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The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has recently awarded the KISS-DTC more than £5.2 million to support postgraduate studentships and training in the social sciences. Studentships will commence in September 2011 and will cover tuition fees as well as a maintenence grant and an additional Research Training Support Grant (RTSG) for three years for full-time students and six years for part-time students. Applicants for ESRC studentship funding must have applied for or already been accepted for admission to MPhil/PhD study in the social sciences at King’s, starting in 2011/12.
The KISS-DTC is organised around 15 cross-cutting research themes, connecting the social sciences with the humanities, the health sciences and the natural and mathematical sciences. In addition to providing studentships, ESRC funding will enable the KISS-DTC to run a number of placement and knowledge-exchange programmes with organisations across the public and private sectors. A range of advanced doctoral training and summer school courses will also be run collaboratively with learned societies and other universities, including the College’s international partners.
Research themes and training pathways:
The research themes of the KISS-DTC build on areas of established excellence, which at King’s often lie at the interfaces between social science with other traditions of knowledge and practice. These themes provide a framework to deepen collaborations between subject experts, and each one involves a series of more detailed training ‘pathways’, enabling students to progress from more than 230 masters programmes at King’s into more specialist doctoral research in the broad interdisciplinary areas of:
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