PhD, Women’s Grassroots Organizations and Mobilisations

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King's College London

  • Career category: Research/ Data analysis
  • Job type: PhD
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Research
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: £25,334 GBP / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 15/10/2023
  • Location: United Kingdom, London
Movement building
Explores the activities of grassroots women’s organizations in the UK and beyond. Guided by a range of feminist theories of political participation and social movement theory.

Eligibility criteria

In addition to the standard requirements for King’s College London Applied Public Policy programme, applicants must meet the following additional eligibility criteria for this award:

· Be enthusiastic about (gaining) qualitative and quantitative methods training at an advanced level.

· Agree to audit both qualitative and quantitative methods training in line with whole team training requirements.

· Collaborate in data collection and analysis – both quantitative and qualitative - and co-authorship with other the other PhD, post-docs, and CI and PIs, as per reasonable requests from the QUALREP PIs

· A commitment to feminist philosophies of social science and to feminist research practices

· A willingness to learn the skills of impactful research.

· Where students have a non-social science degree we would expect indications of relevant research interests, commitment, and skills.

Award conditions

The successful studentship is funded by UKRI and they will be following the UKRI training conditions.

Please note that the award is only for full-time PhD applications and for students on the Home/UK fee rate. Please ensure you check your eligibility via UKRI condition TGC 5.2 before you apply.

Application process
We would welcome applications from those with either a social science undergraduate degree or masters degree, and from candidates from other disciplines who can demonstrate relevant research interests, commitment and skills.

Applicants should combine in a single PDF document and send to [email protected] 

  1. A full University transcript, showing the breakdown of marks for individual modules/courses, and where appropriate, a dissertation (if due to the UCU marking boycott the transcript is provisional or only partial, please make this clear)
  2. CV, of no more than 2 pages
  3. Two references from academic staff who have direct experience of your work, including, if at all possible, your dissertation supervisor
  4. A 2 page personal statement setting out - in response to the QUALREP Briefing included above- the following:
    • Why do you want to study at King’s Policy Institute, GIWL?
    • What is it about the QUALREP project, and the specific PhD theme(s), that particularly interests you?
    • In what ways does your undergraduate study make you suitable for this/these PhDs?
    • What are you (a) academic and (b) personal, strengths and weaknesses?
    • Why would you be a good member of the QUALREP research team? What would you bring to the team?
    • Please share an example of where you have shown tenacity either in your studies, employment or in a voluntary capacity.
    • Why do you wish to study for a PhD? Why would you like to study for a PhD as part of large research project?
 
Selection process
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for a presentation and an interview

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