Cardiff Business School ESRC Quota PhD Studentships in Economics

Cardiff Business School

Cardiff University

Subjects: Economics

Two ESRC Quota PhD Research Studentships in Economics are available at Cardiff Business School, to commence late-September 2010.

Cardiff Business School was ranked 4th out of 90 UK business schools in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and ‘excellent’ for teaching. Lively, elegant, confident and cosmopolitan, the city of Cardiff offers an excellent location in which to study. Students benefit from the combination of a small, friendly, inexpensive city with the cultural and recreational amenities of an ambitious and progressive capital city.

Research in Economics at Cardiff Business School

Specialised areas of research in which we would preferably like to receive applications are:

Labour economics
Macroeconomic theory and application
Regional economics (especially Wales)
International trade and finance
Econometric theory and applications
Financial economics
For further details on the Economics PhD at Cardiff Business School, please see

http://www.cf.ac.uk/carbs/programmes/phd/routes/economics.html

To contact a member of academic staff to discuss your research proposal prior to making an application (strongly advised), see:-

http://www.cf.ac.uk/carbs/programmes/phd/interests.html

Study information

Entry requirements:: 1st class honours degree or high 2:1 Honours degree, or a masters degree with an average mark of 65% in a relevant subject.
No. of students per year:: 2

Funding information

Funding applies to:

EU applicants (including UK)

Funding notes:

This is an ESRC funded award, and includes full UK/EU tuition fees plus an enhanced doctoral stipend of about £16,290 pa (£3,000 p.a. above the standard rate).

Additional funding offered includes an ESRC Doctoral Training Allowance of £750 pa in +3 phase of PhD, and a school fieldwork allowance of £750 pa for duration of +3 phase of PhD.

Full awards (fees plus maintenance stipend) are open to UK Nationals, and EU students who can satisfy UK residency requirements. To be eligible for the full award, EU Nationals must have been in the UK for at least 3 years prior to the start of the course for which they are seeking funding, including for the purposes of full-time education. EU Nationals who do not meet the above residency requirement are eligible for a fees-only award, provided that they have been ordinarily resident in the EU for at least 3 years prior to the start of their proposed programme of study.

Contacts and how to apply

Administrative contact and how to apply:

Applications can be submitted via Cardiff’s Online Application Service - for details and to begin an application, please see http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/for/prospective/pg/apply/

In the ‘Funding’ section of the Online Application Form, please indicate that you are applying for an ESRC Quota PhD Studentship in Economics. Guidance for sending supporting documentation is also available via your Online Application account.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

For more information please contact Ms Elsie Phillips (PhD Programme Secretary):
Email: PhillipsE2@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: 029 2087 6786

Application deadline:

1 April 2010