PhD Scholarships in Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Aberdeen, UK (2015-2016)

CISRUL is building a vigorous community of PhD students who work closely with the academic staff and play an important role in all our activities. PhD studies can often be a lonely experience and PhD student often find themselves working in splendid isolation; this is not the case at CISRUL, where we give great importance to including PhD students in our many events, both for their benefit and our own.

We offer our own inter-disciplinary PhD programme in Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law. This is perfectly suited to students whose interests cross more than one discipline, and who are worried about being told that their PhD project does not fit with the strictures of a single discipline.

However, you are equally welcome to apply for CISRUL funding if you are interested in our topics but decide to enrol for a PhD in law, politics, anthropology, education, history, sociology, philosophy or theology. Several of our current PhD students are enrolled in one of these disciplines and are supervised (or co-supervised) by CISRUL members in that discipline.

Our CISRUL studentships will include full UK/Europe fees and partial maintenance. Overseas students are welcome to apply and would receive the same partial maintenance, but it’s possible they may need to pay the difference between UK/Europe and overseas fees (the difference is around GBP7100 per year).

Under Programme Details:
1. You may select the PhD programme in Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law if you wish to pursue inter-disciplinary study.
2. If you wish to apply for a PhD programme in Law, History, Anthropology, Education, Sociology, Philosophy or Theology, that is fine but please indicate under Funding that you are applying for a University of Aberdeen CISRUL studentship. To make sure your application finds its way to CISRUL, you should also email our secretary Lisa Baxter (l.baxter@abdn.ac.uk) to let her know you have submitted it.

Further details:
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