· Web [email protected]), and Elaine Unterhalter ([email protected]). Urban Planning and Project Management Pathway Leader: Yvonne Rydin < [email protected] >

UCL, Bloomsbury and East London DTP: Pathway Leaders and Teams by Grouping

1) Health and WelfareDemography

Pathway Leader: Rebecca Sear <[email protected]>

Team members: Lynda Clarke <[email protected]>

Description:The UCL, Bloomsbury and East London DTP includes one of the UK’s leading centres for research in demography and population studies at LSHTM. The School is host to a highly interdisciplinary and internationally renowned group of researchers, who work on a wide range of population issues, in both low and high income contexts. We have strong programmes of research in maternal, reproductive and sexual health, the demographic impact and mathematical modelling of the AIDS epidemic in Africa, family demography, evolutionary demography, health inequalities, global health and the burden of disease. Our methods span quantitative techniques, including advanced demographic and statistical methods, and qualitative work; and we work on both basic and applied research.

Demography pathway students may take one of two routes - Demography or Reproductive & Sexual Health Research – which are available full-time or part-time, and as 1+3, +3 or +4 studentships. Additionally, the Demography route offers the opportunity for students to spend a year at the European Doctoral School of Demography (http://www.eds-demography.org), which provides excellent training in the quantitative methods used in demography. We currently host several Advanced Quantitative Methods students, though not all our students do highly quantitative projects. While many demographers at the School are based in the Population Studies Group (https://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/population/)) in the Department of Population Health, Demography pathway students have the opportunity to be supervised by relevant supervisors in other departments; there are also opportunities for students to be co-supervised by appropriate staff members at other institutions within the DTP. For the Demography pathway, initial applications need to be submitted by 9th January (see LSHTM website for initial application form, to be posted in November: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/funding/researchfunding.html). Please contact pathway leader Dr Rebecca Sear ([email protected]) for more details.

Health and Wellbeing

Pathway Leader: Andrew Hutchings <[email protected]>

Team members: Simon Cohn <[email protected]>Jonathan Smith <[email protected]>Corinne Squire <[email protected]>

Description:The Health and Wellbeing pathway involves LSHTM, Birkbeck and UEL and offers three training routes. The Health Economics and the Social Science Approaches in Public Health & Health

Services Research routes are based at LSHTM and are available as 1+3, +3 or +4 studentships. The Psychological Approaches to Health & Wellbeing route is based at Birkbeck and 1+3 and +3 studentships are available. Co-supervision and training in qualitative methods, particularly narrative research, is available at UEL. LSHTM has a global reputation for public health research in high-, middle-, and low-income settings and the Faculty of Public Health and Policy – which is made up of three large interdisciplinary departments and over 150 social scientists – conducts a wide range of research using the full spectrum of quantitative and qualitative approaches. Large official research centres reflect the thematic orientation (e.g. the Centre for Evaluation, the Gender Violence and Health Centre). Birkbeck’s Department of Psychological Sciences complements the work conducted at LSHTM and has world class researchers in the psychology of health and wellbeing, offering a wide range of methodological expertise. Within the department there are two principal research groups in health and wellbeing. The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Research Group acts as a hub for a wide range of national and international activities and resources, and conducts research in the psychology of health and wellbeing. The Institute for the Study of Children, Families, and Social Issues conducts major funded evaluations of programmes and policy initiatives that address national and international priorities in education, child and family health, and parenting support aimed at providing evidence to inform social policy. The Centre for Narrative Research at UEL is the leading centre for narrative work in the social sciences. The centre runs ‘narrative methods’ training days and symposia and several Masters level modules in narrative research and analysis.

For LSHTM routes potential applicants should email [email protected]. Other contacts will confirmed shortly.

Lifecourse and Social Epidemiology

Pathway Leader: Anne McMunn <[email protected]>

Team members: Annie Britton <[email protected]>

Description:Students in the Life Course and Social Epidemiology pathway will apply social epidemiological perspectives to the study of social, psychological and biological factors as they develop over the life course and how they contribute to health, disease and wellbeing. Students will use quantitative techniques to conduct secondary analysis of longitudinal cohort and panel studies. Studentships in this pathway will be based within the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology). The department is a global leader in social epidemiological research, as evidenced by our outstanding 2014 REF results (46% 4* with 160FTE staff submitted). We are a friendly, thriving multi-disciplinary department whose aim is to develop a better understanding of health, wellbeing and prevention of ill health through rigorous population research and the development of research methodology. The department has a legacy of research into the social determinants of health and health inequalities and its interdisciplinary nature facilitates collaborative research encompassing social, health and biological perspectives. Students will work within one of the following research groups: the ESRC International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society & Health; the Whitehall II Study of civil servants; the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing (which houses the MRC National Health and Development Study 1946 birth cohort); the Central and Eastern Europe health research group (which houses the Health,

Alcohol and Psychosocial factors in Eastern Europe study), and the Health and Social Surveys group (which houses the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, the census-based Longitudinal Study and the Health Surveys of England and Scotland). +3 and 1+3 studentships are available. Students who enter as 1+3 will study for the MSc in Health and Society: Social Epidemiology for the ‘1’ component of their 1+3 studentship.

Mental Health and Mental Health Care

Pathway Leader: Claudia Cooper <[email protected]>

Team members: Sonia Johnson <[email protected]>

Description:The UCL Division of Psychiatry is a major national and international centre for the study of aetiology and management of mental health problems. It has a large postgraduate community, with strong relationships between senior staff, postgraduate students and researchers. Our multidisciplinary group supervises quantitative and qualitative; social psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology and sociology studies.

Students will be supported to develop a doctoral project in one of our areas of expertise, which include: Development and testing of psychosocial interventions to improve outcomes, well-being and

experiences of care among mental health service users Quality of life among adults with severe mental health problems, including the roles of

housing, loneliness and social support, physical illness and violent victimisation and bullying. Social determinants of mental health and relationships between ethnic group, gender,

sexuality and mental health. Quality of life, mental health, wellbeing and care and treatment of people with dementia and

their family carers; and elder abuse. The clinical and social needs of people with advanced dementia and psychological treatment in

advanced cancer.

