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Full-time studentships
Unit: Faculty of Arts and Social Science (FASS)
Salary: £14,057 per annum
Location: Milton Keynes
Please quote reference: 10237
Closing Date: 16 March, 2017 - 17:00
Full-time or part-time fee waivers Ref:  RD/SS/1711
Web link: http://www.open.ac.uk/about/employment/vacancies/full-time-studentships-10237

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences invites applications for full-time PhD studentships (three years) and full-time (three years) or part-time (six years) PhD fee waivers, commencing October 2017.

The Faculty has a thriving research culture and is engaged in world-class, critical and agenda setting research that has a strong focus on social justice, impact and public engagement.  We are committed to the enhancement and development of this culture as a priority in our mission. To this end, we welcome applications that can be supervised within, or across the following disciplines within the Faculty: Development Policy and Practice; Economics; Geography; Politics and International Studies; Psychology; Social Policy and Criminology; Sociology. Note that studentships in Arts disciplines within the Faculty were previously advertised and the closing date for these has now passed.

Further details of our PhD programmes and information on how to apply can be found at: http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/research/students/index.php

Applicants should have at least a 2:1 as a first degree, a relevant master’s degree and be interested in conducting research at a doctorate level in one of the following areas:

Development Policy and Practice, including: civil society, NGOs and social movements; health systems and development; Inclusive innovation and development; migration, transnationalism and development; 'Rising Powers' and Africa; states, political systems and developments, especially in Africa and Latin America

Economics, including: health economics; welfare economics; behavioural economics; personal finance; economics and development; economics of innovation; Post-Keynesian economics; economics of households

Geography, including: agriculture and food; culture and climate change; digital technologies and cities; geographies of migration, money and finance, religion and spirituality, sound; politics of consumption; resilience and social-ecological systems; visual culture, place and identity

Politics and International Studies, including: British and comparative politics; citizenship studies; democracy and social movements; international relationship and global politics; political ideas

Psychology, including: applied cognition; counselling and psychotherapy; critical, narrative, discursive and psychosocial research; forensic psychology

Social Policy and Criminology, including: policing and regulation; prisons and incarceration; social harm and crimes of the powerful; processes of criminalisation and social inequalities; institutionalised racism in the criminal justice system; violence and abuse; critical social policy

Sociology, including: Digital cultures, social networks and political change; digital, material and everyday participation, transformations and infrastructures; markets, consumption and cultural economy; migration, gender and generation; multicultural life, citizenship, difference, political conflict and social divisions; psychoanalytic sociology and the psychosocial; sociology of heath and medicine

Please see Job Related Information for more information on research areas, supervision and research environment within the Faculty.

Applicants must normally reside in the UK for the duration of the studentship.

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An application form and job related information are available from the web link.

For pre-submission enquiries, prospective applicants may write to Dr Agnes Czajka, Director of Research Degrees, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences ([log in to unmask]).

Completed application forms, together with a Research Proposal and a covering letter indicating your suitability and reasons for applying must be sent to [log in to unmask]

Application forms are available from http://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/research-degrees/how-to-apply.

Equal Opportunity is University policy