Research funding opportunities

There are currently no funding opportunities available for continuing students.

Oxford Brookes Business School

Global Challenges Research Studentship:

Sustainable Cities and Communities

Bursary: £16,000 pa (with no inflation increase)

Deadline: The closing date for applications is October 10^th 2018 (12 Noon)

Interview date: Interviews to be decided

Start date: January 2019

Eligibility: Home/EU/International

As part of the University Global Challenges Research agenda, the Business School is offering a Global Challenges Research studentship under the theme Sustainable Cities and Communities in partnership with Stellenbosch University in South Africa. We are seeking exceptional candidates to study for a full-time PhD, starting in January 2019, to address rising global concerns over security and insecurity through local and community-based security initiatives in South Africa and the UK.

This full-time studentship, which includes a commitment of seminar support to undergraduate or graduate students, will be for 3 years subject to satisfactory progress. The bursary will be £16,000 per annum, and fees will be paid by the School.

We are particularly interested in attracting PhD candidates who wish to pursue research on local security initiatives in South Africa and the UK (with a priority for research in South Africa). Security landscapes are rapidly changing due to rising public concerns over (in)security, growing numbers of security organizations and expanding security technologies. This has seen new forms of organizing for security being developed, such as community-based, multi-stakeholder, security initiatives. The project is broadly interested in such questions as:

• What are the organizational challenges encountered in such local multi-stakeholder security initiatives and how are these addressed?
• How do these local security initiatives offer new ways forward in addressing pressing security challenges as they play out in the day-to-day realities of communities?
• How can a better understanding of alternative ways of organizing for security inform security research in all its complexity?

Other security-related research topics for research in South Africa (potentially in comparisons with the UK) are welcome as well.

Applicants are expected to hold a good undergraduate degree and a good Master’s degree at merit level or above in a relevant area of the social sciences (organization studies, sociology, criminology, security studies, anthropology, political science). Applicants should also be able to demonstrate strong qualitative research capabilities, preferably an experience of having conducted fieldwork, and be fluent in spoken and written English.

We are looking to recruit a candidate of the highest quality and who is capable of submitting a PhD thesis within three years. PhD students will take part in the School PhD programme, offering seminars and training on research methodology as well as a collegiate environment to present work in progress.

The supervisory team will include Professor Juliette Koning (j.koning@brookes.ac.uk)

For more information about research in the School of Business visit: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/business/research/

How to apply: To request further details of how to apply, please email: j.koning@brookes.ac.uk and business-research-office@brookes.ac.uk

Please ensure you quote Security Research in the email title when applying.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Social Sciences

Three year full-time funded PhD Studentship
 

Eligibility:                                  Home/EU and International Students

Bursary:                                     £16,000 pa

Research expenses                    £2.5K pa

Fees:                                          Tuition fees at the Home/EU rate will be paid by the University.

Deadline:                                  The closing date for applications is 12.00pm, 1 October 2018
 

Interview date:                            Interviews will be held as soon as possible after the deadline.

Start date:                                  21 January 2019

We are pleased to offer a PhD Studentship in the Department of Social Sciences and applications are invited for PhD proposals in ‘The implications of China’s Belt and Road initiative in developing sustainable communities in Central Asia.’  The supervisory team will consist of Dr Rico Isaacs, Dr Sarah Whitmore, (both PO and IR) and Dr Ingrid Medby (GG).

This PhD is designed to be inter-disciplinary across Politics, International Relations and Geography. It will explore macro-issues related to China’s Belt and Road (BR) through the prism of local, non-Sino, perspectives.  It will also examine BR via the perspectives of different stakeholders involved on the ground in recipient states.

We welcome proposals on any single Central Asian case or a study which examines the impact of BR on the region comparatively. The topic is broadly conceived but could seek to explore the issue of BR in Central Asia in three potential ways, including (but not confined to):

1. the production of space - in terms of how it is changing local perspectives on identities, borders and sovereignty

2.     local governance and policy, especially how injections of BR and finance impact and influence local community governance in project sites            in the region

3.     different forms of risk and security in the region including: economic, environmental, political and community.

Further details of the project are given in the application pack. 

*Applicants are strongly advised to contact a member of the supervisory team (ricoisaacs@brookes.ac.uk) with a short outline of the potential research proposal before submitting an application.*  

The Studentship is open to both Home/EU and International students, but the funding will only cover Home/EU research degree fees. Therefore International applicants will need to fund the difference between the Home/EU and International research degree fees each year.  Please see this page for information on current fees: /studying-at-brookes/finance/

As a successful applicant, you will join a supportive and research-active Department.  For more information visit http://www.social-sciences.brookes.ac.uk/

Eligibility:  We are looking to recruit a candidate of the highest quality and who is capable of submitting a PhD thesis within 3 years. Applicants are expected to have completed a relevant Masters degree prior to the Studentship start date. The Studentship holder may also be required to complete supplementary research methods training in their first year of study. Applicants should also be able to demonstrate strong research capabilities and be fluent in spoken and written English and have supporting certificates where appropriate.
 

How to apply: To request an application pack and for further details of how to apply contact hss-researchdegrees@brookes.ac.uk  with ‘China BR Studentship’ in the subject title

Department of Social Sciences

Global Challenges Research Fund

Three year full-time funded PhD Studentship

Eligibility:                                Home/EU and International Students

Bursary:                                   £16,000 pa

Fees:                                        Tuition fees at the Home/EU rate will be paid by the University

Research Expenses                  £2.5K pa

Deadline:                                                The closing date for applications is 12.00pm, 1 October 2018

Interview date:              Interviews will be held as soon as possible after the deadline.

