Faculty of Humanities and
Social Sciences
Three
year full-time funded PhD Studentships
Eligibility: Home/EU
Bursary: £15,000 plus £1,500 research expenses per annum for a maximum of three years
Fees: Home/EU fees met by Oxford Brookes University
Deadline: The closing date for applications is 13.00 on Thursday 20th February
2020
Interview date:
Interviews will be held week
commencing 23 March 2020
Start date: week commencing 14
September 2020
Oxford Brookes University is pleased to offer three full-time PhD
Studentships within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Proposals are invited under the following
themes, from within and across all the disciplines represented in our Faculty:
- Refugees and Migration
- Children and Young People
- Gender, Diversity and Inclusion
- Environment and Sustainability
We have a large, lively and growing
postgraduate community working here in the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences, a group of impressive and dynamic students who are leading the way in
cutting-edge research. We are passionate about fostering the careers of our
early career researchers during their time here, and ensuring they gain both practical
and academic research skills, training and leadership experience as integral
parts of the doctoral programmes we offer. Oxford Brookes provides both a great
place to study and an opportunity to belong to a doctoral learning community
which nurtures excellence in research and scholarship. It is a great place to
share exciting research and learning with academic colleagues.
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
at Oxford Brookes University is an exciting arena for research. There are three
Schools, two Departments and one Institute, together representing a wide range
of opportunities for disciplinary, and interdisciplinary, work. For further
information on our areas of research excellence, and individual staff members'
research expertise, interested candidates are advised to visit our faculty and departmental web pages: Education,
English
and Modern Languages, History,
Philosophy and Culture, Law,
Social
Sciences and the Institute
of Public Care.
Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to
contact potential Directors of Studies to discuss their proposal, prior to
making an application and details about potential supervisors can be found on
the faculty and departmental webpages noted above.
Successful applicants will also be able to
access various Faculty, School and Departmental events and training sessions offered
through our Doctoral Training Programme; we want the experience of joining in
this academic community to represent an enriching and positive learning
environment and to involve membership of an intellectual community, with all
the opportunities for networking and collaborating that such connections
afford.
The
University has adopted equality, diversity and inclusion as core values. We
welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates whatever their
background.
How
to apply: For further information including details of how to apply, please
contact: hss-researchdegrees@brookes.ac.uk.
Sasakawa Postgraduate Masters by Research Studentship
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Eligibility: Home/EU (3 year residency status only – see below)
Mode of study: Full-time only
Funding: £10,000 (1 year only)
Deadline: Closing date for applications: 17:00 on Wednesday 02 March 2020
Start date: September 2020.
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University is pleased to invite applications for the Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentship in Japanese studies, made possible through the generosity of The Nippon Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
The Faculty can nominate the candidate for a Masters by Research studentship of £10,000, for the 2019/20 academic year.
Please note that although you may use your studentship to help towards the cost of your fees, you will be responsible for paying your fees.
We offer a broad range of expertise in contemporary Japanese culture, but candidates interested in religion (history or anthropology), death and dying, ageing and social issues, gender and the body, cinema, arts, or linguistics are especially encouraged to apply. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is home to the Europe Japan Research Centre, and we are one of the only Universities in the UK offering a specialisation in the anthropology of Japan.
Candidate Criteria:
- You must have a good undergraduate degree (a good 2:1 or above) or be predicted to obtain one.
- You must be either a UK citizen (regardless of your current residency) or settled in the UK or have been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least 3 years immediately preceding the start of your MA course.
- The research proposal must focus on Japan.
- It is important that you and your referees comment on your skill in Japanese in the areas of reading, composition and speaking.
- Interviews may partly be conducted in conversational Japanese.
- Candidates must have submitted an application for admission by the Studentship application deadline.
How to apply:
If you wish to apply please contact Terri Morris by email: hss-researchdegrees@brookes.ac.uk.
Sasakawa Postgraduate MPhil/ PhD Studentship
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Eligibility: Home/EU and International Students
Mode of study: Full-time only
Funding: £10,000 (initially 1 year)
Deadline: Closing date for applications: 17:00 on Wednesday 02 March 2020.
