North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
Popular Music and Wellbeing Conference
Ragnhild Nordset, Business & Management, University of Liverpool (2020 Cohort)
With a few academic conferences under my belt, including presenting my PhD research at EGOS, I felt ready to face the music. Or to be more precise; face the music industry. My research focuses on the wellbeing experiences of the working artist and the Popular Music and Wellbeing Conference would be my first industry conference presenting my own work. I have enjoyed and learned from all the academic conferences I have had the privilege of attending, but it is the kind of experience that can be just as alienating as fulfilling. Perhaps it is the many different disciplines crammed together for a short period of time, or the pressure for many academics to be seen and heard in a meaningful way at these influential happenings? Whatever the cause, by the end of them I have always been happy and ready to reconnect with the ‘normal’ world. I must admit, the industry experience was a different kettle of fish.
Read More£20m in ESRC-funding awarded to the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
The North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP) is pleased to announce that it has been recommissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for a further five years of activity, commencing in 2024.
The NWSSDTP is a consortium of universities, led by the University of Liverpool, which provides funding and training for postgraduate students in the social sciences. The partnership will receive more than £20 million in funding from the ESRC, equating to a minimum of 44 postgraduate studentships a year for the next five years across the constituent universities.
NWSSDTP Targeted Applicant Workshops
The NWSSDTP will be running a series of workshops in November to support applicants from groups frequently underrepresented in higher education and Postgraduate Research.
These workshops will cover:
- What it’s like to do a PhD.
- Who the ESRC are and details about the funding/scholarships and exciting training opportunities available to support PhDs/postgraduate researchers.
- The process of applying for an ESRC funded PhD including tips about how to navigate each stage of the process.
Archive research at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Amy Stanning, Economic and Social History, Lancaster University (2021 Cohort)
I was incredibly fortunate to spend four weeks this summer in Ann Arbor, Michigan working in the William L. Clements Library. The Library has an extensive collection of unique archival material relating to the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
My NWSSDTP funded PhD project is addressing the question, ‘Was there a Taxation Revolution in late eighteenth-century Britain?’ So why would I need to research papers at the Clements Library?
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