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PhD Funding

Financial support available to social policy research students.

There is no separate application for funding. Funding is allocated by nomination and you will automatically be considered for the award you are eligible for alongside all applications received by the funding deadline. There are two types of funding available for the MPhil/PhD in Social Policy

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ESRC scholarships  (1+3 and +3 schemes) for UK and EU  candidates

• The 1+3 scheme provides funding for a one year research training Master's linked to a three year PhD and is designed for students who have not already completed an ESRC-recognised programme of research training at MSc level. 1+3 candidates for the  MPhil/PhD Social Policy   programme should apply for the  MSc International Social and Public Policy (Research)  and include an outline research proposal that fully covers the elements required as set out on the  research programmes page . Transfer from the one-year MSc programme to the three-year MPhil/PhD programme is dependent on obtaining high marks in the Master's degree (65%+).
• The + 3 scheme provides three years funding for the MPhil/PhD programme for students who have already achieved an ESRC-recognised 'research training' MSc or have undertaken equivalent research training. + 3 candidates should submit an application with information on their ESRC recognised 'research training' MSc. If you do not have the ESRC-recognised research training, you will need to include information on the training that you have already undertaken with a statement making the case of its equivalence in particular with regard to research methods training

LSE's  Financial Support Office  administers a variety of studentships and award schemes for which different deadlines apply.   There may be other funding opportunities available through other organisations or governments and we recommend you investigate these options as well.

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Available programmes 2024/5

Last updated: 28 march 2024.

• Please make sure that you read and follow all our instructions for the application process to make sure that you submit the right documents in good time. Good luck with your application!
• Please prepare before you apply: assemble your transcripts, approach referees to make sure they are available to write letters on your behalf, and polish your Statement of Academic Purpose.
• Please note that when programmes close, this applies  to new applicants only - if your application is already under consideration you should check your individual status on the online tracker rather than using this page.
• We run a rolling admissions system where programmes close once all places have been filled. When possible, we will inform applicants in progress that a programme has reached limited availability, but changes can occur quickly and programmes may close without warning. Our advice is always to complete and submit your application as early as possible.
• NOTE: VRS applicants intending to start in the Spring (April 2024) term can still apply. 

Research funding deadlines

Please note:   to be considered for  LSE PhD Studentships  or  ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarships  (for 1+3 or +3 funding), you must submit your complete application, including ALL supporting documents and references, by the following deadlines 

• 1 December 2023 (Law School)
• 14 December 2023 (Department of Economics)
• 15 January 2024 (first funding deadline) *
• 25 April 2024 (second funding deadline) 

* Please note: to be considered for ESRC DTP Scholarships you must apply by the first funding deadline.

MA/MSc H-O (including LLM)

Ma/msc p-z (including mpa, mpp), double degrees, mres/phd and mphil/phd.

Be sure to check the funding and application deadlines for your chosen programme on the individual programme page.

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In-course financial support for final stage PhD students

In-course financial support may be available for students in the final year of their phd.

Registered PhD students in their final writing up stages can apply financial support from LSE. This is particularly relevant if you have been funded for only the first three years of your PhD and are close to finishing but cannot quite reach the point of submission due to financial difficulties. We would not expect anyone already supported for their fourth year to apply (eg LSE Studentship Awardees).  The purpose of this scheme is to enable you to submit within the normal maximum period of registration.  

The awards offered under this scheme vary in size and depend on each applicant’s situation. Other income from any part time employment or teaching will be expected and taken into account. 

MRes or MPhil level students, or PhD students who have knowingly registered under-funded at the start of their research programme cannot be considered for this funding.  

Please note that students who have already submitted their thesis and are awaiting their viva are not eligible.

How to apply

This funding is assessed using the PhD Final Year Fund form (PDF). This application form can be completed electronically and submitted by email. Awards are made throughout the academic session; there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Your academic supervisor(s) will be asked to support you application and to confirm your expected date of submission.

Once you have submitted the completed application form with any relevant supporting documentation you should expect to receive a decision within ten working days.

