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South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (ESRC)

The 91¶¶Òõ is one of the partners in the  funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The South Coast DTP is a beacon of excellence, innovation and imagination in postgraduate training for the next generation of social scientists.

The ESRC South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP) is now accepting funding applications from Home (UK) students wishing to commence their studies in the 2025/26 academic year. The South Coast DTP will be awarding studentships to social scientists carrying out PhD studies, or Masters + PhD studies at its four partner institutions, start date October 2025.

These 'open call' studentships are for projects for which applicants devise their own project proposal and identify a potential supervisor. Applicants should approach a potential supervisor prior to submitting an online application. Speculative applications will not be accepted.

Through this exciting collaboration between the Universities of 91¶¶Òõ, Chichester, Portsmouth and Southampton, the South Coast DTP aims to deliver the latest developments in training in research methods and skills to produce highly qualified and rounded social scientists, equipped to meet contemporary economic and social challenges. 

  

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Key facts

Disciplinary pathways Education; social policy; sport, leisure and tourism

Research centres ; ; 

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Deadline Monday 06 January 2025, 11.59pm

Interviews February 2025, dates tbc

Find out how to apply

Entry requirements

Academic entry requirements

We fund students undertaking Masters+PhD programmes (1+3.5 funding) and stand-alone PhD programmes (+3.5 funding).

1+3.5 funding

Applicants must have or expect to gain:

  • a good honours degree at first or upper second-class level, from a UK academic higher education institution, or a combination of qualifications and/or experience that is equivalent to a relevant UK degree.

Applicants are also required to submit a research proposal of around 1500 words. 

+3.5 PhD funding

Applicants must have:

  • a good honours degree at first or upper second-class level, from a UK academic higher education institution, or a combination of qualifications and/or experience that is equivalent to a relevant UK degree.

And have or expect to gain:

  • a level of research training that would allow them to proceed directly to PhD. This is usually through the attainment of a previous masters qualification in the social sciences with a Merit grade.

Applicants are also required to submit a full research proposal of 1500 words (see How to apply below for guidance).

English language entry requirements

Applicants whose first language is not English must have successfully completed a Secure English language Test (SELT) in the last two years. Applicants who have obtained a UK degree in the last three years or who are currently studying for a UK degree may apply without a SELT. However, the university may request a SELT is taken as part of any award made. See .

 

English language IELTS requirements should be 7.0 overall, 7 for writing, and none below 6.0. 

Residential eligibility

Applications from both Home and non-UK resident students can be accepted. There will be a recruitment cap of 30% on non-UK resident studentships awarded across the consortium. The management of this cap will be through the selection process at consortium rather than institutional level. Successful candidates will receive a full stipend and fees at the UKRI rate.

The ESRC guidelines for funding stipulate that if successful, students must live within reasonable access to the institution they are registered at. 

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Funding

UK residents

ESRC through the South Coast DTP provides a tax-free stipend at UKRI rates (£19,237 per year for 2024-25) and covers fees for the duration of the studentship (four years and six months for 1+3.5, and three years and six months for +3.5). 

South Coast DTP PhD students will also have access to a Research Training Support Grant for activities such as carrying out fieldwork within the UK, purchasing essential equipment and attending relevant conferences.

There are also funds available for students to carry out overseas institutional visits and internships. Further details of these can be found on the website.

 

 

Potential supervisors for open call

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Matt supervises PhD students addressing a range of topics including human-animal relations, more-than-human and multispecies methods, Anthropocene studies, the posthumanities, psychology and the climate crisis, climate activism, mental health and distress, social and cultural identity.

He is especially interested in supervising students adopting qualitative and creative methods. Interdisciplinary projects are especially welcome.Ìý

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My supervisory interests encompass a range of topics within primary mathematics pedagogy and the application of policy in the primary classroom. I have a particular interest in social factors influencing the learning of mathematics and issues of equity in mathematics learning particularly relating to the learning experiences of those identified as lower attaining. I am also interested in reserach focusing on school governance and school improvement and research from a critical realist perspective. I am interested in supervision of research which utilisesÌý qualitative and mixed methods approaches as well as that utilisting large quantitative data sets.