Students who enter as 1+3 will study for one of our MScs [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/study-here]. PhD students will be supported by a supervisory panel of 3-4 academics with differing, relevant expertise, and an individual mentor. How to apply: Send a recent cv (up to 4 A4 sides) and a personal statement explaining why you want to study for a PhD in the division of psychiatry, and outlining your proposed broad area of study to [email protected]. Please contact Claudia at an early stage if you intend to submit an application. We would also encourage you to contact potential supervisors in your proposed area of study [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/study-here/researchdegrees]. Students who are successful at this preliminary stage will be supported to develop a full proposal, for submission by 3/2/17.

2) Economic and quantitative analysis Economics

Pathway Leaders: Ian Preston <[email protected]>Yunus Aksoy <[email protected]>

Team members: Ron Smith <[email protected]>

Description:The Department of Economics at University College London (UCL) and the Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics (EMS) at Birkbeck provide exceptionally strong and complementary expertise in the field of economics and finance, and have been centrally involved in the operation of the UCL and Bloomsbury DTCs.

Students should apply independently to programmes at UCL and at Birkbeck. Applications will be scrutinised within the two institutions prior to agreement on joint evaluation.

Birkbeck and UCL have a long-established practice of collaborating in PhD training through their Bloomsbury PhD programme, and aim to strengthen these links over the lifetime of the DTP, increasing the range of advanced training modules available to students of both institutions. Contributors from both institutions to teaching on the training pathways have backgrounds in economics, econometrics, statistics, mathematics and computational methods. Hence the Economics pathway will be able to provide substantial training to students in other pathways and groupings, such as Economic and Social History, Education, Health and Wellbeing, Interdisciplinary Area Studies, International Development, Politics, Psychology, Quantitative Social Science, and Social and Policy Studies of Energy and Environment. There is substantial scope for co-supervision, both within the pathway and with International Development, Psychology, and Quantitative Social Science. Birkbeck also has longstanding collaborative arrangements for advanced doctoral training with other London Colleges.

The Economics pathway offers three routes, all of which aim to provide research training at the international frontier, enabling graduates to conduct research of high academic merit and to make original contributions to the subject. All three routes are available in both 1+3 and +3 structures which formed part of provision within the UCL and Bloomsbury DTCs. The 1+3 Economics route at UCL provides core training through the MRes Economics, a highly structured programme with research training comparable to top-10 US economics departments. Entering students are required to hold an MSc in economics with substantial training in economic theory and methods, at a level equivalent to the UCL MSc in Economics/Economic Policy. The programme then provides substantial further subject-specific training in theory and methods, and does so for both full-time and part-time students. At Birkbeck, students on the 1+3 routes in Economics/Financial Economics and Finance/Mathematical Finance are trained in their first year through the MScs in Economics or Financial Economics; and Finance, Financial Engineering or Financial Risk Management respectively.

Quantitative Social Science

Pathway Leader: Lorraine Dearden <[email protected]>

Team members: Ruth Keogh <[email protected]>

Description:Both the Department of Social Science (DSS) at UCL IOE and the Department of Medical Statistics (DMS) at LSHTM have international reputations in applied quantitative and statistical methods for social sciences as well as health science data.

The QSS pathway offers two routes, Quantitative Research Methods, and Longitudinal Analysis and Design, which are based on provision within the current Bloomsbury DTC. As there, the first will be available in 1+3, +3 and +4 structures, with core training for the 1+3 and +4 options provided by the UCL IOE MSc in Quantitative Research Methods. The +4 structure will involve students taking the taught elements of the MSc without a dissertation, alongside the initial stages of their programme of doctoral research. The Longitudinal Analysis and Design route is only available as a +3 option due to the specifically medical orientation of the MSc in Medical Statistics.

Students should apply independently to programmes at UCL (Lorraine Dearden <[email protected]>) and at LSHTM (Ruth Keogh <[email protected]>). Applications will be scrutinised within the two institutions prior to agreement on joint evaluation.

DSS has a large group of researchers specialising in applying quantitative methods to large, complex datasets to inform policy on education, health, labour markets, the lifecourse and child/adult wellbeing (very broadly defined). Any topics in this broad area would be welcome. Staff have leading expertise in applied economics, sociology, psychology, epidemiology, social statistics, econometric and statistical modelling, and the techniques of policy evaluation. DSS hosts a number of research and resource centres. The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) is an ESRC Resource Centre managing three of Britain’s world renowned birth cohorts: the 1958 National Child Development Study, the 1970 British Cohort Study, and the Millennium Cohort Study as well as the Next Steps cohort. It also hosts the ESRC funded Cohorts and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources Programme (CLOSER), a collaboration between nine separate cohorts and longitudinal studies. DSS is also a partner in the ESRC funded Administrative Data Research Centre England (ADRCE) and also manages the collection and analysis of OECD’s TALIS and PISA surveys for England in 2013 and 2015 respectively.

At LSHTM, topics of expertise include missing data, longitudinal data, causal inference, and structural equation modelling. Staff make the major contribution to the Royal Statistical Society accredited MSc in Medical Statistics, which includes a broad quantitative methods core appropriate for both social and medical data. The MSc is part of the provision within the LSHTM/St Georges MRC DTP, but advanced quantitative courses from it will also be available to students on the QSS pathway. The Department is home to the Trials Coordination Group and the Centre for Statistical Methodology. DMS undertakes broad-based research in applied projects and in statistical methodology. Some of the key methodological work on missing data undertaken at LSHTM has used the cohort studies which are housed at UCL IOE in DSS. Much of the

Department's research can be classified under four broad areas: statistical methodology, epidemiological statistics, clinical trials, and pharmaco-epidemiology.

