Full time PhD Scholarship in Corporate Responsibility, Nottingham University

The scholarship will cover full tuition fees as well as tax-free living expenses of £13,290 per year (estimate at ESRC rate). Your entry into the scholarship competition will require youracceptance onto the Doctoral Programme.

The scholarship will cover full tuition fees as well as tax-free living expenses of £13,290 per year (estimate at ESRC rate).

Your entry into the scholarship competition will require your
acceptance onto the Doctoral Programme. Students who want to be
considered for this scholarship competition should submit their
postgraduate

Application by 31 August 2009

at the latest. You can complete your Postgraduate Application in hardcopy or online at http://pgapps.nottingham.ac.uk.

Indicate that you are interested in this scholarship in the personal
details section of the online postgraduate application form or section
3 of the hardcopy postgraduate application form. In response to the
question ‘how do you expect to pay for you studies’ you need to state
‘ICCSR Second Round Scholarship applicant’.

You should also submit, with your application, your research
proposal, two academic references, academic transcripts and English
language (if required). Applicants should be available to begin their
doctoral studies in September 2009.

Scholarship applications will be evaluated on the basis of former
qualifications, academic background, references and research proposal.
All of the documentation relating to this must be submitted by the
scholarship deadline of 31 August 2009.

Your doctoral studies will be supervised by two academic members of
staff (at least one of which will be a member of the ICCSR team) and
therefore please ensure that a member of the ICCSR academic team is
currently working in the area you are interested in studying. At this
late stage candidates who have already entered into correspondence with
a potential supervisor are more likely to be successful.

To give your application the best chance of success, then please pay particular attention to the following:

? The relevance of your project to your potential supervisors research interests

? The suitability of your topic for study at postdoctoral level

? The feasibility of completing your research within the timescales of a PhD

? The practicality of your research plans particularly with respect to
the access you might be able to secure for data collection.

Further guidance on the application process, preparation of a research
proposal and English language requirements are available on the
doctoral programme pages of the Business School website. Further
information about the ICCSR is available from the ICCSR website.