Current and recent supervision at Masters and Doctoral level includes collaborative teacher learning in primary schools, the development of fluency in calculation in primary school mathematics, mathematics anxiety in high school students, primary school leadership in response to inspection, values in secondary mathematics education.

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Alison’s supervisory interests include learning, teaching and professional development in schools and higher education, mathematics education pedagogy and learning, including the role of affect and emotions, and intervention approaches to research. She is interested in supervising students with interests related to these areas.

Alison is Course Leader of the Education MA. She supervises students on the PhD, EdD and MA programmes in the UK and the Mauritius Institute of Education.

Doctoral completions:

Stefanie Edwards:ÌýPromoting and sustaining Lesson Study as a form of effective professional learning: an investigation of the practices enacted by teacher, school and system leaders

Shalini Jagambal Ramasawmy: Teacher and learner experiences of translanguaging as pedagogy in a Mauritian grade 7 English language classÌý

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I am interested in supervising doctoral students in all areas related to my research interests in sociological, cultural and geographical analyses of race, ethnicity and popular culture. In particular, my work addresses: theorising race and racism in football, with particular focus on connecting ideas around Empire, de/coloniality, racialised identities and anti-racist resistance; Black British leisure, musical and sonic cultures and spaces; the experiences of British Asians in sport and leisure; and social, cultural and geographical aspects of the contemporary English seaside and coast, especially the connections between race, whiteness, migration and ‘new’ spaces of multiculture;

PhD students currently working with me are undertaking research on: conflicts, protest and resistance around modern Olympic Games; identities and experiences of mixed-race university students; tourism in post-Communist Romania; and Black British contemporary intellectual thought.Ìý

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I am open to various subjects, approaches, and methods.Ìý I am especially interested in projects emerging out of and develop the Anthropology of Sport and that use ethnography as a principle research methodology. Specific areas of interest include the Sport for Development and Peace sector. Projects could have fieldwork anywhere in the world but I am particularly interested in projects in Latin America and the Global South. Other topics of interest and expertise include global labor and transnational migration in sport, the politics of spectacle and performance, and the sensory ecologies of embodiment, being, and becoming through physical activity.

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My research interests and supervisory interests include: Science education, formative assessment, classroom assessment, teacher assessment literacy. Science teaching and learning: including the nervous system, learning about the brain, microscopes in the classroom and moss.Ìý organisms. Science teachers, teacher well-being, teacher recruitment and retention, emotional needs of teachers.

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I am able to supervise doctoral research across the fields of sociology, cultural studies, and politics as they pertain to sport, physical education, fitness, and related fields. However, I am particularly interested in sociological studies of the following specialist topics:

  • Martial arts and combat sports
  • Sport-related violence
  • Risk, injury and medical care in sport
  • Consent in sport
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I am interested in supervising people with an interest in social psychology, crowd behaviour, or collective action. For example I am currently researching the protests calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East conflict & would welcome PG research projects into these and other topical collective action protests.ÌýI am also interested in public intervention in emergencies/mass casualty incidents (a concept known as 'zero-responders') and public behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic, and its implications for emergency planning and response. Therefore, I would be especially interested in supervising emergency responders and other public health professionals who wish to do PG research.Ìý

I am also interested in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and the broader area of collective resilience in response to general adversity. I would be keen to work with health professionals interested in postgraduate research in any of these areas.ÌýÌý

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I am interested in supervising Post Graduate Researchers in events, public space, and identities. I am also keen to support students researching diversity in all its forms, as well as those looking at accessible and sustainable events.