Students in the QSS pathway will benefit from a stimulating research environment that offers a range of activities taking place in close geographical proximity. The pathway will draw on major strengths in methodology and application of quantitative methods, via collaboration of the QSS, CLOSER and CLS groups in the DSS at UCL IOE and the DMS at LSHTM. This expertise provides cutting-edge training, enabling students to address questions key to ESRC’s Research Challenges. Our student intake has a very broad range of prior quantitative skills. We recruit both students with only a modest base in statistics, thus playing a major training role in fields where such skills are in short supply in the social sciences (e.g. education and sociology), but at the same time cater for students with a strong maths or statistics background who wish to do social science or public health research, including on frontier methods. Students are almost always supervised by quantitative experts who come from different disciplines, which allows them to develop a very broad understanding of quantitative methods across the social sciences and public health. This means that they have a wide range of career options once they complete their PhD and this is not necessarily restricted to the field of their undergraduate studies. Our most recently completed DTC student has just received a prestigious job offer from the London School of Economics and has had 3 PhD papers accepted/published in high ranking social science journals.

Both QSS pathway routes and all structures are available to part-time students.

3) Cognition, language and learning

Education

Pathway Leader: Claudia Lapping <[email protected]>

Team members: Sarah Crafter <[email protected]> Will Gibson <[email protected]> Christine Han <[email protected]>Rob Higham <[email protected]> Andrew Jenkins <[email protected]> Phil Jones <[email protected]> Maria Kambouri <[email protected]> Jane Perryman <[email protected]> Tom Woodin <[email protected]>

Description:The study of education within the UCL, Bloomsbury and East London DTP takes place in a research rich environment combining methodological and conceptual innovation with engaged projects that have impact on local, national and international policy and practice. Much research activity is managed through more than 45 research centres. These include: the UCL Knowledge Lab (Leading interdisciplinary digital research and design in education); the Thomas Coram Research Unit (specialists in researching children and families that are most vulnerable to economic and social adversity); the Social Science Research Unit; the Centre for Global Higher Education; the Centre for Learning and Life Chances in the Knowledge Economies and Societies; the Centre for Holocaust Education; the Centre for Research and Evaluation in Muslim Education; the Development Education Research Centre; the International Centre for Education and Democratic Citizenship, the London Centre for Leadership and Learning, the Centre for Digital Arts Research in Education, and the Centre for Critical Education Policy Studies. This vast range of research provides opportunities for disciplinary and interdisciplinary doctoral work supported by the most relevant and expert supervision. The Education pathway offers a single route, which will be available in 1+3, +3 and +4 structures (or part time equivalents). Students following a 1+3 structure will begin with the MRes in Educational and Social Research. The +4 structure will involve students taking only the taught elements of the MRes ESR, without a dissertation, within the Integrated MPhil/PhD programme. There is an extensive, well established Doctoral Training Programme for the later stages that includes more than 19 introductory courses and a similar number of advanced methodological and theoretical options. Potential PhD students should apply first (by 1 December 2016) to the department of their choice using the normal application procedure. For guidance see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/courses/graduate-research/find-a-supervisorEligible departments at UCL Institute of Education are: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment; Culture, Communication and Media; Education, Practice and Society; Learning and Leadership; Social Science: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/courses/graduate-research

Selected applicants will then have the opportunity to complete the DTP application process by 3 February 2017.

Psychology

Pathway Leader: Michael Thomas <[email protected]>

Team members: Emily Farran <[email protected]>Mark McDermott <[email protected]>Paul Marshall <[email protected]>

Description:Within the Psychology Pathway, training is represented across three institutions, and a number of departments. Within Birkbeck (BBK), there is the Department of Psychological Sciences. Within the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), there is the Department of Psychology and Human Development. Within the University of East London (UEL), there is the School of Psychology within which are groupings in cognition & neuroscience, addiction, and developmental, health and social psychology. Within UCL, there are four research departments in the Faculty of Brain Sciences within the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences: Experimental Psychology (EP), the UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology (CEHP), and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN). Some research centres additionally straddle other UCL departments (Computer Science in the case of UCLIC and the Institute of Neurology in the case of the ICN). All these departments have an intensive research focus, with highly visible and internationally leading outputs and facilities, considerable external research income and extensive national and international research collaborations with other institutions. The component departments together offer a wide range of state-of-the-art research facilities, including equipment for multimodal behavioural testing, auditory and visual psychophysics, eye-movement recordings, infant testing, and brain imaging. The Psychology pathway offers great breadth, with interlocking areas of strength in development, education, social change, language, cognition, neuroscience, and computation. Thirteen training routes are available, including Clinical and Health Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Modelling, Deafness and Sign Language, Decision and Cognitive Sciences, Psychology of Education, Developmental Sciences, Educational Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Occupational and Organisational Psychology, Psychology and Social Change, Social Psychology. Both FT and PT +3 and 1+3 structures are available across all routes, and 2+3 and +4 across some. Specific Masters programmes are aligned with training routes, including some options across institutions. Interested students should approach relevant possible supervisors at any of our partner institutions to discuss their proposed research projects in the first instance; alternatively, interested students should contact a representative within the relevant department: Birkbeck: Prof. Michael Thomas ([email protected]); UCL Institute of Education: Prof. Emily Farran ([email protected]); UCL: Dr. Paul Marshall ([email protected]); UEL: Prof Mark McDermott ([email protected]).

