ESRC White Rose Social Sciences DTP (WRDTP) Scholarships

The Economic and Social Research Council White Rose DTP is a regional consortium of seven universities with social science research excellence and involves the universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York as well as Bradford, Hull, Manchester Metropolitan and Sheffield Hallam.

The WRDTP has been accredited by the ESRC to offer PhD scholarships across a range of schemes, available for doctoral research students commencing their studies in October 2025. The following awards will be open for application from students:

• up to 35 Pathway Awards available across the DTP incorporating 2 Interdisciplinary Research Awards and 2 WRDTP/Stuart Hall Foundation Awards for Black British applicants.
• up to 2 WRDTP Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM) Awards
• up to 2 WRDTP Advanced Data Analytics (ADA) Awards

There will also be up to 8 Collaborative Awards made to supervisory teams for projects involving collaboration with an external partner. Supervisors will apply for these awards, and those projects that are awarded funding will be open for applications from students in early Spring 2025. 

Further information about each of the award schemes can be found on the WRDTP website and on the University’s WRDTP funding webpage. All awards are available on a 1+3.5, +3.75 or a +3.5 basis, and can be held full-time or part-time.

Applicants will first be considered by the department and then nominated for further consideration in the application process. To facilitate this, you must have applied for your PhD (iPhD or PhD in Health Economics) programme by 20th December 2024. 

For further queries, please speak to your prospective supervisor or email maigen.savory@york.ac.uk