ESRC North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
The North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) brings together the Universities of Keele, Lancashire, Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester offers postgraduate studentships, supervision, training and skills development across the full range of the ESRC’s disciplines. The partnership involves a critical mass of world-leading researchers able to supervise PGRs across the full range of social sciences, providing advanced methodological training, professional development and substantial early career mentoring. Keele’s academic lead on this programme is Dr Kate Cushing.
The DTP’s objectives are to:
- Play a central role in enabling diverse cohorts of social science PGRs to achieve their potential as future research leaders, by equipping them with the skills and capabilities required to have a transformative impact in a range of challenge-led environments of national and international significance
- develop future research leaders involves enhancing professional development, boosting employability initiatives, promoting access to bespoke careers support and making PGRs partners in shaping research, training and the environment
NWSSDTP holds annual competitions for:
- Postgraduate studentship funding;
- Collaborative studentship competition (CASE) where academics from the five NWSSDTP institutions apply for funding towards postgraduate projects that will be co-supervised with a representative from a non-HEI partner organisations;
- Postdoctoral Fellowships.
