School of Social Sciences PhD Studentships 2025 Entry

• Tuition fees
• An annual maintenance stipend (£19,237 per annum for 2024/25)
• A research training support grant

+3.5 - covering a full postgraduate research programme

Please note that existing postgraduate research students and applicants for distance learning PhD programmes cannot be considered for this funding.

3.5 years full-time or 7 years part-time.

A number of awards are available on a competitive basis.

• Bachelor's (Honours) degree in a cognate subject at 2:1 or above (or overseas equivalent); and
• Master's degree in a relevant subject - with an overall average of 65% or above, a minimum mark of 65% in your dissertation and no mark below 55% (or overseas equivalent)

You must submit your online application for a place on your chosen Postgraduate Research programme by the relevant programme deadline (detailed below). Your programme application should contain all necessary supporting documents.

Section 9 of the application asks for your funding intentions. In this section, you should detail fully all the competitions in which you would like to be considered. There is no limit to the number of competitions you may enter, but all must be detailed in your online application form to ensure you are included. Please add a funding source, and populate the fields as below:

• Type of Funding: Uni of Manchester Scheme
• Awarding Body (free text): SoSS School Studentships
• Status of Funding: Intend to Apply

Please note that there is no separate funding application form for School of Social Sciences Studentships. All decisions are based on the online programme application and supporting documents.

Your full online application must include;

• A 1,500 word  PhD research proposal. Please state the word count on page 1 of the document.
• A copy of your Bachelor's and Master's academic transcript and certificate. If your Master's degree is pending, please provide an interim transcript.
• An up-to-date academic CV summarising your academic record, employment history, publications and highlighting experience demonstrating your research potential.
• The names of two academic referees, including one from your most recent institution. Your referees will be contacted directly via the Referee Portal following the submission of your application form.
• A certificate or evidence demonstrating your English language ability and proficiency.

• Academic merit and preparedness for research
• Quality and feasibility of research proposal
• Consideration of ethical responsibility

School of Social Sciences Postgraduate Research Committee (PGRC)

Your complete online application for your preferred PhD programme must be submitted by the dates below:

• Criminology: 1 December 2024
• Law: 1 December 2024
• Politics: 1 December 2024
• Social Anthropology: 1 December 2024
• Social Statistics: 1 December 2024
• Sociology: 1 December 2024
• Philosophy: applications for September 2025 entry onto PhD Philosophy will be accepted until 30 June 2025. All Philosophy applications will be considered for School of Social Sciences PhD Studentships, however, we reserve the right to close the competition at any stage if all awards have been allocated, so we recommend that you apply as early as possible.

Please note that the given deadlines are strict and late or incomplete applications will not be included in the competition.

We expect to communicate the outcome to applicants by June 2025.

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide feedback on individual applications, as outcomes are determined by independent panels.

Offers of funding are not deferrable. If you cannot start your programme by the date mentioned in your studentship offer letter, the award will be withdrawn. You are permitted to re-apply in future.