Start date: September 2020.
The Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University is pleased to invite applications for the Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentship in Japanese studies, made possible through the generosity of The Nippon Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
The Faculty can nominate the candidate for the MPhil/PhD studentship of £10,000. This studentship is initially for one year only, but may be renewable subject to satisfactory progress in subsequent years, up to a maximum of three years, beginning in September of the 2020/21 academic year.
Please note that you will be required to reapply for the studentship each year, and that the GBSF will consider these applications on their merits. The GBSF cannot make a recurrent three year commitment to any one PhD candidate from year one.
Please note that although you may use your studentship to help towards the cost of your fees, you will be responsible for paying your fees each year. International applicants should be aware that they will need to fund their fees at the international rate.
Candidates must have:
- a good undergraduate degree (a good 2:1 or above) or be predicted to obtain one.
- completed a degree with a substantive anthropology content or in Japanese studies, or in a discipline relevant to the proposed research, and have a sufficient level of Japanese language ability to engage in fieldwork in Japan where relevant (normally this should be equivalent to JLPT level 2 or above).
A Masters is desirable, but we will consider candidates without a Masters who can demonstrate the ability to engage in substantial independent research.
Part-time programmes are not eligible.
Candidate Criteria:
- The research proposal must focus on Japan.
- It is important that you and your referees comment on your skill in Japanese in the areas of reading, composition and speaking.
- Interviews may partly be conducted in conversational Japanese.
- Candidates must have submitted an application for admission by the Studentship application deadline.
How to apply:
If you wish to apply please contact Terri Morris by email: hss-researchdegrees@brookes.ac.uk
The
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
de Rohan Scholarship offered for candidates applying for the MA by Research programme
We are pleased to offer two Rohan Scholarships to two full-time or part-time students
studying on one of the following programmes: MA Creative Writing, MA English, MA History, or MA by Research in
the History of Art for September 2020 entry.
The scholarships are open to both Home/EU and International Students
(international students full-time only)
The scholarship
will provide a £1,000 payment towards
the costs of your tuition fees and will be awarded on the basis of a personal
statement.
The de
Rohan Scholarship is gifted by the de Rohan family in memoriam of their family
members who met and fell in love whilst studying at Oxford Brookes.
Margaret
de Rohan writes:
Named for Alison (née de Rohan) and Francis
Gaillard, who met and fell in love while reading for their BA degrees at Oxford
Polytechnic in the early 1980s. They married in September 1985 and had their
honeymoon in the Greek Islands. A year later they returned to Greece to
celebrate their first wedding anniversary.
A few
months later - on 6 March 1987 - after a day trip to Bruges to see some of the
art treasures there, they died together, within sight of Zeebrugge harbour,
when 'The Herald of Free Enterprise' ferry capsized and sank in less than three
minutes. One hundred and ninety one other people also died that tragic day.
In early
November 2005, my husband, Maurice, was diagnosed with cancer. Despite a major
operation and six months of chemo-therapy, he lost his valiant fight on 5
October 2006, and once again our family suffered a devastating loss.
But out
of tragedy, good can often flow. It is now my great pleasure to establish a new
postgraduate Scholarship - 'The de Rohan Scholarship' - in memory of Alison,
Francis and Maurice - which will provide a postgraduate Scholarship in the
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences for the MA courses in Creative
Writing, English or History and for the MA by Research in Art History."
The
closing date for applications for the scholarship is 17:00, Friday 19
June 2020. Please note applications will only be accepted from students who
have already been made a conditional or unconditional offer by Oxford Brookes
University. Please also note that International students are only eligible for
FT scholarships.
- If you
are a home/EU student and would like further information, eligibility, and
details of how to apply please see here
- If you
are an international student and would like further information, eligibility,
and details of how to apply, please contact the scholarship administrator,
Charmian Hearne at chearne@brookes.ac.uk
If you are specifically interested in the MA by
Research in Art History, and would like further information, eligibility, and
details of how to apply, please see here
Application forms can be downloaded here:
International form
Home/EU form