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Welcome to SGSSS
Home of Scotland’s ESRC DTP
The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is the UK's largest facilitator of funding, training and support for doctoral students in social science. By combining the expertise of sixteen universities across Scotland, the school facilitates world-class PhD research. The school is funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Scottish Funding Council.
OUR FUNDERS
SGSSS is funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Scottish Funding Council.
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Our Governance
SGSSS is governed and managed via inter-institutional partnerships, which fosters collaboration and co-operation across its partner institutions. The formal governance structure is comprised of the Directorate, Supervisory Board, and Student Representatives.
Training
The SGSSS is committed to providing high quality advanced training in research methods and transferable skills to postgraduate students.
Studentships
SGSSS awards ESRC-funded PhD studentships through a number of annual competitions. There are opportunities for both students and supervisors to apply for funding.
Internships
The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science runs a professional internship scheme for PhD students at Scotland’s universities in their second and third years of study
Knowledge Exchange
Supporting our PhD students and early career researchers to engage with non-academic partners to create impactful research.
Events
Keep up to date with all of the events that SGSSS have planned for the future
News
Open Letter to Students Regarding SGSSS response to Covid-19
Dear SGSSS students Like everyone, the SGSSS team has for the last two months found ourselves frantically trying to adapt to new ways of working,
Research Impact and Knowledge Exchange Competition – The Results!
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Research Impact and Knowledge Exchange Competition 2020 Research impact is ‘the
Joint statement from SGSAH/SGSSS with regards to funded doctoral researchers during strikes
We write jointly as Directors of SGSAH (Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities) and SGSSS (Scottish Graduate School of Social Science) to clarify the
15 interdisciplinary PhD studentships offered by SOCIAL CDT
Up to 15 fully-funded four-year studentships for September 2020 are currently being offered within the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Socially Intelligent Artificial Agents (SOCIAL).
Podcast: Designing rigorous and reflexive research with Ann Cunliffe and Barbara Simpson
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SGSSS Internships now open for applications
We are now inviting applications for Spring Term internships in 2020 Paid opportunities are available with Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Scottish Government and OFCOM. Internships
Tweets
☀️A reminder that this fantastic event starts this Thursday! Spaces have kindly been reserved for SGSSS students - check out more details on the website 👉https://spheres-of-singing.gla.ac.uk and email spheres-of-singing@glasgow.ac.uk to register! #phdchat #phdlife
There are still spaces for @sgsah and @SocSciScotland doctoral researchers to join us for #SpheresOfSinging. You may be interested in Dr @EmilyPeasgood's session on Practice Research and Collaborative Artworks in the Community https://emilypeasgood.com/ 1/
We have another studentship opportunity that we'd like to share with you! This @UofGlasgow studentship explores urban health inequalities from Victorian times to the present day, in collaboration with Glasgow City Archives. Find out more here 👉https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/urban_health_inequalities/ #phdchat
A few spaces available for this now 👉 https://social.sgsss.ac.uk/event/social-media-for-academics/
Tweeps: any of you planning to attend my @SocSciScotland Summer School session on social media and academics? I've just arranged to raise the number allowed to enrol. (But give us til tomorrow to get that live on the site). Open to PGR social science students based in Scotland!
We've published an open letter to our students regarding the SGSSS response to Covid-19.
You can read it here: https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/news/open-letter-to-students-regarding-sgsss-response-to-covid-19/
