What we offer

A Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), SENSS provides:

  • Fully-funded doctoral studentships

  • Supervision from internationally leading experts in their field

  • Research methods training tailored to individuals' needs, and

  • A range of placements in which researchers can bring their social scientific skills and findings beyond academia

SENSS is distinguished by three strands that run through everything we do: 

  • Along with a commitment -- backed up with a detailed action plan -- to achieve more

  • SENSS partners are deeply embedded and highly active in their local communities as well as nationally and internationally, meaning that researchers contribute to solutions to the toughest social and policy problems

  • SENSS is organised not by academic subjects but by thematic priorities, so every funded researcher works in an area of national and international importance