1. The UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral Training Partnership
We are delighted to announce our participation in the ESRC-funded UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral Training Partnership.
We are seeking applicants for the first cohort of students in the following areas:
Health and Wellbeing:
Research into the psychology of health and wellbeing, or to address national and international priorities in education, child and family health, and parenting support, providing evidence to inform social policy
Full description : (Link to full text)
Contact: Jonathan Smith
Economics:
This pathway provides exceptionally strong and complementary expertise in the field of economics and finance
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Yunus Aksoy
Psychology:
The Psychology pathway offers great breadth, with interlocking areas of strength in development, education, social change, language, cognition, neuroscience, and computation.
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Michael Thomas
Linguistics:
With an emphasis on interdisciplinary methods, we seek to understand the nature and functions of language and communication in real-life contexts through rigorous, critical examination.
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Zhu Hua
Politics and International Relations:
Students to follow their research interests in a pathway with a distinctive emphasis determined by focus and methodological approach.
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Dermot Hodson
Law and Socio-legal Studies:
Birkbeck Law has a reputation for pioneering new fields of legal scholarship offering a strong critical, theoretically-driven and dynamic research culture and have a breadth of expertise and research interests
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Paul Turnbull
Archaeology and Heritage Studies:
Excellent research in disciplines including Archaeological Practice, Cultural Heritage Studies, Heritage Studies, Public Archaeology, Heritage Science and Sustainable Heritage.
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Jen Baird
Economic and Social History:
Focusing on the relationship between society, the economy and power, state formation and emergent fields such as educational history, healthcare, environmental history and technology and material/consumer culture
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Jessica Reinisch
Psychosocial Studies:
An interdisciplinary field drawing on critical frameworks to study the interconnections between individual subjectivities, group identities, and historical and contemporary social and political formations. 
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Margarita Palacios
Gender and Sexuality:
Expertise in the areas of gender and: international development, psychosocial studies and sociology, law, media and cultural studies, and sexuality and history.
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Rosie Cox
Sociology:
A range of sociological perspectives and emphasising interdisciplinarity, with wide thematic reach; innovative and rigorous methodologies; a global outlook; and a commitment to ‘critical’, theory-building research
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Stephen Frosh
Human Geography:
Birkbeck offers particular expertise in critical human geography and environmental geography.  Birkbeck will be involved in collaborative projects in this area
Full description: (Link to full text) Contact: Rosie Cox
To apply for the programme you need to initially apply to the institution and then to be invited to apply for the ESRC programme
Please contact the people listed above for more detailed information