The doctoral project I most recently supervised, examined the application of the circular economy in waste management for toursim beach sites in Ghana.ÌýÌý

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An experienced PhD supervisor, Anne welcomes PhD applications in the field of Human Resource Management, welfare reform and active labour market policies, social security, social rights, decent work and economic growth (Sustainable Development Goal 8). She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches that combine public policy analysis with a socio-legal perspective. She is also keen to supervise PhDs that analyse policy reforms in the Global South (especially Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa).Ìý

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I have supervisory interests in digital health, coproduction of health and social care services, community and social innovation, complex evaluation and social value, fuel poverty and energy justice.Ìý

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I have supervised five PhD students to completion, and I am currently supervising another five PhD students. I have also been looking after the wider community of PhD students for four years (2017-21) when I was the ‘Postgraduate Research Coordinator’ for my school. I therefore understand very well PhD processes, the main milestones of a PhD journey, and the specific professional and personal development needs PhD students have. I offer strong support to my students and love working with them. Students joining the Fatigue and Exercise research lab benefit from peer support with regular meetings to discuss science, bespoke research projects, or recent publications in our field, in addition to the entitled PhD supervision support.

If you are interested in the following areas, do not hesitate to contact me:

  • Exercise intensity domains, anaerobic capacity, and neuromuscular fatigue
  • Perceptions (particularly fatigue and effort) and exercise tolerance / behaviour
  • The interaction between physical training and both perceptual and neuromuscular fatigue
  • Multiple sclerosis, long-covid, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)
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Professor Doyle has supervised doctoral work on creative and visual climate change communication and engagement, media discourses of environment, gender and popular culture, branding and consumption. She would be happy to supervise work on any aspect of:

* climate and environmental communicationÌý

* creative climate communication and engagement

* media, popular culture and environment

* climate activism and social movements

* visual climate and environmental communication

* veganism, popular culture/media and ethics

* intersectional feminist ecological ethics

Completed students, awarded the degree of PhD:

Dr Viktoria Erlacher-Downing (2024). 'Climate change and mental health:Ìýa co-produced, transformative study with young people in Blackpool'. 91¶¶ÒõÌý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý Ìý

Dr Kate Monson (2024). ‘Staying with the muddle: learning to live well on anthropocene island’. 91¶¶Òõ.

Dr Shai Kassirer (2020). ‘Media Analysis of Hydro-Policies for Climate-Resilience in Israel: Depoliticisation of Desalination Discourse (2001-2018)’. 91¶¶Òõ.

Dr Lucy O’Brien (2018). ‘Express Yourself: Reframing women’s participation, agency and power in popular music’. PhD by Publication. 91¶¶Òõ.

Dr Antigoni Themistokleous (2018). ‘Self regulation by the press in Cyprus’. 91¶¶Òõ.

Dr Chloe Peacock (2013). ‘Double Distinction’: An analysis of consumer participation in Apple branding’. 91¶¶Òõ.

Dr Joanna Boehnert (2012). ‘The Visual Communication of Ecological Literacy’. 91¶¶Òõ.

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I amÌýcurrently supervising four PhD students, two of whom areÌýpart of a H2020 Marie Curie Sklodowska Innovative Training Network. I am interested in supervising MRes and doctoral projects relating to (feminist) political ecology, and in particular, projects that relate to social and environmental justice, climate and agrarianÌýresourceÌýextractivism, decolonial thinking andÌýcritical approaches to sustainable development.Ìý

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Francisca will be delighted to supervise students in Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Social Responsibility Communication, Sustainability, Marketing Responsibility, Green Marketing, Inclusive Marketing and Diversity.

Francisca is currently supervising 5 Phd research projects.

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I am interested in supervising postgraduate research students (PhDs and MRes) in the following areas: community led water resource governance; sustainable water futures; elder environmental activism; nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation, degrowth theory in relation to environmental citizenship.

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I would be interested in supervising postgraduate students in the following areas:

- Geographies of sport and leisure- Playful cities and urban everyday life- Community-supported agriculture / community gardening

I also welcome discussions on other potential topics.

