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Congratulations to NWDTC student Adrian Leguina, from the Social Statistics pathway at Manchester, who has passed his viva. Adrian’s thesis is titled ‘Multidimensional facets of cultural distinctions in the music domain: Meaning, context, and methods in contemporary...

Applications are invited from current PhD students in the North West Doctoral Training Centre (NWDTC) for funding for a study visit to partner institutions in Latvia, Estonia or Lithuania. The University of Latvia (Riga) Tallinn University (Estonia) Lithuanian...

Amelia Abercrombie, Doctoral student in Language Based Area Studies at the University of Manchester, reports on her NWDTC-funded fieldwork in Kosovo. I’ve recently come back from 18 months of fieldwork in Prizren, Kosovo, where I’ve been researching multilingual Roma...

Dan Slade is a Doctoral Student in the Planning and Environment pathway at the University of Liverpool. Dan reports here on his experiences during his Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Fellowship. Introduction and background Last month I finished a...

In search of the next generation of creative social scientists, the ESRC and SAGE are launching an essay competition to mark their shared 50th anniversary to take a creative look at what impact social sciences will have on the world in 2065. The ESRC want to hear your...