The NWSSDTP supports Postgraduate Researchers and Postdoctoral Fellows across a full range of social science disciplines, organised into 21 subject pathways. Details of each pathway, including the constituent programmes eligible for studentship funding, can be found on the relevant individual pathway pages:

• Accounting and Finance
• Biosocial Research
• Business and Management
• Criminology, Social Policy and Social Work
• Development and Humanitarianism
• Economic and Social History
• Economics
• Educational Research
• Geography and Environment
• Health and Wellbeing
• Language Based Area Studies
• Linguistics
• Planning and Environment
• Politics
• Psychology
• Social Anthropology
• Social Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
• Social Statistics
• Social Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine
• Socio-legal Studies
• Sociology

Each subject pathway has academic pathway representative who can advise on discipline specific queries from prospective applicants or current students. The contact details for pathway representatives can be found here.