Baltic Social Anthropology Pathway Partnering Scheme

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...

Fieldwork: Researching multilingual Roma in Kosovo

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...

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Fellowship

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...

UK EMCA Doctoral Network

The North West Doctoral Training Centre is pleased to announce its participation in the UK EMCA Doctoral Network. The UK EMCA Doctoral Network is a unique community for students interested in the interrelated fields of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis...

Viva success: Ann-Charlott Timander

Congratulations to NWDTC student Ann-Charlott Timander, from the Health & Wellbeing pathway at Lancaster, who has passed her viva. Ann-Charlott’s title was ‘The Reclaiming and (Re) construction of Positive Identities in the Recovery Process by Women and Men with...