Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time
This masters degree combines core modules in research approaches and methods with options modules from the subject specialisms, education, childhood and youth and social work.
Our MA Social Research degree is accredited by the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC’s) White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership. Applicants are therefore eligible to apply for 1+3.5 studentships to fund their MA and subsequent PhD. +3.75 integrated PGCert/PhD studentships are also available (see wrdtp.ac.uk for details). After completion of the course, students will also be eligible to apply for ESRC +3.5 awards to fund a PhD, through any of the ESRC’s 14 Doctoral Training Partnerships across the UK.
It’s designed for anyone who’d like to pursue a career in research, whether you’re hoping to go on to PhD study, work as a social researcher in the public or private sector or are on a career break and interested in exploring social research.
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The course is ideal preparation for PhD study, as a route to a research career, either in academia or in other sectors such as government or research consultancies. Alternatively, the course equips students for entry level positions requiring social research skills, in the public, private or third sectors.
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