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Prospective Research Students

Prospective MPhil/PhD students should email Dr Ian Tucker (i.tucker@uel.ac.uk) with any enquiries. However, please note that Dr Tucker will ask any applicants the following questions.

  1. What is your proposed project about?
  2. With whom do you wish to work and have you made contact with them? (A look at the staff pages and the research groups will provide contact details and information about interests.)
  3. What is your source of funding?

Applications are handled through the Graduate School, where all the relevant forms can be found.

Submission of an application is the first formal stage. If an application is successful candidates will be called to interview in the School of Psychology and a final decision will be made thereafter.

Funding

The School of Psychology periodically offers studentships for MPhil/PhD candidates. These studentships are advertised on jobs.ac.uk in good time to make an application. However, most candidates will have to apply for funding from other sources.

It is worth noting that funding for a PhD can be achieved in a piecemeal fashion, with contributions from more than one organization. Charities may not, for instance, be able to give an entire scholarship, but a contribution.

Below are some useful sources of information on postgraduate funding including charities.

Candidates can be funded by grants held by academic members of staff. It is worth noting that such grant capture is a lengthy process and will be led by an academic member of staff seeking to develop a project. Nonetheless, keeping an eye on potential funding opportunities is a good idea and current undergraduate and M-level students may wish to alert colleagues to opportunities of mutual interest. Below is a list of standard grant funding bodies, some of which will also offer studentships.

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