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The UK Research and Innovation website names the DSA contacts at each of the UK Research Councils. If you have a disability, mental health problem or specific learning difficulty and are not being funding be a UK Research Council, you may still be able to access some funding for additional study-related costs from Student Support and Wellbeing.
Research degrees PhD; Practice-based PhD; Research degrees. We are one of the leading Education departments in the UK, with an excellent reputation for research and teaching. We are active in a wide range of research projects across our research interests, and in recent years we have been successful in obtaining research funds from a variety of local, national and international funding bodies.
The studentships are named in honour of Professor Magdalen Vernon (1901-1991) who was the first female Head of the then Department of Psychology at Reading. Applications are especially welcomed from female applicants. We also welcome applications for part-time and flexible working.
The male to female ratio is at 47% to 53%. We have 4 self-elected student reps and they discuss PhD students’ comments and issues with the PGR director regularly. There are dedicated, high spec PhD areas in the Business School with all the equipment you need for your studies.
Students spend at least three months of the PhD working in-situ at the co-operating body which makes a financial contribution to both the student and the project. Students often find these to be good avenues for finding full-time work at the end of their placement, and will have gained valuable hands-on work experience. There are also CASE-Plus studentships where students spend a further year.
PhD: a research project undertaken across three years (full-time, plus a writing up period), culminating in an 80,000 word thesis.As well as having the option to audit taught units, there may be the potential for PhD students to teach units themselves from their second year of study onwards.
The international PhD student journey:. experience as an Arab female studying in the UK offers insights into the cultural implications which can very well lend some commonality of experiences. Key issues in the literature informed this research included supervisory role in education, international students, cultural differences, culture shock, PhD students’ experiences and autoethnography.