Applications are now open for PhD study opportunities at ISER.
The deadline for applications is 5th February 2016. We offer fully-funded studentships PhD (+3) and PhD with MSc (1+3) with the ESRC and fully-funded studentships with the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change.
The studentships are open to all suitably qualified applicants, regardless of nationality. Supervision is in economics, applied social and economic research, survey methodology and health research.
ISER provides bespoke training courses and the opportunity to work with world-class resources alongside leading experts in longitudinal research.
We offer the following research degrees and a range of fully-funded studentships.
PhD in Health Research
This PhD program is aimed at students with a strong interest in quantitative health research. We offer supervision in a wide range of topics under the broad umbrella of social epidemiology.
These include social inequalities in health, poverty and health, ethnic variations in health, child health and development, inter-generational processes, and ageing and health. We especially welcome students interested in health research using panel or cohort surveys such as the British Household Panel Survey, Understanding Society, and the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
PhD in Economics
This PhD program is targeted at students who are interested in applied micro-economics and micro-econometrics and plan to use socio-economic survey data for their research.
We offer supervision in a wide range of fields: economics of the family; education; migration; labour markets; retirement and pension; health economics; inequality, poverty and income distribution; public policy; ethnicity, etc. Given our extensive experience in analysis of cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, we also welcome students interested in panel data and survival analysis, missing data, measurement error, endogeneity and other estimation issues.
PhD in Applied Social and Economic Research
This PhD program is targeted at students who are interested in quantitative research in sociology and other social sciences.
The PhD would involve the use of secondary data to answer socially relevant research questions. We offer supervision in a wide range of fields: social stratification, social class and other forms of disadvantage; social behaviour, beliefs and values; occupational choice and mobility; migration; social change; life cycle and biography; social group identity; sociology of education; family and socialization; etc.
PhD in Survey Methodology
This PhD program is targeted at students with a strong interest in quantitative survey methodology.
We offer supervision in a wide range of topics including sampling, weighting, non-response, response maximisation techniques, mode effects, data linkage and measurement error.
We especially welcome students interested in research on sampling and non-sampling issues using cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys such as the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society.
Visit our study pages to find out more about funding, supervisors and the process for applying