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Sources of financial support for phd students.

Avinash Mandalia

Whether you’re thinking about pursuing a PhD at LSE and looking for sources of funding or you’re a current PhD student who needs a bit of extra financial help, there are many resources available to help you access the support you need. 

INTERNAL RESOURCES

If you’re looking to begin a PhD, there are numerous opportunities to receive funding for your research. Different departments at LSE can offer different funding opportunities, so check out their websites to learn more. LSE offers PhD Studentships and these awards are open to prospective students from any nationality across all research areas at LSE. In 2022, approximately 80 of such awards were given out. 

If you’re currently a PhD student here at LSE and experiencing financial difficulties, there are resources available to help. LSE offers in-course financial support for final stage PhD students who, for example, require funding for their fourth year of studies. 

If you’re experiencing additional unforeseen financial difficulties, you may be eligible for the LSESU Hardship Fund . The Fund is to help students who have fallen into short-term hardship to continue with their studies and complete their degree. The LSESU also administers a Childcare Fund and a Graduate Gown Support Fund . 

EXTERNAL RESOURCES

Outside of LSE, there are numerous ways to find funding as a doctoral student in the UK. LSE has created a list of additional ways to fund yourself during your PhD and a list of PhD Awards by Country. A common source of funding for doctoral research is research councils. Below are some funds to check out:

• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

There are also other websites and organisations that you can explore to find funded PhD projects:

• FindAPhD.com
• Postgraduate Studentships
• EURAXESS UK Funding Search
• Discover PhDs

If you’re an international student, many of these funds are available for you too. You can also check out UK PhD scholarships for international students and country-specific funding depending on your home country. FindAPhD.com has compiled a useful list of such funding opportunities. 

Additional resources

• Turn2us with a database of charitable grants for people in need.
• LSE has signed up to the Alternative Guide’s Gateway, meaning you can sign up using an email address of your choice and use LSE’s Alternative Guide Pin: 6137 (option 2 when you register).
• The Leverhulme Trust  
• The Wellcome Trust
• The Nuffield Foundation .

Blog written by Hannah Thomsen.

Hannah works as an Advice Assistant at the LSESU Advice Service.

THE LSESU ADVICE TEAM

The LSESU Advice Team is based on the 3rd floor of the Saw Swee Hock Building and we provide free, independent and confidential advice to all LSE students on academic and housing matters. We also administer the Hardship Fund, the Childcare Fund and the Graduation Gown Support Fund (GGSF).

Our service is currently operating using a hybrid working pattern. We are still open and can be accessed by emailing [email protected] . You can also book a telephone or Zoom appointment with an adviser through Student Hub .

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January 10th, 2024

Master’s funding opportunities at lse.

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LSE is a leading social science institution that seeks to welcome any student irrespective of their background and based on their academic potential. To achieve this, every academic year, LSE offers several merit as well as need-based funding for offer holders looking to study a master’s or a diploma at the School.

1. Need-based and merit-based awards

LSE offers a range of need-based scholarships to students to help them complete their studies. These include the:

• Graduate Support Scheme
• LSE Master’s Awards 
• Donor-funded awards for Home fee status students
• Programme-related funding
• Anniversary Scholarships
• LSE Access to Education Graduate Scholarship

The eligibility as well as the award prize all depend on the type of award. Check the individual information pages above for details on each award as well as eligibility criterion. 

2. Country-based awards

LSE also offers a range of scholarships depending on your nationality and place of residence. 

These vary greatly from country to country and you will have to check individual webpages for information. For example, if you hold Indian citizenship, you will be eligible to apply for India country-based awards . However, there might also be some slight variation and eligibility requirements within one country’s scholarships offering so I strongly urge you to do your due diligence! 

Check out the full list of country-based awards offered at LSE to master’s students .

3. How to apply?

Application to all the scholarships mentioned above is actually very simple and seamless. You will have to apply for the Graduate Support Scheme on your graduate applicant portal once you have received an offer from LSE. The Graduate Support Scheme directly considers you for all eligible awards available at LSE. The deadline to apply for the scheme for September 2024 entry is 25 April 2025 (5pm BST).