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Urban/ Regional Regeneration, (Critical) Event Studies, Qualitative/ Ethnographic Research Methods.Ìý

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Andy is interested to work with applicants seeking to conduct research relating to the professional learning, development and/or well-being of teachers, leaders and other professionals. Specific foci may include but are not restricted to studies of:

  • Mentoring and/or coaching for early career teachers / professionals
  • Mentoring and/or coaching across professions
  • Judgementoring
  • ONSIDE Mentoring
  • Co-mentoring (collaborative, compassionate mentoring and coaching)
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I am happy to supervise projects within my range of expertise which includes health psychology and applied health, medical and health care research in the widest sense. Given my background I tend to focus on quantitative and experimental or interventionist methods. Increasingly i am involved in mixed methods projects with a strong qualitative method. In the past i have supervised projects in the field of diabetes and also forensic mental health.Ìý

My current interests are very much about applying a relationship approach to e.g. long term conditions and the way people live with and adjust to long term conditions or other health challenges. Resilience and stigma in long term conditions is of interest to me, extending my current work on diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Exploring links around adjustment, stigma and the additional challenges due to social and health inequalities is a priority to me. Finally, development of interventions in these fields would be of considerable interest to me.Ìý

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Helen supervises PhD and MD students with an interest in arts-based interventions in healthcare, education and wellbeing, and/or the use of creative, arts-based research methods.Ìý She is interested in talking to doctoral applicants who are interested in researching creativity and the arts, with foci including: art therapy; arts interventions for health and wellbeing, including invisible chronic and contested conditions; social prescribing; creativity and the lived experience of dementia; arts education; spoken word and poetry slam; art worlds/communities; arts inclusivity; everyday creativity; and the artistic process. Ìý She is also interested in supervising students who wish to work with creative, arts-based and/or participatory methods, including: poetic inquiry; autoethnography; photo voice; photo elicitation; collaborative poetics; and participatory action research.Ìý Helen currently supervises four doctoral candidates, who are researching: the lived experiences of women with borderline personality disorder (including creative coping strategies); neurologic music therapy with young people with juvenile dementia; black people's experiences of intimacy and psychosis; and decolonial praxis in museum learning.Ìý She has previously supervised and examined work covering topics that include: perceptions of frailty in the undergraduate medical curriculum; the impact of austerity policies on homeless people; spoken word with young offenders in a Macedonian prison; the performance and perception of authenticity in contemporary UK spoken word poetry; and NHS staff experiences of work.Ìý

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  • Sustainablity in Hospitality, Tourism and Events
  • Marketing Hospitality, Tourism and Events
  • Service quality and development in Hospitality, Tourism and Events

I am interested in supervising PhD students interested in sustainability related to tourism, marketing, and corporate social responsibility. I am also interested in those wanting to research behaviour change, especially related to the environmental crisis. Recently completed research and publications include those concerning behaviour change and travel demand management, destination planning and management and information overload on the internet. I specifically welcome projects that adopt innovative qualitative methodological approaches to creating new knowledge.

I am supervising students researching tourism and the circular economy, monitoring and evaluation of tourism development, art and the tourism economy and behaviour change as a result of environmental exposureÌý

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I am not in a position to take on any new doctoral students at the moment. ÌýI currently supervise in areas including the following:

  • Addressing disadvantage in education
  • (Post)digital technologies & education.
  • Vulnerability and wellbeing
  • Leadership and school improvement
  • Learner voice and dialogic learning
  • Challenging school readiness.
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I welcome the opportunity to supervise PhD students with an interest in the areas of tourism and wellbeing, place and wellbeing, sustainability, nature-based tourism, coastal tourism, blue spaces, water and wellbeing, rural tourism, cultural/heritage tourism, national parks and biospheres.

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My research and supervisory interests cover Sport and Exercise Psychology, with particular focus on cultural sport psychology (immigrated athletes and coaches, culturally diverse sport teams, acculturation and adaptation in a new environment), as well as athletes' well-being (safeguarding, coach-athlete relationship). I currently lead an international research project on behalf of FEPSAC, which investigates career trajectories of sport psychology graduates in Europe.

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I am interested in supervising doctoral students in classed inequalities, urban sociology, social housing and ethnographic methodologies.

