De Montfort University has launched its latest round of competitive PhD scholarships, for full scholarships (UK and EU only, with a stipend of £15,009 per annum) and fee waiver scholarships (including overseas). More details on how to submit applications and what to include in the final submission are available here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BQL657/de-montfort-university-phd-scholarships.
If you are interested in making an application in relation to education (in all sectors), please let me know via rhall1@dmu.ac.uk In particular, we have expertise in relation to the following, although other areas of education-related research are possible.
- Educational transitions
- Intersectional experiences of schooling
- Educational psychology and the student experience
- School refusal
- The impact of disability
- The impacts of neoliberal education policy, across sectors
- The relationship of policy to pedagogy and practice, across sectors
- Academic labour and the political economy of higher education
- Alternative and co-operative higher education
- Critical race theory and higher education
- Intersectionality and higher education
- Prison education
- Music education and the professional development of music educators
- Forest schools and environmental education
- Schooling and spacial theory
- Translational education and the impact of research and practice
Your work would be based in our new Institute for Criminology, Education and Social Justice (ICESJ). Broadly, we welcome applications from students capable of developing innovative, interdisciplinary and internationally-relevant social science research in fields related to criminology, education, community and social justice, including (but not limited to) policing, probation, prisons, education (in all sectors), youth work and social work. We further encourage applicants interested in collaborative projects across research centres.
Applicants interested in working with us on an education-based PhD should, in the first instance, submit a research proposal of around 500 words, outlining the proposed project. This should include:
- an overview and research questions;
- an explanation of the theoretical positioning of the project;
- the proposed research methodology and methods;
- links to one or more research areas noted above, alongside one or more of the 17 United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The proposal should be submitted, with a CV, to me (rhall1@dmu.ac.uk), to identify support and supervision for the project.
Once approved by a potential supervisor, the student must submit final scholarship applications to pgrscholarships@dmu.ac.uk by Tuesday 26 March 2019.