of Comparative and Applied Social Sciences can offer up to 5
bursaries of £600 each plus travel costs to black and minority ethnic
postgraduate social science students or freelance researchers. The intention
is to support the development of 'race'-related research capacity in the
Department by encouraging BME researchers to engage with staff and students
in the department here and to provide modest support to those who often find
themselves at the margins of research from a higher education base. Each
bursary would be paid with a requirement that the recipient would work up
and deliver a paper on aspects of social science research practice or
methodology relating to issues of 'race' and ethnicity, to a joint
staff/student seminar series being planned at Hull University for the
second semester of next academic year (February-July 2004) i.e. it is
effectively a payment for the equivalent of 2-3 days work in preparing
the paper . The recipient would also be encouraged to attend other
seminars in the series or research seminars within the
Department as appropriate.
Anyone interested in receiving a bursary should send an application of no
more than one page of A4 by post or email to Gary Craig at the address
below, by June 30th at the latest. The bursary will be paid in advance and
applications should therefore include an estimate of the travel costs likely
to be incurred in visiting CASS. CASS is a very research-active
ESRC-recognised department covering aspects of social policy, social
justice, criminology, sociology, anthropology and gender studies with, at
present, more than fifty registered PhD/MPhil students and more than 20
substantial research contracts in progress, many of which have a strong
'race' dimension. Further details can be obtained from us as well as of
our research monograph series.
If demand for these bursaries outstrips supply, the applications will be
adjudicated by a small panel from the Departmental Research Committee.
Please circulate this note to all relevant students or freelance researchers
with whom you have contact.
Gary Craig
Professor of Social Justice
University of Hull, Hull
HU6 7RX
tel 01482 465780
email [log in to unmask]
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