Linguistics

Pathway Leaders: Paul Iverson <[email protected]> Li Wei <[email protected]>

Team members: Anne Pauwels <[email protected]> Zhu Hua <[email protected]>

Description: Linguistics training is based in UCL, Birkbeck and SOAS, covering a broad range of specialisms from experimental speech and language sciences, quantitative and corpus linguistics, fieldwork-based language documentation and description, language acquisition and disorders, to critical discourse analysis, language policy and practice, language education and intercultural communication. Together we represent one of the largest, if not the largest, groupings in Linguistics in the UK and the world. With an emphasis on interdisciplinarity, we are united in our commitment to understanding how human beings in diverse linguistic and cultural contexts communicate and develop their linguistic and communicative competence to meet the challenges of the multilingual world, thus providing ample opportunities for joint supervision. The Linguistics Pathway offers nine routes distributed across the three partners, including 1+3, +3 and +4 structures offered on both a full-time and part-time basis. All have advanced research training components, including quantitative methods training. Interested students should first approach potential supervisors or graduate tutors at the relevant institution. For more information, please contact the partner college in the first instance:

Birkbeck: Professor Zhu Hua: [email protected]: Professor Anne Pauwels: [email protected] (Applied Linguistics): Professor Li Wei: [email protected] (Language and Cognition): Dr Merle Mahon, [email protected] (Linguistics): Prof Robyn Carston, [email protected] (Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences): Prof Paul Iverson, [email protected]

4) Political and judicial processesPolitics and International Relations

Pathway Leader: Dermot Hodson <[email protected]>

Team members: Alastair Fraser <[email protected]>Lauge Poulsen <[email protected]>

Description:Bloomsbury’s Politics and International Relations pathway brings together three departments with world-class reputations for research excellence: Birkbeck’s Department of Politics, the School of Oriental and African Studies’ Department of Politics and International Studies and UCL’s Department of Political Science/School of Public Policy. Together, these departments span more subfields of politics and international relations and more geographical foci than any other ESRC doctoral training partnership in the UK. Between 2008-2013, the three departments had in excess of £4.7 million in research funded by the ESRC, AHRC, EC and other bodies, and supervised more than 80 doctoral students to successful completion. The Politics and International Relations pathway offers five routes: Politics, Global Politics, Public Policy and Management, Politics and International Studies, and Political Science. Each has a distinctive emphasis determined by focus and methodological approach, allowing students to follow disciplinary and methods training in accordance with their research interests. All will be available in 1+3 and +3 structures, and there is also a +4 option for students who have a new or difficult language to learn. In addition to provision within individual departments, students following the Politics and International Relations pathway will have the opportunity to take modules across Birkbeck, SOAS and UCL. Potential applicants must apply first to the department of their choice (by 1 December 2016) using the normal application procedure to their MPhil/PhD programmes. Applicants are encouraged to make contact with the relevant PhD programme director well in advance of this deadline to discuss their application: Dr Dermot Hodson ([email protected]), Dr Alastair Fraser ([email protected]) and Dr Lauge Poulsen ([email protected]).

Interdisciplinary Area Studies

Pathway Leader: Felix Ciuta <[email protected]>

Team members: TBC

Description:The Interdisciplinary Area Studies pathway is delivered mainly by the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), an internationally renowned interdisciplinary School engaged in language-based research and teaching which spans a range of disciplines across the social sciences, arts and humanities. SSEES research covers Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and Russia, with theoretical, comparative and empirical expertise that expands beyond the geographical region of its remit. The IAS PhD programme allows doctoral students to access a wide range of expertise in economics, politics, and sociology, facilitating discipline-based but also genuinely innovative interdisciplinary research combined with the provision of training in an unrivalled number of languages from the region (14). In political science and sociology, the SSEES

strengths lie especially in the study of post-conflict and post-socialist societies, democratic transitions, party politics, corruption, migration, transitional justice, identity politics, urban studies, political sociology, international relations and foreign policy. In economics, strengths lie especially in the study of poverty and well-being, corporate governance and finance and their role in economic development, privatisation, entrepreneurship, technology and innovation, empirical macroeconomic modelling and inflation forecasting. UCL SSEES offers 1+3, 2+3 and +3 pathways, with all elements available full or part-time. Cross-disciplinary supervision and training is particularly encouraged. Applicants are encouraged to contact as early as possible possible supervisors from SSEES, or the Pathway leader, Dr Felix Ciută ([email protected]). The deadline for the first stage of applications is 1 December 2016, using the normal application procedure. Selected applicants will then have the opportunity to complete the DTP application process by 3 February 2017.

Law and Socio-legal Studies

Pathway Leader: Paul Turnbull <[email protected]>

Team members: Philippe Cullet <[email protected]>Nathan Moore <[email protected] > Fareda Banda <[email protected]>

Description:Law, Socio-legal Studies and Criminology in the consortium are based within the School of Law at Birkbeck and SOAS. Together they are nationally and internationally renowned centres of legal and criminological scholarship, both within the top 10 law schools in the UK. Birkbeck Law has a reputation for pioneering new fields of legal scholarship offering a strong critical, theoretically-driven and dynamic research culture. SOAS Law has unmatched expertise in national legal systems of the developing world and the relationship between law globalisation and the enduring colonial heritage, as well as comparative, transnational and international law. Staff in the Schools have a breadth of expertise and research interests including: law and architecture; law and aesthetics; law and psychoanalysis; theological origins of legal thought; law and evidential image; critical criminology and criminal justice; corruption and political violence; postcolonial legal criticism; critical race theory; human rights; economic and commercial law; law and development; dispute resolution; environmental law; law and gender; regional and religious laws; and law, culture and society. The Law and Socio-legal Studies pathway offers three routes covering different aspects of our research, two based at Birkbeck, Socio-legal Studies (Human Rights) and Criminology, and one at SOAS, Law. All will be available to DTP students in 1+3 and +3 structures. All 1+3 structures will be based on flexible MRes programmes that are either in place now or will be by 2017, allowing students to follow disciplinary and methods training in accordance with their research interests. Potential applicants should apply first to the department of their choice (by 6th January 2017) using the normal application procedure. They are encouraged to contact possible supervisors and pathway leads: Birkbeck Paul Turnbull ([email protected]) and SOAS Philippe Cullet ([email protected]).

