2012 Economics Research and Teaching Studentships at University of East Anglia, UK

Introduction

The School of Economics is pleased to offer Research and Teaching Studentships (RTS) in 2011/12 to non-fully externally funded applicants

with a good Masters degree or equivalent in Economics or a related area. The School will offer up to 4 studentships to the right applicants.

The School of Economics is a lively, research-oriented department, committed to excellence in high quality research and teaching. The School has a strong international reputation in experimental and behavioral economics and in industrial and competition economics; it also engages in research in a number of other areas, such as development economics, labour economics, media economics, macroeconomics, financial econometrics and microeconometrics. Please click to access details of our Economics Research Areas. The successful applicants will enrol on a research degree and will also be expected to contribute to a limited amount of teaching within the School. Training to develop teaching skills will be given through the University Teaching Skills Programme for Postgraduate Teaching Assistants. The studentship is for one year in the first instance, but this will be renewed for a further two years subject to satisfactory academic progress in both research and teaching.

The Studentship covers Home/EU tuition fees (£3,732 for 2011-12), a Maintenance Grant of £8,000 and a Research Training Support Grant of £750 per year. In addition, you will be required to engage in teaching and teaching support activities that should enable you to earn an additional £3,000 - £4,000 in year 1 and £4,000 - £5,000 in years 2 and 3 of your degree.

Level 

Research

Eligibility / Criteria 

The School of Economics is pleased to offer Research and Teaching Studentships (RTS) in 2011/12 to non-fully externally funded applicants with a good Masters degree or equivalent in Economics or a related area.
-The School will offer up to 4 studentships to the right applicants

Deadline

25th March 2011

Further Scholarship Information and Application