All applicants interested in applying to the listed Supervisor-Led Studentships must submit their application using our application portal, SGSSS Apply.
Before starting your application, you will be asked to create a profile by answering our Eligibility Questionnaire, please review this guidance on the questionnaire when creating your account.
Application Process:
Shortlisting and Interviews:
The deadline for all applications is 4pm (BST) on 19th April. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.
No, you will not be submitting a proposal as part of this application.
You may be asked, however, to provide additional information as part of your application. Please refer the specific PhD studentship opportunity you are applying for these details.
Yes, you may apply to more than one opportunity.
To do so, you must submit a separate application to each one.
Where possible your references should include an academic familiar with your work (form within the lat 5 years). Both references can be from academics but you may include a work reference, especially if you have been out of academia for more than 5 years.
Please review the FAQs for references, using this link.
If you submitted a complete application (with 2 references) to at least one of our projects (due 19 April 2024), please review the shortlisting and interviews dates.
Please note, these may change. Due to the high volume of applications, not all supervisory teams may be able to provide feedback on your application if you are not shortlisted or unsuccessful, post-interview.
First Supervisor |
Project Title |
Interview Shortlisting Date | Interview Date | |
Dr Tom Clemens | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
A longitudinal study of changes in tobacco and alcohol retail availability and maternal health behaviours and birth outcomes |
26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
Professor Katie Boyle | katie.boyle@strath.ac.uk | Addressing systemic and clustered injustice in the realisation of the right to independent living in Scotland | 24-Apr-24 | 10-May-24 |
Dr Fernando Fernandes | f.l.fernandes@dundee.ac.uk | An analysis of power and complexity within community development through the lens of Hot Chocolate Trust: how youth and community workers work with the expertise of communities in striving to impact on social inequalities. | 26-Apr-24 | 9 or 10 May 2024 |
Dr Fadhila Mazanderani | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
Care and Complaint: Exploring Changing Technologies of Feedback and Complaint in the Scottish NHS | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
Professor Deirdre Shaw | deirdre.shaw@glasgow.ac.uk | Diet Transition: Understanding the Effectiveness of Community Organisations in Supporting Change | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
Dr Francesca Fiori | francesca.fiori@strath.ac.uk | Housing injustice and children’s outcomes: how does growing up in rented accommodation affect children’s health, wellbeing and cognitive development? | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
Dr Kim McKee | kim.mckee@stir.ac.uk | Housing precarity in the Scottish private rented sector: disabled peoples’, their families, and carers’ experiences of private renting | 01-May-24 | 16-May-24 |
Dr Amy Irwin | a.irwin@abdn.ac.uk | Is double checking twice as safe? Investigating the efficacy of peer-checking in the nuclear industry. | 29-Apr-24 | 06-May-24 |
Dr Zoe Russell | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
Just and Sustainable Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Behaviour Change in the Cairngorms National Park | 22-Apr-24 | 06-May-24 |
Dr Sharada Davidson | sharada.n.davidson@strath.ac.uk | Missing but not Forgotten: Modelling New Developments in the Global Economy Using Data with Missing Values | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
Dr Anastasia Klimovich-Gray | anastasia.klimovich-gray@abdn.ac.uk | Neuro-cognitive mechanisms of goal-oriented reading | 22-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
Dr Matthew Thomas | matthew.thomas@glasgow.ac.uk | Podcasts as Pedagogy: Where art, entertainment, and education converge on sustainability and climate change | 29-Apr-24 | 07-May-24 |
Dr Megan Crawford | megan.crawford@strath.ac.uk | Providing access to digital sleep interventions through public libraries | 30-Apr-24 | 08-May-24 |
Professor Frank Pollick | frank.pollick@glasgow.ac.uk | Social Touch in Human-Robot Physical Interactions | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
Dr Juliane Kloess | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
The development of a risk assessment tool for under 18-year-olds who display harmful sexual behaviour, both offline and online | 26-Apr-24 | 07-May-24 |
Professor Simon Halliday | simon.halliday@strath.ac.uk | Time, Public Perceptions of Procedural Fairness, and Legal Theory | 23-Apr-24 | 10-May-24 |
Dr Fiona Crawford | fiona.crawford.2@glasgow.ac.uk | Transport justice and sustainability implications of requirements and benefits in job advertisements | 25-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
Dr Ben Matthews | ben.matthews@stir.ac.uk | Understanding the health and wellbeing of people involved with community justice in Scotland | 30-Apr-24 | w/c 13 May 2024 |
Professor Ailsa Henderson | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
Understanding the Multi-level Voter: Evidence from the Scottish Election Study | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
Dr Elke Heins | pgawards@ed.ac.uk |
Varieties of CIAG: Tailoring careers services to adult users with diverse needs | 26-Apr-24 | 03-May-24 |
Dr Penny Woolnough | p.woolnough@abertay.ac.uk | When an adult with learning disability goes missing: a mixed methods study to inform prevention and response | 01-May-24 | 14-May-24 |
Dr Despina Alexiadou | despina.alexiadou@strath.ac.uk | Why so few working-class women? A comparative case of British and Scottish Elections | 01-May-24 | 09-May-24 |
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