5) Cities, environment and development Human Geography

Pathway Leader: Alan Ingram <[email protected]>

Team members: Tariq Jazeel <[email protected]>Helen Bennion <[email protected]> Rosie Cox <[email protected]>

Description:The Human Geography pathway is based in UCL Department of Geography, a world-leading centre for geographical research, teaching and public engagement. The pathway reflects the interdisciplinary orientation of much geographical research and the department is a leading centre for interdisciplinary and cross-RCUK research training. We welcome applications across the discipline, particularly where proposed projects complement our existing areas of research strength. Advanced (+3) training is also available through co-supervision with colleagues in Birkbeck Department of Geography, Environment and Development Studies.

Research interests of particular relevance to ESRC address:

a) Culture and Migration (aligned with the MSc Global Migration)b) Environment, Politics and Society (aligned with the MSc Environment, Politics and Society) c) Geospatial Analytics and Computing (aligned with the MSc Geographic Information Science and MSc Geospatial Analysis) d) Global Urbanisms (linked with the cross-disciplinary MSc Urban Studies)

Four routes through the pathway are available in both 1+3 and +3 structures. On 1+3 routes, students pursue core research methods training appropriate to their programme. Advanced training is provided through close collaboration with supervisors, with further support provided to multidisciplinary research students through supervision by Geography academics working in environmental sciences including through joint supervision of ESRC-NERC multidisciplinary studentships. Specialised advanced training in Big Data and geospatial analytics is available through integration with the ESRC Consumer Data Research Centre.

Potential applicants through the Human Geography Pathway should in the first instance contact potential supervisors to discuss project ideas, copying the Pathway Leader (<[email protected]>) into correspondence.

Urban Studies, Transport and Architectural Space

Pathway Leader: Andrew Harris <[email protected]>

Team members: Nicola Christie <[email protected]>Ed Manley <[email protected]>Kerstin Sailer <[email protected]>Laura Vaughan <[email protected]>

Description:The Urban Studies, Transport and Architectural Space pathway undertakes methodologically innovative, cross-disciplinary research into cities, the built environment and complex urban socio-spatial phenomena. The pathway is comprised of four Departments and Centres at UCL: the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), the Urban Laboratory, the Space Syntax Laboratory and the Transport Institute. It has six intersecting main areas of activity that directs its research: 1. Housing and spatial justice 2. Transport and mobility 3. Ecology, health and metabolism 4. Change and crisis 5. Imagination, design and architectural space 6. Data and places This pathway equips students with a rich tool set for interdisciplinary analysis of social and spatial issues, drawing on innovative methodological expertise across quantitative and qualitative domains. +3 and 1+3 studentships are available, for both full and part-time students. Potential PhD students should liaise first (by 16 December 2016) with the following members of staff, dependent on the primary supervisor and/or MSc programme being applied to: UCL Urban Lab; MSc Urban Studies – Dr Andrew Harris <[email protected]> UCL CASA; MSc Smart Cities and Urban Analytics, MSc Spatial Data Science and Visualisation – Dr Ed Manley <[email protected]> UCL Space Syntax; MSc Spatial Design: Architecture and Cities – Professor Laura Vaughan <[email protected]> UCL Transport Institute; MSc Transport Planning, MSc Transport – Dr Nicola Christie <[email protected]>

International Development

Pathway Leader: Alfredo Saad Filho <[email protected]>

Team members: Dina Balabanova <[email protected]>Colin Marx <[email protected]> Melissa Parker <[email protected]>Peter Sammonds <[email protected]>Dimitra Stamogiannou <[email protected]>Meera Tiwari <[email protected]> Elaine Unterhalter <[email protected]>

Description:The International Development (ID) pathway draws upon London’s unique concentration of academic institutions, funding agencies and local and international NGOs to offer an unrivalled concentration of expertise in and around ID. All participating institutions are strongly committed to interdisciplinary qualitative and quantitative research and fieldwork, and seek to contribute to policymaking in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Research is rooted in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, culture and media studies, economics, education, epidemiology, gender and sexuality studies, geography, mathematics, medicine, political ecology, policy analysis, political economy, political science, sociology, and sustainability and climate change. This approach to research and policy intervention allows us to produce scholarship that blends innovative approaches with rigorous empirical analysis across a range of contexts. Within these parameters, each institution retains distinctive strengths:· The SOAS Departments of Development Studies and Economics are internationally recognised

for their distinctive and original approaches to the political economy of development, violence and conflict, migration, political ecology, and related topics.

· The UCL Development Planning Unit (DPU) is one of the foremost development planning schools in the anglophone world. The DPU’s research agenda focuses on social, physical, economic and political changes in a globalising and urbanising world, across diversity, social complexity and planned intervention; states and markets; urban transformations; and environmental justice, urbanisation and resilience.

· The UCL Institute for Global Health (IGH) delivers world-class research on global health and development, with particular strengths in women’s, reproductive and children’s health, the health effects of climate change, risk analysis, and the health of vulnerable populations.

· The UCL Institute of Education (IOE) offers the largest concentration of research in education and international development in the UK, with specific expertise in gender, migration, health and wellbeing, planning, teacher development, education systems, higher education pedagogies, and critical policy analysis.

· The UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) leads research in risk analysis, vulnerability analysis, disaster preparedness, disaster management and recovery and reconstruction across hazards (from space weather to earthquakes to climate change) and vulnerabilities (from corruption to poverty).

· ID research at UEL is centred in the School of Social Sciences and the Centre for Social Justice and Social Change. Its work is interdisciplinary, with a focus on grassroots organisations, collectives and commons, gender, the third sector, urban and rural poverty, the North-South poverty debates and humanitarian interventions.

· The LSHTM Department of Global Health and Development (GHD) is structured around groups in Anthropology, Politics and Policy (APP), Social and Mathematical Epidemiology (SaME), and

Health Economics and Systems Analysis (HESA). GHD hosts research programmes combining public health, health systems research, health economics, anthropology and policy analysis, and has an international reputation for its work on advancing affordability, equity, and coverage of health care in LMIC, as well as for rigorous evaluation methods to strengthen the policy evidence base.

