School of Social Sciences - Institute for Social Change (New Media/Political Change) ESRC Studentship

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Type of award

Studentship

Managing department

  • School of Social Sciences

Value

Full-timeUK/EU fees of £3,500 for 2010/2011, plus a maintenance bursary of £13,290 per annum and a research training grant of £750 per annum.

Note: EU students who do not satisfy the ESRC residency criteria will only be awareded the fee payment and research training grant.

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Specified use

Research in new media technologies on citizen participation and election campaigning.  In particular we are looking for proposals that are comparative in nature that will examine how political and social context shapes and mediates the effects of developments in communication technology upon society.

We are also interested in work that will be methodologically innovative in using new web-based methods for conducting online research, as well as more standard techniques of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. 

Tenable period

Three years

Continuation of award

Continuation of the award is subject to satisfactory progress.

Number available

One

Fund provider

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