I am currently supervising the following projects:

Social and cultural exclusion through seaside gentrification on the south coast Bethan Prosser

Precarious practices and policies in the divided ‘smart city’ Matthew Smith

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Within the broad context of space, place and culture I am fascinated by the embodied and performative dynamics of human experience and behaviour. ÌýUnderpinned by a longstanding interest and intellectual engagement with the materiality of space, my focus encompasses the material, virtual and simulated spaces associated with everyday life. For example, the sea and the coast, cruise ships, popular film, photography, art, tourism and leisure.Ìý I am interested in how people engage with, imagine and experience such landscapes and spaces. Ìý

My interest in cruise ships as bounded and transient spaces for work and leisure, framed by a maritime heritage encompassing film, dress, rituals of the sea, architecture of the ship, dates back to my time living and working at sea. My intellectual and practical experience of cruise ships directly influenced my PhD research exploring the constructed discourses of cruise travel through an analysis of popular film (Ship of Fools, Carry on Cruising, Titanic).Ìý ÌýResearch that uncovered the multisensory nature of film and how the liminal realm of film space is experienced in and through the imagination, memory and emotion.

My interest in maritime heritage and histories of the sea / coastal cultures also encompasses how the visual and material world create new narratives of meaning. Narratives that work to shape individual and collective identities alongside particular experiences and encounters with the ocean and liminal environments where land and water meet. I continue to be fascinated by the power of discourse generally, and specifically the critical discourse highlighting the consequential socio-cultural impacts of cruise ships and their associated activities on coastal regions and destinations.

Supervisory interests

I welcome enquiries for research underpinned by qualitative approaches and methods generally and specifically those associated with visual methodologies and methods. I am keen to encourage applications focusing on projects that align with me areas of interest, broadly focused in relation to:Ìý

The visual and visuality

Space, place and materiality

The coast / sea / seascapes

Embodiment and the senses

Heritage / Maritime heritage

Cruise ships and cruise liners

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I am interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas: critical race theory, de/post-colonial studies, feminist activism, sexualities, trans studies, political philosophy, history of ontology.

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I welcome students' research projects in the following areas: Consumer psychology and behaviour; Customer relationship marketing;ÌýMarketing for families; Gender and sexuality in marketing

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I'm interested in supervising postgrad projects in (but not limited to) the following areas: sexual politics outside the metropolis; social and cultural geographies of fat men; Participatory Action Research with LGBTQ communities; and Bear subcultures and spaces.

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I am interested in supervising doctoral students on a range of topics including transport and mobilities, urban sociology, visual sociology and gender and generation. In addition, I welcome proposals from students seeking to adopt creative and inventive methodologies and methods. I am currently supervising projects on: lived experiences of the anthropocene; urban place-attachment across generations;Ìýsequential art in architectural practice;Ìýurban pocket parks; generation and automobility futures; and the wellbeing of refugee children.

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I am interested in supervising doctoral research in the areas of outer space studies, environmental sociology, human-animal studies, and social movement studies, as well as work more broadly situated within psychosocial studies.

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I am working with PhD and EdD students within the field of Early Years and I welcome enquiries from prospective candidates who are interested in my specific areas of specialism which include:

  • 'Professional Love'
  • Infants, toddlers & children under 3 years of age
  • Attachment based relationships - ÌýLove, Care and Intimacy
  • Theory, policy and practices with infants and toddlers
  • Quality and learning/ policy, practice and pedagogy
  • The Rights of babies and young children
  • Professional adult roles – e.g primary caregiving/key person approach
  • Parent roles

I have supervised ten students to successful completion of their doctorates and examined 17 full doctoral theses.

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Raphael is interested in receiving proposals for doctoral studies across politics, sociology and criminology. His areas of expertise include critical approaches to protest and social movements; criminal justice and social policy; migration and citizenship; policing and security; nationalism and the far right; critical and democratic theory; and public inquiries.

