A national competition has just been launched for up to eight postgraduate studentship awards (all on the ESRC +3 model) to start in the academic year 2009/10 and 2010/11. These prestigious doctoral studentships are offered by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Department for Transport and Government Scotland. The funding is part of the UK Transport Research Centre (UKTRC), a new £7.25 million five year research centre aimed at bringing new social science insights to bear on the UK's transport policy issues. The UKTRC is a partnership between the University of Leeds, Imperial College London and University College London.
The purpose of this scheme is to support studentships at UK universities that bring to bear new insights from social science research disciplines to further the understanding of the role of transport in society and its links to and impacts on the economy, the environment, health and social inclusion. The disciplinary scope of the work includes (but is not limited to) perspectives from anthropology, economics, geography, history, law, marketing, science and technology studies, sociology, psychology, statistics, social policy, politics, and planning.
Full details of the studentship competition can be found at:
http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/postgraduate/fundingopportunities/UKTRCopportunities.aspx
The deadline for outline applications is 18th December 2009.
Any ESRC accredited department is eligible to host a studentship.
If anyone would like any further information about the scheme then they should contact the scheme manager Dr Greg Marsden ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, Tel: 0113 343 5358).
Further details about the UKTRC programme, activities and opportunities which the Centre will provide over the coming five years will be provided at this year's UTSG conference - outline details are available at http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/research/centres/UKTRC.aspx
Dr Greg Marsden
Director of Research Capacity Building - UKTRC
Institute for Transport Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
Tel: +44 (0)113 3435358
Fax: +44 (0)113 3435334
Web: www.its.leeds.ac.uk
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