Currently closed. Applications for September 2025 will open in late 2024.
The Midlands Graduate School is an accredited Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership and forms part of the ESRC’s new Doctoral Training Network which significantly widens access for postgraduates to ESRC funding across the UK.
The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) is is part of an ESRC network of Doctoral Training Partnerships in collaboration with:
- Aston University
- University of Birmingham
- University of Leicester
- Loughborough University
- University of Nottingham
- University of Warwick
This Doctoral Training Partnership offers 17 different training pathways that span various social science disciplines; several postgraduate studentships will be awarded annually across the pathways and institutions. These studentships are linked to a specific training pathways and some studentships have a built-in element of collaboration.
Please refer to the above link for details of areas of research we offer and contact with the Pathway Lead to discuss your research before submitting your Leicester PhD application and Research Proposal Form. .
You also need to submit your ERSC funding application. Please be aware that you will only be able to submit one funding application to the MGS DTP and you cannot apply for funding on multiple different pathways or for pathway funding at multiple MGS DTP institutions.
Application information and the link to the Research Proposal Form can be found below.
