PhD Studentship: Education: ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences

Overview

Swansea University offers a PhD studentship through the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The Department of Education and Childhood provides a setting with diverse substantive and methodological expertise, focusing on areas such as socioeconomic inequalities in education, care-leavers and estranged students, parental engagement, education leadership, digital influence on education, children's voices, curriculum and policy, additional learning needs, animals in education, and philosophical underpinnings of educational theory and practice. Staff members specialize in advanced quantitative methods, participatory action research, innovative creative methodologies, and qualitative research techniques.

Who can apply

The department welcomes applicants who want to pursue distinctive and pioneering projects that have the potential for real-world impact. Individuals from different backgrounds are encouraged to apply, with particular interest in those possessing practitioner experience in education.

What you get

The funded studentship covers both tuition fees and an annual tax-free living stipend. The stipend aligns with United Kingdom Research and Innovation minimum rates, set at twenty-one thousand eight hundred and five pounds per annum for the twenty-twenty-six to twenty-twenty-seven period.

Key dates

The closing date for applications is the sixth of December, twenty-twenty-six.