For current funding opportunities see: http://www.southcoastdtp.ac.uk/apply/

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I am interested in supervising PhD candidates in a number of public health and health promotion areas. My current research (see profile) includes a global project on health services during CV-19, European research on syphilis, substance (mis)use, and LGBTI inequalities taking an international perspective. PhD candidates are welcome to contact me to develop PhD projects around these areas, but also any of the below:

  • Sexual health (including HIV and other STIs) and sexual orientation
  • Access to health and social care services for ‘vulnerable’ populations
  • Healthy public policy and health inequalities
  • Mental health
  • Parenthood (including fathers supporting breastfeeding)
  • Young people
  • LGBT lives
  • Tackling stigma and discrimination
  • Gender identities (masculinities and femininities)
  • Peer group cultures
  • Sexual assault/gender based violence/intimate partner violence

I also supervise candidates for PhD by publication and welcome applications/enquiries

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I supervise PhD students on a variety of topics that focus on the psychological side of migration. I welcome proposals from students who want to investigate well-being or mental health of migrants, refugees, or international students. Within that topic, I am particularly interested in the role of social relationships and/or the role of digital technology in wellbeing and mental health. I also accept projects looking into British people's attitudes towards migration: i.e., what are predictors of negative and positive attitudes and behaviours towards migration, and what can we do to improve these attitudes and/or support for migrants?

Examples of PhD projects under my supervision:

  • Exploring resilience of international students from a social policy perspective (Isaac Thornton).
  • Exploring the role of digital and print resources in English language and literacy acquisition in relation to wellbeing of refugee children (Liliane Broschart).
  • The impact of digitalisation on public and third sector services supporting people for whom English is an additional language (Sidney Lupupa Mushinge).
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I am interested in supervising PhDs in social policy, and health policy in particular. A possible PhD project concerns attitudes towards NHS privatisation. Further areas I am interested in supervising include: inequalities in health, local government public health policy, empowerment and public control over the determinants of health, public access to information, public health leadership, policy on climate change and workplace health.

Jane is supervising PhD researchers, including:

practitioners' conceptions of 'holism' and midwifes' attitudes and practice concerning contraceptive advice.Ìý

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My research interests lie in the history of Town Planning, particularly the impetus for establishment of the Garden City movement, National Parks, the emergence of community engagement in the planning of places.Ìý Other interests are the theoretical and political influences on the planning process, including regional government (and its demise).Ìý The historical development of urban areas, their design; history of architecture and urban form.

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Happy to supervise field, questionnaire, and desk-based projects. Passionate about avian ecology and conservation science, human-nature interactions, urban ecology, and patterns and drivers of extinction risk.Ìý

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I am currently supervising two doctoral candidates. One project focuses on Soft Power and the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The other examines resistance to the hosting of Mega Events such as the Olympics. I am interested in supervising doctoral students in areas relating to sociological, cultural, and political aspects of international festivals, events, and spectacles. My particular focus is arts and cultural events for example Burning Man, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and global touring productions, such as U2's 360 tour. I am also interested in supervising PhD projects in the following areas relating to leisure events:

  • fandom and fan communities
  • community and cultural identity
  • space and place
  • production, consumption, and co-creation of leisure spectacles.
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I supervise research students exploring human-computer interaction and applied artificial intelligence topics in education, cultural heritage and public engagement.

I am particularly interested in research-through-design [1] projects generating new knowledge through the iterative, user-centred development and evaluation of design prototypes.

For past work and specific research interests please refer to my project pages.Ìý

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[1] Stappers, P. J., & Giaccardi, E. (2017). Research through design. In The encyclopedia of human-computer interaction (pp. 1-94). The Interaction Design Foundation.Ìý

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I currently supervise in the areas of radical democratic theory; the ethics and politics of care; populism; the politics of property; post-Marxism; poststructuralist thought; queer theory and sexualities; and social policy (housing, welfare, wellbeing, work), but will consider applications across any area of my work. Successful applicants join CAPPE's thriving Critical Theory research community and benefit from our international exchange programme and research network with Johns Hopkins; Berkeley, UoC; NUI Galway; PoliTesse/Arendt Centre, Verona; University of Buenos Aires; University of Recife; and UNAM. Current competitive funding opportunities are available through 91¶¶Òõ; AHRC ; ESRCÌý and Future Societies.

