Fully funded studentships for PhDs at ISER now on offer

  • Applications are now open for prospective postgraduate students who wish to take up the fully funded studentships offered by the Economic and Social Research Council and open to all suitably qualified applicants regardless of nationality. The deadline for the fully funded studentships is 13 February 2015. Please click here for further details.
  • In addition, we are advertising two studentships linked to the ESRC Centre for Microsocial Change (MiSoC). Find out more details about these studentships and how to apply.

ISER is an interdisciplinary research centre with a thriving PhD program. We are currently accepting applications from students wishing to study for a PhD (+3) or an MSc and PhD (1 +3) in any quantitative social science discipline. Prospective students are invited to apply for one of our fully-funded studentships, available as part of Essex University’s ESRC Doctoral Training Centre studentships or for one of the two fully funded studentships available with the new Research Centre on Micro-Social Change at ISER.

These studentships are open to all suitably qualified applicants, regardless of nationality.

ISER offers PhD supervision in the following research pathways:

  • Economics
  • Applied Social and Economic Research
  • Survey Methodology
  • Health Research

Read more about our research environment for students and contact us to find out more about the application process..

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