Start date:                                21 January 2019

This GCRF studentship is in partnership with Trung Vuong University in Vietnam. We are seeking exceptional candidates to address the challenge for Vietnamese communities of young migrants coming to the UK.  The project will be interdisciplinary across Sociology and Development Studies.

We welcome proposals on a broad range of issues relating to Vietnamese migration to the UK., including (but not confined to):

1. The Vietnamese diaspora in the UK and issues of identity & belonging and familial practices.
2. Precarity and low-skilled labour among Vietnamese migrants
3. The impact of migration to the UK upon the sending communities in Vietnam
4. The migration experience including a focus on legal and social statuses and disrupted/continued familial practices.

You will benefit from supervisors based both at Oxford Brookes and at Trung Vuong University (Vietnam), with the opportunity of annual visits to the partner institution in Vietnam.

A full project description is provided in the application pack. 

*Applicants are strongly advised to contact the supervisor Tamsin Barber tbarber@brookes.ac.uk  with a short outline of the potential research proposal before submitting an application.*

The Studentship is open to both Home/EU and International students, but the funding will only cover Home/EU research degree fees. Therefore International applicants will need to fund the difference between the Home/EU and International research degree fees each year.

Please see this page for information on current fees:

/studying-at-brookes/finance/

As a successful applicant, you will join a supportive and research-active Department.  For more information visit http://www.social-sciences.brookes.ac.uk/
 

Eligibility:  We are looking to recruit a candidate capable of submitting a PhD thesis within 3 years. Applicants are expected to have completed a relevant Masters degree prior to the Studentship start date. The Studentship holder may also be required to complete supplementary research methods training in their first year of study. Applicants should also be able to demonstrate strong research capabilities and be fluent in spoken and written English and have supporting certificates where appropriate. Knowledge of Vietnamese language would be desirable for this post.

The supervisory team will be Dr Tamsin Barber (Oxford Brookes University), Prof Tina Miller (Oxford Brookes University) & Dr Nguyen Van Phuc (Trung Vuong University).
 

How to apply: Please contact hss-researchdegrees@brookes.ac.uk quoting “Vietnamese communities Studentship” in the subject title.

 School of Architecture

 Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP)

Three-year full-time funded PhD Studentship

Eligibility:         Home/EU and International Students

 Bursary:            £15,000 per annum for three years for a stipend
Up to £7,300 for research support, including travel and subsistence for visits to partner institutions

 Fees:    Tuition fees will be paid by the University

 Deadline:          1 October 2018

 Interview date: 18 October 2018

 Start date:         21 January 2019

“Leave no one behind: responding to long term development with less dependency on aid in humanitarian crisis: young people with disabilities as agents for change”

The Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment at Oxford Brookes University is pleased to offer a three-year, full-time PhD studentship to a new student commencing in January 2019.

The successful candidate will work within the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) under the supervision of Prof Cathrine Brun and her team and will collaborate closely with the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut, Lebanon. This is a fully funded PhD studentship with an annual bursary of £15,000.

Brief project description:

The sustainable development goals have the aim of leaving no-one behind. CENDEP has successfully contributed to new guidelines for working with disability in humanitarian crises and at the same time has high levels of expertise in researching protracted refugee crises. The project seeks to explore new modes of increasing participation among persons with disabilities in Lebanon and the Middle East. For this purpose, we are calling for applicants who will conduct a doctoral research project on the theme of young people with disabilities as agents for change in the context of the current refugee crisis in Lebanon. A comparative project (with another country) could be accepted.

The  PhD candidate will be working on this project part of a Disability Hub which Oxford Brookes University and the Centre for Lebanese Studies at LAU are in the process of establishing in Lebanon. The objective of the Disability Hub is to develop and implement a research and advocacy strategy into issues around disability, participation and representation (political, social, economic, etc.) of disabled persons in general but more specifically, those of a refugee and migrant background. The hub will also critically inquire the discourses about disability and ability, gender binaries, participation and inclusion, power and representation, citizenship and refugee status, their interactions and their effects on engagement with disability issues and its politics, more generally.

We expect that the successful candidate is willing to spend considerable time in Lebanon to conduct fieldwork in collaboration with the CLS.

We are seeking candidates with:

-          A good  higher degree in Social Sciences and cognate disciplines

-          Experience of research on refugees or disabilities or both

-          Methodological insights in either qualitative or quantitative methods

-          Experience of teamwork

-          Excellent written and oral communication, organisational and time management skills

-          A real passion and commitment for research and scholarship

Desirable selection criteria:

-       Experience in academic fieldwork, or field experience as a practitioner

-       Knowledge of Arabic Language

Together with a covering letter and CV you must submit a maximum 10-page outline research proposal. A PhD proposal should include clear research aims/questions, justification for the study, some overview of existing research and literature in the field of study, a description of methodology and a timeline.

Enquiries: Please email Prof Cathrine Brun cbrun@brookes.ac.uk.

How to apply: For further information on how to apply, please email tdestudentships@brookes.ac.uk for an application pack, quoting “Development and Disability” in the subject line. 

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The Postgraduate Doctoral Loan scheme is available from 2018-19, and further information can be found at:

https://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying-at-brookes/finance/postgraduate-finance---uk-and-eu-students/postgraduate-doctoral-loans/

• This loan is open to students who start their programme after 1st August 2018.  Students in receipt of Research Council funding cannot apply.
• A total of £25,000 is available over the duration of a course and this will be paid annually in 3 instalments. 
• The loan will be divided equally across each year of your course. 
• Students must be registered on the Doctoral Degree and not on a Masters award to qualify.  
• tudents are encouraged to apply from Year 1 as it cannot be backdated.