Applications for an SHI Foundation Collaborative Studentships

Background

The Foundation for Sociology of Health & Illness is the charity which owns the journal 'Sociology of Health & Illness'. In order to pursue the objectives of the charity, which are 'to promote and improve social scientific research, education and scholarship in the field of the sociology of health and illness', the trustees of the foundation have agreed to fund a number of initiatives including a postgraduate award scheme.

Object of the Collaborative Studentships:

In establishing these studentships, the trustees are looking to encourage departments offering postgraduate scholarships from their own internal resources to consider creating scholarships on medical sociological topics, by providing cash incentives to students and departments for suitable work in this area.

The SHI Foundation would operate like the collaborating agency in the ESRC Case Awards scheme: the Foundation award would be conditional on departmental and/or institutional support (payment of fees and a maintenance allowance), but the Foundation would offer £3000 pa to the successful department and £8000 pa to the successful student. The Foundation would aim to support at least one and perhaps two new four-year PhD student per annum. The £3000 pa payment to the department could be used as the department saw fit - as a contribution to fees, to the student stipend, to fieldwork expenses, or to some combination of these.

Applications should be made on the form for SHI Foundation Collaborative Studentships by the would-be principal supervisor. The successful applicant should make his/her own arrangements to allocate the award to a suitable student following equal opportunities principles. The Foundation should be named in all advertising.

Please address any queries about the application process or eligibility to Michael Bloor at M.Bloor@socsci.gla.ac.uk.

At the time of the award being made, the trustees of the Foundation will make every effort to ensure that the Foundation is in a financial position to make all future installments of the award, and the Foundation manages its reserves with this purpose in mind. But the trustees give notice that the continuance of the awards over future years will nevertheless be subject to the continuing financial health of the Foundation.