All routes within the ID pathway are available in 1+3 and +3 structures. All 1+3 structures include an MSc or MRes degree programme with methods training to support doctoral studies, plus a dissertation designed to consolidate students’ learning and provide the opportunity to pilot a PhD project. Development Economics and Education and International Development are also available via +4 Integrated PhDs, in which students take the taught components of the relevant masters alongside their doctoral research. The +3 structure is available to students who have already completed a masters with appropriate training.

Interested students should approach potential supervisors at any of our partner institutions to discuss their research projects in the first instance; alternatively, please contact the DTP representative in the relevant institution: Alfredo Saad Filho ([email protected]), Dina Balabanova ([email protected]), Colin Marx ([email protected]), Melissa Parker ([email protected]), Peter Sammonds ([email protected]), Dimitra Stamogiannou ([email protected]), Jolene Skordis-Worrall ([email protected]), Meera Tiwari ([email protected]), and Elaine Unterhalter ([email protected]).

Urban Planning and Project Management

Pathway Leader: Yvonne Rydin <[email protected]>

Team members: Hedley Smyth <[email protected]> Nick Phelps <[email protected]> Matthew Carmona <[email protected]> John Tomaney <[email protected]> Mike Raco <[email protected]> Grant Mills <[email protected]>

Description: The Bartlett School of Planning (BSP) has been at the forefront of planning research for almost 100 years and is one of the foremost planning schools in the UK. The School of Construction and Project Management [CPM] is an international centre of excellence in the teaching and research of project management and economics. Both sit within the multi-disciplinary Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, providing students with a rich environment of inter-disciplinary study and discourse from which to draw. They have made major contributions to knowledge that range from understanding the fundamentals of urban space, society and development to processes of planning, infrastructure management, governance, regeneration and investment, to analysis of the outcomes from planning as it affects urban quality, culture, sustainability and movement. The BSP’s research is broad and organised into six themes: Sustainable development; Spatial planning; Urban design; Regeneration and development; Transport and infrastructure; and Housing, society and culture. CPM is a leading centre for research on institutional theory applied to multi-public/private organisational coordination, portfolio and programme management for urban

regeneration. Their major research areas are in the management of projects, enterprise management, and the economics and finance of the built environment. Each of the existing Planning Masters courses (MRes and MSc) and the MRes Project Leadership being introduced in 2017 consist of a series of compulsory and optional modules, research methods training and a supervised research dissertation. In order to be considered for a +3 studentship, applicants must have completed or be on track to complete at- or near- ESRC-level research methods training within a Planning or CPM-related MSc. In the first instance, prospective students are asked to contact the Departmental Graduate Tutor in BSP or CPM, depending on their proposed topic (see BSP and CPM web sites for details).

Social and Policy Studies of Energy and the Environment

Pathway Leaders: Michelle Shipworth <[email protected]> Adam Cooper <[email protected]>

Team members: Will McDowall <[email protected]> Arthur Petersen <[email protected] >

Description:This pathway aims to contribute to building a better social science informed evidence base for energy and environment policies, through training applied social scientists. It focuses on the critical social scientific analysis of natural scientific, engineering and social scientific (including economic) evidence production and use, for instance evidence derived from various modelling approaches. The pathway is highly interdisciplinary, bridging two faculties. The sister institutes the UCL Energy Institute (EI) and the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR) are both in the Faculty of the Built Environment, rated as having the UK’s most world-leading research in Architecture, Built Environment and Planning in REF2014; research spans the fields of buildings, transport, energy systems, resources and the environment. The Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP), established in 2013, explores, experiments with, and improves the ways scientific and engineering expertise and knowledge are engaged with in public decision-making and policy processes, focusing on sustainability, urbanisation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, including linkages to development. All departments lead on major research initiatives and collaborations and have close links with many UK government departments, international bodies and industry. The pathway offers one route, in both +4 and +3 structures. Students on the +4 structure will take six core modules including research concepts, communication skills, and four modules covering the core social science and innovation theories pertaining to energy and the environment. The +4 structure also entails taking two elective modules and completing a dissertation research project and the PhD proposal. A +3 structure will be offered where applicants can provide evidence of previous qualifications demonstrating the skills covered in the core modules. Interested students should approach relevant possible social science supervisors in UCL EI, ISR or STEaPP. Applicants should also contact one of the Pathway Leads in order to ensure that departmental and pathway application deadlines are met: EI/ISR: Michelle Shipworth ([email protected]); STEaPP: Dr Adam Cooper ([email protected]).

6) Culture, heritage and historyAnthropology

Pathway Leaders: Allen Abramson <[email protected]> Paul Basu <[email protected]>

Team members: Narmala Halstead <[email protected]>Kevin Latham <[email protected]>

Description:Social and cultural anthropology is represented in the consortium primarily in the Department of Anthropology at UCL and Department of Anthropology & Sociology at SOAS, although there are also anthropologists working in other schools and departments at UCL, SOAS, UEL and LSHTM. Anthropology bridges the social sciences and humanities, and is committed to understanding global issues in local contexts, particularly through the use of ethnographic research methods. The anthropology departments at both UCL and SOAS were both established in the late 1940s and have distinctive profiles. UCL has a large department comprising of four sub-sections biological anthropology, social and cultural anthropology, material culture and medical anthropology. At SOAS anthropology is at the heart of the university, with its regional foci in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and long-standing interdisciplinary connections with development studies, media studies and language training. Academic staff in both departments have wide-ranging expertise in many areas of anthropological inquiry, reflected particularly in the taught postgraduate programmes on offer. Both SOAS and UCL offer a number of PhD pathways, including the ESRC-recognised ‘+3’ and ‘1+3’ pathways; the former intended for students with existing Masters level training in the discipline, the latter including an additional year of pre-fieldwork research methods training taken as a standalone MRes Anthropology (UCL) or MA Anthropological Research Methods (SOAS). Details of these PhD programmes are available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/studying/mphil-phd-anthropology and http://www.soas.ac.uk/anthropology/programmes/phd/. Co-supervision of PhD students across DTP institutions may also be possible.