To apply for the Graduate Support scheme, your details will directly be taken from the information you supplied about yourself at the time of application. In addition, you will need to supplement your funding application with a Personal Statement if you wish to be considered for any other support schemes other than the Graduate Support Scheme. 

Best of luck and we look forward to welcoming you soon at LSE!

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Hi, everyone. I'm Gauri, 24, from Mumbai, India. I study MSc Management and Strategy, a specialist degree in Managerial Economics. I'm excited for this new chapter at LSE! I have an undergraduate degree in Economics from St Xavier’s, Mumbai and was also an ERASMUS Scholar at SOAS, University of London. After graduating, I worked in finance at a healthcare company as well as in social impact consulting. Academically, I'm interested in the application of theoretical economic models to business case studies. In my spare time, apart from stressing about all the things I should instead be doing, I enjoy reading and exploring bookshops.

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Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Arts, Humanities, and Interpretive Social Sciences at Duke Kunshan University

Register for the 2024 Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference

The Humanities Research Center is pleased to announce its annual Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference, Superdeep , which will be held in person at Duke Kunshan University from April 26-27, 2023. The conference will feature approximately 40 undergraduate research papers and 4 keynote addresses. Students who register for the conference may attend an exclusive seminar with one of the keynote speakers, as well as a gala dinner with all the presenters.

Register to attend the conference here by April 19

View the draft program here

Keynote Speakers

Roger T. Ames  安樂哲 is Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University, Senior Academic Advisor of the Peking University Berggruen Research Center, and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i. He is former editor of  Philosophy East & West  and founding editor of  China Review International . Ames has authored several interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture, and his publications also include translations of the Chinese philosophical classics. His most recent monograph is  Human Becomings: Theorizing ‘Persons’ for Confucian Role Ethics  (2021). He has most recently compiled the new  Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy  with its companion  A Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy , and is committed to writing articles promoting a conversation between pragmatism and Confucian philosophy.

Ru YE is an associate professor at Wuhan University. She works on epistemology, more specifically, epistemic permissivism, higher-order evidence, and pragmatic encroachment. She is also interested in formal epistemology and the intersection between ethics and epistemology.  She received her PhD from Cornell University in 2016, and before that, she did undergraduate work at Wuhan University. 

Seth Jaffe is Associate Professor (Research) of the History of Political Thought at Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome (LUISS). His PhD is from the University of Toronto, his MSc from the LSE, and his BA from Bowdoin. He has worked on U.S. foreign policy, been a postdoc at FU Berlin, and is a regular Senior Associate of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He has research interests in Greek and Roman political philosophy, the history of international political thought, and how classical frameworks can enrich contemporary debates. His first book, Thucydides on the Outbreak of War , was published in 2017 by Oxford UP, and he is working on a book on Polybius. He recently co-edited (with Guillermo Graíño Ferrer) a double special issue of The Review of Politics on populism in the history of political thought.

Hao TANG is Professor of Philosophy at Tsinghua University. He received his MA and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh after graduating with a BSc in Material Science from Fudan University. He is interested in Wittgenstein, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of action.

Audible Founder Don Katz Shares Insights at MBA Executive Speaker Series

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On April 3rd, the MBA and Graduate Programs Office, in partnership with the School of Communication and Media and College of Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted the first Executive Speaker Series event of the 2024 semester.

The guest speaker was Don Katz, the founder of Audible, the leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling. Don led the company from its founding in 1995 until 2022. He is also the founder of Newark Venture Partners, a social impact early-stage investment fund and ultra-bandwidth accelerator that seeks to connect Newark to the early-stage technology start-up innovation economy. Don was previously a journalist and author for 20 years, writing five books and serving as contributing editor at Rolling Stone, Outside, Esquire, and other publications. He is a graduate of New York University and also holds an MSc Econ from the London School of Economics and Political Science. The title of the presentation was “A Conversation with Don Katz, Founder of Audible”

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