ESRC NINE DTP
We enjoy continuing high levels of ESRC funding success through four pathways within the school: Human Geography, Sociology and Children, Youth & Families and Conflict, Security & Justice.
The Human Geography training pathway is offered at Newcastle University via the School of Geography, Politics & Sociology.
Students following the Human Geography pathway engage with research which is conceptually rooted, theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous. Our research has research-user impacts, and we have significant global academic impact as well.
Opportunities exist for PhD research training and to conduct research across a wide range of human geography fields, including political, economic, social and cultural geography.
Students applying to this pathway on a 1+3 basis receive Masters-level research training via the MA Human Geography (Research) or the MA Local and Regional Development (Research). These programmes combine core geography or local and regional development-specific research training with more generic training in research skills, methodologies and theories. Students awarded 1+3 funding can then proceed to their PhD here at Newcastle in Geography.
Students already holding a recognised geography research training qualification at MA level, and those with some Masters-level research training, are eligible to apply for funding on a +3 or +3.5 basis. For these applicants, further research training is available and is undertaken in conjunction with their primary research on their PhD topic.
Pathway contact – Dr Anoop Nayak
The Sociology training pathway is offered at Newcastle University via the School of Geography, Politics & Sociology.
Students in the Sociology pathway engage with research which is theoretically innovative and empirically rigorous. Opportunities exist for PhD research training and to conduct research across a range of fields in sociology. You can get a sense of our key research interests by exploring the work of our three research clusters: Imagining Pasts and Futures; Identities, Embodiments and Selves; and Power, Inequality and Citizenship, as well as looking at the work of the Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences research centre.
Students applying to this pathway on a 1+3 basis receive Masters-level research training via the MA Sociology and Social Research. This programme combines provision of advanced-level grounding in key sociological theories, perspectives and concepts with the opportunity to engage in more generic training in research skills, methodologies and theories provided by the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences faculty. Students awarded 1+3 funding can then proceed to their PhD here in Sociology.
Students already holding a recognised sociology research training qualification at MA level, and those with some Masters-level research training, are eligible to apply for funding on a +3 or +3.5 basis. For these applicants, further research training is available and is undertaken in conjunction with their primary research on their PhD topic.
Find out more about our research community, expertise and facilities here – or look at the individual profiles of potential academic supervisors in Sociology.
Pathway contact – Dr Ruth Graham
The Children, Youth and Families pathway of NINEDTP is available to prospective students through the school of Geography, Politics and Sociology (GPS).
The pathway is open across four of the NINEDTP institutions:
- Newcastle
- Durham
- Teesside
- Queen’s University Belfast
Choosing to base your studies with us at Newcastle in the school of GPS however will give you access to specialist research expertise from our staff in the following areas:
Specialisms within our human geography staff include: participatory and collaborative research with children and youth; geographies of religion, faith and spirituality among young people; cooperative living and family life; ethnographies and infranstructures of everyday life; marriage, ender and family; masculinities and gender-based violence; geographies of gender and generation; health and inequalities; children, young people and critical geopolitics; domestic divisions of labour
Specialisms within our politics staff include: political representations in children’s literature; social movements and adolescent gender roles; social capital and political representation
Specialisms within our sociology staff include: identities, embodiments and selves; imagining pasts and futures; power, inequalities and citizenship; young people, everyday life and friendships; childhood disability; medicine, community and family
Prospective PhD applications should not be limited to the topics listed above and interdisciplinary and inter – as well as intra – institutional applications are also encouraged.
Current director of the Children, Youth and Families pathway is Dr Sarah Winkler-Reid, Sarah is happy to speak with potential candidates and to help facilitate student/supervisory connections.
The Conflict, Security and Justice thematic pathway is offered at Newcastle University through four key disciplines; Environmental Planning, Human Geography, Law and Sociology. It is a collaborative pathway which offers students the opportunity to pursue cutting-edge interdisciplinary research supported by scholars working across a range of areas. Within these subject areas we have particular strengths in geopolitics, military, war and security related research, as well as in human rights and social justice scholarship. The establishment of secure, peaceful, and just societies requires insight and innovation from all disciplines, and as an inter-disciplinary pathway, Conflict, Security and Justice provides crucial opportunities to support and encourage cross-cutting research that addresses global challenges in novel ways.
The Conflict, Security and Justice pathway offers funding for 1+3 (MA + PhD), +3.5 (PhD with additional research training, or required language training) and +3 (PhD). Students will be based in Newcastle but may have additional supervisors based in Durham or one of the two Belfast universities within the partnership.
A list of potential supervisors at Newcastle can be found by following the links to the four subject areas;
Pathway contact – Dr Ingrid Medby
The NINE DTP studentship competition for entry 2023 is now closed. Details of the entry 2024 competition will be released in Autumn 2023
Full details of eligibility criteria can be found on the NINE DTP website.
Contact: PGR secretary Jenny Dawley via gps.pgr@ncl.ac.uk