ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Centre
The School has been awarded two ESRC studentships in the new Language-Based Area Studies pathway of the Wales Doctoral Training Centre.
Two awards of fees & stipend are available. Home/EU students are eligible for the awards - full awards (fees plus maintenance stipend) are open to UK Nationals, and EU students who can satisfy UK residency requirements. EU students who can not satisfy residency requirements will be eligible for a fees only award. You must complete an application form, submitting this along with 2 references and your academic transcripts, to apply. The normal requirement for admission to Research programmes in the School will apply.
The first studentship will be in the field of Franco-German Relations. Though the Franco-German relationship is the principal bilateral relationship within the European Union, its importance has been consistently underplayed both in academic studies and in appraisals of UK leverage in EU bargaining. Bids for the proposed studentship are invited to address one of the following themes: the history of Franco-German bilateralism; Franco-German bilateralism within EU institutions; comparative policy analysis in fields of Franco-German bargaining (for example defence, foreign policy, economic and monetary union, and agriculture), the institutionalisation of the Franco-German relationship in the fields of culture, language, and youth and educational exchanges.
The second studentship will be in the field of North-East-Central Europe. Bids are welcome that focus on any individual northern, central or eastern European state or cluster of states, especially when this focus promotes language acquisition in Polish or other ECE languages. The studentship will likely be focussed in one of the following areas: the relationship of Euro Area ‘outsiders’ like Denmark, Sweden, several East Central European states, and two of the Baltic States with an emerging core monetary Europe; the ‘Weimar Triangle’ of Germany, France and Poland; Russia, Germany and North-East-Central Europe; Comparative policy analysis in energy, foreign policy, monetary policy, education, agriculture or other relevant fields.
These bids engage with the overarching emerging theme of the developmental Language-Based Area Studies pathway of the DTC: the centrality of forms of bilateralism in the broader context of regional integration (Europe and Asia). The supervisory team will be Alistair Cole, AcSS (vice-chair of ESRC panel B, including Area Studies) and Kenneth Dyson, FBA (head of the European Studies RAE panel in 1996 and 2001).
Timetable
- 15 April 2012 – the full application and referee report, along with supporting documents, must be submitted to the School contact.
- w/c 23 April 2012 – applicants may be invited to interview during this time.
- 3 May 2012 – School to confirm selected candidates to ESRC. Late May 2012 – Applicants are informed of the outcome.
Application forms
Guidance on Writing Research Proposal for ESRC Studentships
ESRC Studentship Application Form
ESRC Studentships Referee Report Form