Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Surrey

Studentship Competition Application Form for September 2018 Entry

Please submit this form as the ‘Research Proposal’ when submitting your application for a PhD at Surrey via the online PhD application portal: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/postgraduate/sociology-phd

The deadline for submission of your application, complete with this completed form and other supporting documentation, is as follows:

21 January 2018: Hospitality and Tourism Management

28 January 2018: Literature and Languages, GSA, Music and Media

18 March 2018: Business and Management, Economics, Law, Politics, Sociology

1: Name

Title
/
First name(s)
/
Last name
2: Professional experience that is relevant to this application (add in rows if required)
Dates / Full or part-time? / Employer/Organisation
(including location) / Status and responsibilities

3: Career in higher education to date

Undergraduate degree / Master’s degree / PhD (if already started) / Other (e.g. PGCE)
Name of university and/or college
Country (if not UK)
Month and year in which your programme started and finished (or will finish) / Start date
mm yy / End date
mm yy / Start date
mm yy / End date
mm yy / Start date
mm yy / End date
mm yy / Start date
mm yy / End date
mm yy
Qualification and title of award
Degree classification (where awarded)
Marks on completed modules (where appropriate)

4: Are you applying to study full-time or part-time?

5: Title of Proposed Research Project

6: Outline of Proposed Research Project (maximum 2000 words – any words beyond the 2000 limit will be removed)

7: Details of Project Partners and Collaborators (if applicable)

Do you have Project Partners? / NO (please move to section 8) / YES (please complete this section)
Organisation:
Name and contact information of supervisor at the organisation (if applicable)
Sector of organisation (public, private, voluntary/charitable)
Has a formal collaboration agreement been signed by all parties involved? / NO / YES

If there are additional project partners please duplicate this section and fill in as necessary

Funding

Please detail the contribution to made by the collaborator

Description of contribution: Include below whether the partner has experience of research student supervision or plans to have any input into supervision; why the partnership will be of benefit to the student; whether there is a past history of working with the partner on research activity, and what monitoring procedures will be in place (maximum 800 words)

8: Ethical Considerations

Please explain whether or not there are any ethical issues raised by your proposed project (Maximum 200 words):

9: Potential Impact:

Please detail any expected knowledge exchange or impacts you envision to be generated by your research in this section (Maximum 200 words).

10: Your referees

Please complete the referees' contact details below. Referees must be able to comment on your academic ability and potential (only one referee may be part of your supervisory team).

Referee 1

Name (block capitals)
Contact telephone number
Contact e-mail address
Institution/Organisation
Position
Contact address

Referee 2

Name (block capitals)
Contact telephone number
Contact e-mail address
Institution/Organisation
Position
Contact address

11: Applicant's declaration

I confirm that the information I have provided in this form is complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge at this date. I fully understand that it is my responsibility to ensure that the relevant forms are submitted to the relevant contact person in due time and that any missing information may render my application incomplete and ineligible.

Signature / Date

12: Supervisors (Section must be completed by the supervisors). Non completion or superficial completion may prejudice the application’s prospect of acceptance.

Main Supervisor
Contact Details (Email & Telephone)
Have student and supervisor met or corresponded? (please give brief details)
Doctoral Supervision experience (number of students supervised to completion and currently)
Brief description of supervisor’s research interests
Supervisor’s experience in relation to applicant’s research project
Second Supervisor
Contact Details (Email & Telephone)
Name of University
Have student and supervisor met or corresponded? (please give brief details)
Doctoral Supervision experience (number of students supervised to
completion and currently; details of successful ESRC supervision)
Brief description of supervisor’s research interests
Supervisor’s experience in relation to applicant’s research project

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