Archaeology and Heritage Studies

Pathway Leader: Jen Baird <[email protected]> Team members: Beverley Butler <[email protected] > Toby Butler <[email protected]>Kalliopi Fouseki <[email protected]>

Description:Bloomsbury houses institutions recognised internationally for excellent research in archaeological and heritage disciplines and proven excellence at teaching and fostering research in the subjects. Students can approach this funded pathway through 6 training routes, depending on the nature of their research interests and training needs: Archaeological Practice, Cultural Heritage Studies, Heritage Studies, Public Archaeology, Heritage Science and Sustainable Heritage. Students can undertake study either part-time, or full-time, and can enter the doctoral programme either via a

1-year Masters or directly into a PhD. Each of these routes builds on the concentration of academic resources between partnering institutions, including the Institute of Archaeology, Institute for Sustainable Heritage, Raphael Samuel History Centre, and partnerships with the British Museum and Museum of London. Students will carry out cutting-edge research through our active archaeological and heritage field projects both in the UK and across the globe, and will develop their skills through teaching provision across our programme in central London. Interested students should approach relevant possible supervisors at any of our partner institutions to discuss their proposed research projects in the first instance; alternatively, interested students should contact a representative within the relevant department: Birkbeck: Dr Jen Baird ([email protected]); UCL, Institute of Archaeology: Dr Beverley Butler ([email protected]) and Centre for Sustainable Heritage: Dr Kalliopi Fouseki([email protected]); University of East London, Dr Toby Butler ([email protected]). 

Economic and Social History

Pathway Leaders: Thom Rath <[email protected]> Jessica Reinisch <[email protected]>

Team members: Jonathan Bell <[email protected]>Kate Hodgkin <[email protected]>Kate Quinn <[email protected]>

Description:Economic and Social History in the consortium is based primarily within the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck and the Department of History and the Institute of the Americas at UCL. Together they are amongst the most prestigious centres of historical research in the United Kingdom with long-established and world leading reputations for scholarship across the broad range of the discipline. Additional expertise is provided by UEL, which means that there is extensive supervisory capacity and many opportunities for joint supervision, training and research collaboration. History at both Birkbeck and UCL spans time and space - from prehistory to the 21st century, from London to India and China, and from the history of ideas to the history of things. Established strengths include the study of Britain and its empire; medieval, early modern and modern Europe; the Americas; and comparative and transnational history. The breadth of research is matched by a shared focus on key areas of historical enquiry such as the relationship between society, the economy and power, state formation and emergent fields of growing importance such as educational history, healthcare, environmental history and the study of technology and material and consumer culture. All training routes are available in full-time and part-time modes, to fit the varied backgrounds and professional commitments of students. There are two modes of entry either via a 1 year Masters (1+3) or directly on to a PhD (+3). The Birkbeck-based route is available to both 1+3 and +3 students. The UCL Route is offered to +3 structures and UEL will provide +3 supervision in additional specialist areas. Potential applicants should apply first to the department of their choice (by 1 December 2016) using the normal application procedure. They are encouraged to contact possible supervisors at our partner institutions or pathway leads: Birkbeck: Dr Jessica Reinisch ([email protected]); UCL: Dr Thom Rath ([email protected]); UEL: Dr Kate Hodgkin ([email protected]).

7) Social processes, relations and policyPsychosocial Studies

Pathway Leader: Margarita Palacios <[email protected]>

Team members: Stephen Frosh <[email protected]> David Jones <[email protected]>

Description:Psychosocial Studies is a new interdisciplinary field that is concerned with the interconnections between individual subjectivities, group identities, and historical and contemporary social and political formations. Its distinctive approach to research draws on a range of critical frameworks including psychoanalytic theory, social theory, feminist and queer theory, cultural and post-colonial studies and qualitative psychosocial methodologies. Research interests lie in interdisciplinary areas such as violence, state violence and war; intimacy, parenting, care, friendship and love; learning and higher education; human rights, citizenship and social movements; embodiment; communities and collective life; ‘race’ and racism; empire and postcoloniality; religion and diaspora; gender and sexuality; youth and ageing; and mental health and psychotherapy.

The Psychosocial training route is based at BIrkbeck College. Students take two compulsory core ‘methods’ modules, Intermediate Quantitative Social Research and Qualitative Social Research plus two further modules from the discipline-specific masters programmes in Psychosocial Studies or Psychoanalytic Studies.. As part of their subject specific Psychosocial Studies training, students will also participate in the Psychosocial Studies Research Methods course that provides a systematic introduction to psychosocial methodologies (including archival research methods, narrative analysis, discourse analysis and ethnography as well as ethics training).

These modules will all be taken in year 1 of the 1+3 mode (years 1 and 2 of part time study). Students who have already completed a Masters and are accepted onto the +3 mode will still be expected to take the Psychosocial Studies Research Methods course in their first year, and will be encouraged to audit appropriate modules from available programmes.

Potential PhD students should apply by 1 December 2016 to the department of Psychosocial Studies at BIrkbeck (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/2016/phd/programmes/RMPPSYSL/), however there is range of possible inter-institutional supervisory arrangements with UEL and UCL. Selected applicants will then have the opportunity to complete the DTP application process by 3 February 2017.

Sociology

Pathway Leader: Stephen Frosh <[email protected]>

Team members: Giorgia Dona <[email protected]>Jonathan Hardy <[email protected]>Maja Korac <[email protected]> Paul Watt < [email protected] >

Description:Sociology in the UCL, Bloomsbury and East London DTP is highly innovative and unusual, embracing a range of sociological perspectives and particularly emphasising interdisciplinary social research. Its strengths lie in its wide thematic reach; its innovative and rigorous qualitative methodologies; its global outlook; and its commitment to ‘critical’, theory-building research. At both Birkbeck and UEL there has been ground-breaking sociological research utilising psychoanalytically-informed methods and working with narrative and discourse, which has led to the emerging field of psychosocial studies. Sociology in the DTP draws primarily on work at Birkbeck and UEL, although extensive sociological research elsewhere (UCL, SOAS) means that there are considerable joint supervision possibilities.

