Centre-UB offers PhD studentships to support the development of the next generation of behavioural researchers.
Centre-UB PhD aims to produce well-rounded doctoral researchers with expertise in behavioural research who are ready to take up leadership-track positions in academia, industry, policy, and wider professional communities. Centre-UB promotes a positive research culture and a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion through specific training and good practice. Engagement with stakeholders, experts-by-experience and the public is embedded throughout.
All PhD projects are co-produced with a partner organisation, who will provide opportunities within their organisation for additional training and translation of behavioural research. Each PhD student will have at least two academic supervisors, and a supervisor based within the partner organisation.
Centre-UB studentships are four years in duration to allow sufficient time for conducting research, but also time for training, personal development, and research in practice within the partner organisation. A Centre-UB studentship includes tuition fees and a UKRI-rate stipend to cover living expenses.
Centre-UB provides a training environment characterised by excellent science, cutting edge methods, interdisciplinarity, and translation of world-leading research conducted by our behavioural researchers. Centre-UB PhD students will be provided with training tailored to their needs and expertise.
Training of our PhD students is categorised into the following types:
- specialist training, that includes in-depth subject/disciplinary methodological and theoretical training, and training and support in generating, accessing, and analysing data that supports data driven research applicable to human behaviour;
- conceptual training, to ensure that PhD students understand the breadth of social science methods, and to support them to make: (i) informed choices about their research design; and (ii) engage critically with research outside of their immediate discipline;
- general training, to equip PhD students with research skills required for postgraduate study and for their future career, within academia and/or beyond, e.g. project/data management, ethics, referencing, impact;
- ‘research in practice’ training, to develop PhD students’ transferable skills and to provide practical opportunities to apply theoretical knowledge and methodological skills in different contexts and during placements;
- cohort-building opportunities, to empower PhD students to develop peer support networks and engage in on-going learning, during and beyond the studentship.
Centre-UB PhD students have six-monthly training needs analyses to ensure opportunities within and outside academia are maximised for the student’s continuing professional development.