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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
We are excited to announce that @anandMenon1 will be joining our Summer School to deliver a keynote on “Brexit, British politics, and social science” (plus a short Q&A). It's this Tuesday, 1-2pm. If you're interested (you should be!) sign up here: https://social.sgsss.ac.uk/event/anand-menon-keynote/ #phdchat
One of the most exciting outputs from the Critical Realism Network project was a series of five short videos introducing critical realism. They're now online! Links here: http://criticalrealismnetwork.org/2020/05/29/critical-realism-video-introductions-launched/ @EngageCR @cacrisalves @GrahamScambler @RealistProject @katelinphd @TimothyRutzou
Fantastic blog post from our friends over at @sgsahblog on networking in academia (including online networking tips!) Take a look 👇https://sgsahblog.com/2020/05/15/networking-in-academia/ #phdchat #phdlife
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Networking is a word that sends many of us running, but ultimately it's something we have to do! Researchers share their tips on how to make the most of physical and online opportunities 👇
https://sgsahblog.com/2020/05/15/networking-in-academia/
Carrying out qualitative research under lockdown - Practical and ethical considerations
#QualResearch https://wp.me/p4m9em-9Vi
