Postgraduate Study at CRESC
CRESC currently has a lively and engaged post-graduate community, and we are keen to welcome PhD applications from anyone who is keen to undertake doctoral work within our exciting interdisciplinary programme. From 2010 we are funding one CRESC PhD studentship, and there is also the possibility for students to apply from other sources such as the ESRC or University of Manchester studentships. Currently we have students from France, Turkey, the UK, Germany, China, Brazil, Hong Kong, and Taiwan working on aspects of socio-cultural change - ranging from studies of social mobility, urban change, social theory, elites, and changing forms of identity. More information on our students is found on student webpages (link). Regular seminars are held and and full administrative support is provided . There are excellent opportunities for post-graduate students to become involved in the wider research programme of CRESC, and students have been employed on funded research projects. All students are affiliated with an academic discipline, meaning that they can also benefit from the facilities made available to students in, for example, anthropology, history, politics, sociology, and management.
Supervision can be provided by Centre Directors or Research Associates/ Fellows. Anyone interested in applying should in the first instance discuss their interest with CRESC post-graduate co-ordinators - Mike Savage (Mike.Savage@manchester.ac.uk) at Manchester and TBA at the Open University - who will advise on the appropriate discipline and school through which an application can be made and how best to apply for funding.
In addition, CRESC also organises an active programme of short courses and a summer school which MA and PhD students from any university are welcome to attend on a fee paying basis. In 2009-10 we are running three day short courses on sequence analysis and on multiple correspondence analysis. We are also running a five day Summer School from July 12-17 on Using Bourdieu’s theory and methods in social research.