The University of Sheffield
Department of Sociological Studies

26 January 2011

Universities combine to create doctoral training centre for social sciences

A successful collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York is set to lead to the creation of one of the UK´s biggest doctoral training centres for postgraduate researchers in the social sciences.

The consortium won approval from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for its `outstanding´ bid to form the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre (DTC), which from October 2011 will make 48 studentships per annum available for the next five years.