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Supervision support can be provided to PhD students who are interested in queer theory, poststructuralism, the application of critical social theory, new materialism, intersectionality and feminist theory in health-related research. Focus areas include LGBTQ+ health and healthcare, health inequalities, resilience, trans health and mental health promotion with the aim to achieve greater health equity. PhD students she has supervised to completion have worked on studies employing critical social theories, new materialism and qualitative creative methods. She has examined PhD/Professional Doctorate studies at universities in the UK and further afield. Ìý

Current PhD studentsÌý

  • Sacha Mead, Aile Trumm; Sebastian Beaumont, Elisavet Anastasiadi and Mike Phillips.Ìý

Former PhD students (PhD completions)

  • Esther Omotola Ayoola, Amy Middleton, H Howitt, Kim Brown, Tracey Harding, Adam Kincel, Jens Schneider.

How to apply

Before you apply

Applicants must submit two applications as follows:

  1. An institutional (91¶¶Òõ) research degree application (deadline 06 January 2025).

  2. A consortium (South Coast DTP) funding application (deadline 17 January 2025). 

The 91¶¶Òõ will contact strong applicants after the 06 January deadline to support them in their SCDTP funding application.

Please make sure that you meet the entry requirements before making your application, and have read all of our advice about writing your research proposal and making an application. 

Finding a supervisor for the open call

Applicants are required to identify potential supervisors from our social science Centres of Research and Excellence (COREs) and Research and Enterprise Groups (REGs) in the first instance (see Key Facts above for links). A number of potential supervisors are also featured on this webpage. 

Applicants from UK Black or Asian Minority Ethnic communities

As part of the SCDTP’s strategy for wider participation and greater equality, diversity and inclusion, two studentships per year will be awarded to UK applicants from Black or Asian Minority Ethnic communities.

Research proposal 

Open call applications 

Applicants are required to work with a potential supervisor on a research proposal. Speculative applications will not be accepted. You should name your potential supervisor in your application and submit a research proposal. Please see our guidance on writing a research proposal. A full research proposal (around 1500 words) should include:

  • a description of your proposed research topic including the questions or hypotheses to be addressed

  • the methods to be used and sources to be consulted

  • a brief timetable covering the period of study (including details of field work)

  • any ethical issues related to your research project

If you have already begun your doctoral study, please remember to refer to the research you have undertaken to date.

In your SCDTP funding appplication, you will be asked to identify your proposed project's disciplinary pathway (see Key Facts above) and primary . Your proposed supervisor will be able to advise. 

Apply online 

1. 91¶¶Òõ application

To complete the University of Brighon application you'll need to upload the following:

  • copies of your bachelors and masters certificates (if applicable), including transcripts

  • copy of your IELTS (or equivalent) certificate (if applicable)

  • copy of your passport

  • two references uploaded or requested – one must be an academic reference from your most recent period of study, both must have been written within the last year

  • copy of your research proposal

To begin your UoB application, complete the following steps.

  1. Click on the ‘apply online now’ button on the right.

  2. Select 'create a new account' to register and start a new application.

  3. Once you are logged on, select 'apply to a new course'.

  4. Select the type of course 'research degree'.

  5. Select mode of study 'full-time' or 'part-time'.

  6. Select 'Doctoral College'.

  7. Select the course 'South Coast DTP (ESRC)' (full-time or part-time).

  8. Click 'apply'.

You will now be able to complete the online 91¶¶Òõ application form. Once submitted, you should also complete the South Coast DTP funding application (see below). You do not need to wait for a response from UoB before submitting the SCDTP funding application. 

2. South Coast DTP funding application

To begin your South Coast DTP funding application, you will need to:

  • Register to complete

The SCDTP form asks you to submit information you will have already submited as part of your UoB application. Please ensure you do this. You will also be asked to provide additional details including:

  • Your student ID (as allocated on your UoB application)

  • Your proposed project's disciplinary pathway

  • Your proposed project's primary thematic cluster

  • Details of the modules in your masters (if applicable)


Contact us

If you have any questions about these studentships, your research proposal or application, contact the Doctoral College at DoctoralCollege@brighton.ac.uk and we will be happy to help.

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