North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership
From antifascism to environmental peacebuilding
Matt Hanley, Development and Humanitarianism in an Unequal World, Lancaster University, 2019 Cohort
One cold winter afternoon in Berlin in 2016 I stood in solidarity with a small group of fellow antifascists, squaring up to about 3000 right-wing anti-immigrant protestors as they marched through the city’s Government quarter, chanting ‘We are the people’ and ‘Merkel must go!’. They were protesting the arrival in Germany of mostly Syrian refugees escaping the bloody civil war.
Read MoreMaking the most of training opportunities during a pandemic
Matina Shafti, Psychology, University of Manchester, 2019 Cohort
One of the most valuable aspects of doing a PhD is the wide range of skills you can build throughout your time as a student. This is especially made possible for NWSSDTP students who have access to the Research Training Support Grant (RTSG). You can apply to the RTSG to cover various costs relating to your research, such as attending conferences, purchasing books and training events. While the amount you can claim for some things is limited, there is funding available to cover the costs of training relevant to your research. This means that you can go to training events free of cost, as long as it is necessary for your PhD.
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Andrew McKendrick, Economics, Lancaster University, 2017 Cohort
In September 2020 I started an internship at the Department for Education (DfE). Its in London, I was in Lancaster. Such is the deal with an internship taking place during in a major public health situation – interning from home.
Read MoreStarting an MA at Lancaster University – Pandemic Edition
Charlotte Evans, Economic and Social History, Lancaster University, 2020 Cohort
It was late September, the colours on the trees boasting their most beautiful shades of the year and I was packing up my car to move to Lancaster. It was getting dark as I navigated the town-centre’s one-way system and eventually, after a couple of wrong turns, I reached my new house. I remember being dropped off by my parents in Nottingham where I completed my undergraduate degree, and that same, overwhelming sense of unfamiliarity washed over me. I didn’t know where any of these streets led. I’d have to learn my way around a whole new place, a new university and a new department in the middle of a worldwide pandemic.
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