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ESRC Network Studentship 2015

Posted on 5 February 2015

New ESRC studentship available for research into Spatial Data Analytics for Food Safety

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The Department of Politics are pleased to announce our involvement in the White Rose ESRC Network: Big Data and Food Safety. Dr Simon Parker will co-supervise a project looking at spatial data analytics for food safety, which has one fully funded ESRC studentship attached to it.   

ESRC eligibility criteria:

  • Awards are only available to nationals from the UK and EU and are not open to applicants who are liable to pay academic fees at the international fee rate. UK applicants will be eligible for a full award (paying fees and maintenance at standard Research Council rates). EU applicants are normally eligible for a fees only award, unless they have been resident in the UK for 3 years immediately preceding the date of the award.
  • For 1+3 and +3 awards, applicants must hold at least a UK upper second class honours degree or equivalent.
  • Applicants applying for a +3 award must demonstrate that they have already completed the full research training requirements. 

Find out more here.