PhD Studentships
PhD studentships in Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law at the University of Aberdeen
The Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL) offers a number of inter-disciplinary 3-year PhD studentships each year. The studentships will include full fees (UK/Europe or overseas) and may include partial maintenance. We welcome applicants from anthropology, cultural and literary studies, history, legal theory and socio-legal studies, philosophy, politics, religious studies, sociology and theology.
Note that applicants must hold or be close to completing a postgraduate Masters degree in a relevant field.
The deadline for full consideration of applications for the 2012-13 studentships is 15 April 2012.
Our criteria for selection will be:
1. Quality of application
2. Closeness of fit to the Centre's Mission Statement (available on website)
3. Closeness of fit to one or more of our PhD supervisors (see list of People on website)
Please apply at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/prospectus/pgrad/
In Section 2 of your application form please make sure you do the following:
1. Under Programme, you can either:
a. select Doctor of Philosophy in your preferred discipline, e.g. Anthropology, Politics, History...
b. or select Doctor of Philosophy in Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law
2. Under Intended Source of Funding:
a. if you have printed out the form, write "Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law studentships"
b. if you are applying online, select "Univ of Abedeen Waiver or Scholarship" and then write "Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law studentship" in the research title box under For Research Students Only.
3. Under Prospective Supervisor (if known) you could write the name of the Centre member or members whose interests are closest to yours (see list of People on the CISRUL website) or otherwise just leave it blank.
4. Write "Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law studentship" in the box for research title, followed by the title of your proposed project (maximum 240 characters).
In Sections 12 and 13:
1. Make sure you give us as much information as possible in your Personal Statement (Section 12).
2. In Section 13, you must upload evidence of your degree certificate, transcript, two letters of reference, and proof of English proficiency if you are not a native speaker.
Then email to pgadmissions@abdn.ac.uk (as a Word or PDF file) a full, clear account of your proposed research. Remember we will consider how closely your research proposal fits with our Mission Statement (available on CISRUL website). Give your application reference and your name in the email, and state that you are applying for a PhD studentship from the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law.
For full consideration you must submit your application by Friday 13 April although we may give some consideration to late applications.
You are encouraged to apply at the same time for College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) PhD studentships. Further information about CASS postgraduate study is available at http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/graduate/
If you have any questions please email Emily Gardner (emily.gardner@abdn.ac.uk) in the first instance.