School of Law

ESRC Quota PhD Studentship in Socio-Legal Studies and/or Criminology

The School of Law invites applications from prospective PhD students for a full-time or part-time ESRC funded 1+ 3 or +3 quota studentship in socio-legal studies and/or criminology commencing October 2012.

• Applicants for ESRC funded 1+3 awards are expected to have achieved an Upper Second Class honours (2:1) degree in any of the social science subjects including law at undergraduate level or above or to be currently completing the final year.

• Applicants for ESRC funded +3 awards are expected to have degree at Masters level or have equivalent research training experience and a degree in any of the social sciences at undergraduate level or above.

Eligibility
ESRC studentships are open to UK and EU citizens

• More information on eligibility

Maintenance grants for studentships in 2012/13 will be paid at the relevant ESRC rate, (£13,590 for 2011/12)

Further information
Further particulars and details of how to apply are available from Karin Houkes - Tel 0113 3435009, to whom completed applications should be returned by 17 February 2012.

Please include a 4-page (1200 words) outline of your proposed doctoral research with your application form. Informal enquires are welcome and should be directed to Professor Dagmar Schiek - Tel: 0113 3437771.

Further details of the work of the School of Law and its research centres, including the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, are available on our research pages.

Postgraduate Alumni Scholarships

The School of Law rewards the loyalty of those that have previously graduated from the School and who intend to pursue full-time postgraduate studies in the School.

We offer a 10 per cent reduction in postgraduate tuition fees for all alumni who are self-funding and meet the eligibility criteria set out below.

To be eligible for a scholarship, you must meet the following criteria.

• You must hold an offer of a place to study and begin your full-time postgraduate taught Masters programme in September 2012, or you must be newly registered for MPhil or PhD degree programmes in the academic year 2012-13.
• You must be a graduate of the School of Law, University of Leeds, that is you must have qualified on a full undergraduate or postgraduate degree (for example, a LLB, BA, LLM, MA.
• You must be wholly self-financing for the tuition fee element of your programme.We consider you to be self-financing if ...

• you are paying all of your tuition fees yourself
• you have support from a friend or relative
• or you have sponsorship from a friend or relative.

The Postgraduate Alumni Scholarship takes the form of a tuition fee reduction. The Postgraduate Alumni Scholarship cannot be awarded in addition to the School's International Taught Postgraduate Scholarship, but may be awarded in addition to other scholarships or awards from the University of Leeds.

In such instances, we apply the 10 per cent discount to the net fee that a student would otherwise pay. It is the duty of the student to advise the School of Law if s/he has applied for or has obtained funding for their tuition fees.

You do not need to complete a separate application form, but you must provide the following information to the Postgraduate Admissions Office.

• Details of your current/previous study at the School of Law.
• A copy of your previous qualification from the University if you have it available.

Types of funding that disqualify you from the Postgraduate Alumni Scholarship are as follows.

• If you have a full or partial scholarship for tuition fees from an external source such as a Chevening Scholarship.
• If you have sponsorship from the following or similar organisations: an organisation such as a UK Research Council; any government body e.g. an embassy; your employer or another company.

Graduate Teaching Assistantships for Research Degree candidates

Opportunities are sometimes available for our research degree students to take up Graduate Teaching Assistantships.