The sociology training routes are based at Birkbeck and UEL. The Birkbeck training route involves two compulsory core methods modules, Intermediate Quantitative Social Research and Qualitative Social Research, plus two further sociological modules from the wide range of Masters programmes in the Departments of Psychosocial Studies or Geography, Environment and Development Studies. The UEL routes rest on a common core of Qualitative and Quantitative Social Research Methods modules, which parallel Birkbeck modules, alongside core Refugee Studies modules, with options from Arts and Digital Industries and Social Sciences School masters. Supervision for +3 students will also be able to draw in staff working in Media. At both Birkbeck and UEL, the required modules will all be taken in year 1 of the 1+3 mode (years 1 and 2 of part-time study). All formal teaching at Birkbeck and much at UEL is in the evening, making this provision highly suited to part-time students.

Potential PhD students should apply first (by 1 December 2016) to the department of their choice using the normal application procedure. Eligible departments at Birkbeck are Psychosocial Studies; Geography, Environment and Development Studies; Politics; and Film, Media and Culture Studies. At UEL the relevant departments are in the School of Social Sciences and the School of Arts and Digital Industries. Selected applicants will then have the opportunity to complete the DTP application process by 3 February 2017.

Gender and Sexuality

Pathway Leader: Rosie Cox <[email protected]>

Team members: Nadje Al-Ali <[email protected]>Rosie Campbell <[email protected]>Stephen Maddison <[email protected]>Jessica Ringrose <[email protected]>Ruba Salih <[email protected]>Ann Varley <[email protected]>

Description:Gender and Sexuality research in the UCL, Bloomsbury and East London DTP is vibrant and diverse. It is characterised by interdisciplinarity and the innovative use of mixed methods. Expertise within the DTP is provided in the areas of gender and: international development (Birkbeck, SOAS, UCL, UEL); psychosocial studies and sociology (Birkbeck, UCL, UEL); law (Birkbeck, SOAS); media and cultural studies (Birkbeck, SOAS, UCL, UEL); sexuality and history (Birkbeck, UCL, UEL); and education and childhood studies (UCL, UEL). Cross-cutting research themes include issues of gender in social movements, citizenship and participation; the life-course, care, love and home; space, place, nation and the environment; ‘race’/ethnicity, migration, diaspora and belonging; violence, state violence and war; learning and higher education; human rights, journalism and new media; embodiment; communities and collective life; empire and postcoloniality; religion. The consortium members have particular regional expertise in Africa, Asia/Pacific region, the Middle East and Latin America.

The Gender and Sexuality pathway offers 1+3 routes at Birkbeck and UCL IOE, and +3 routes at Birkbeck, SOAS, UCL and UEL. These routes provide robust research training with opportunities for students to follow their diverse interests and training needs. The Birkbeck-based 1+3 route is linked to the MSc Social Research The UCL IOE-based route is linked to the Education, Gender and International Development programmes, which are part of IOE’s extensive education-related provision. Students entering the +3 routes will have already completed a masters involving social science research, and will have received good preliminary training in both quantitative and qualitative research methods, as well as having some background in gender/ sexuality issues. All routes are offered in full-time and part-time modes; the taught component of the Birkbeck-based route is available in the evenings. Potential PhD students should apply first (by 1 December 2016) to the institution of their choice using the normal application procedure. For Birkbeck see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/2016/phd/programmes/RMPGENDR/ For SOAS see https://www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies/pg-in-gender-stud/ For UCL IOE see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/courses/graduate-research For UCL see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/gender-studies/prospective-students/mphil-phd For UEL see https://www.uel.ac.uk/Postgraduate-Research Selected applicants will then have the opportunity to complete the DTP application process by 3 February 2017.

Social Policy

Pathway Leader: Rebecca Rees <[email protected]>

Team members: David Gough <[email protected]>Jan Tripney <[email protected]>

Description:Two ESRC training routes in Social Policy are available for a 2017/18 entry: 1) Evidence for Public Policy and Practice; and 2) Social Policy and Social Research – both based at the Department of Social Science at UCL Institute of Education. Evidence for Public Policy and Practice is an interdisciplinary field of research concerned with the way research evidence is produced to inform decision-making in public policy and professional practice and the engagement of stakeholders in the production, interpretation and scrutiny of research. Its scope ranges across all the social sciences and all areas of public policy. In their PhD study, students could choose to focus on any substantive area, but would be expected to consider, possibly as part of a wider framework of analysis, the role of different approaches for systematically reviewing research literature, or the impacts of diverse stakeholder perspectives on research. Social Policy and Social Research is an interdisciplinary field concerned with extending knowledge about how research interacts with policy and practice; both the direct use of research to make decisions and the broader assimilation of research ideas, concepts and theories into policy discourse and debates. In their PhD study, students could choose to focus on any area of social policy, but would be expected to consider, possibly as part of a wider framework of analysis, the interplay between research and social policy or professional practice.

1+3 or +3 studentships are available. 1+3 students will start their studies with either the MSc Systematic Reviews for Public Policy and Practice (Pathway 1) or the MSc Social Policy and Social Research (Pathway 2). Interested applicants should, in the first instance, make contact with a potential supervisor from within UCL IOE’s Department of Social Science, identifying which Social Policy studentship training route is of most interest. Further guidance here http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/courses/graduate-research/social-science-mphil-phd .

Science and Technology Studies

Pathway Leader: Brian Balmer <[email protected]>

Team members: Chiara Ambrosio <[email protected]>

Description:The Science & Technology Studies (STS) pathway is based primarily in UCL’s Department of Science & Technology Studies, which has an international reputation for outstanding interdisciplinary work in history, philosophy and social studies of science. Its key strengths within the remit of the ESRC are (i) public engagement with science (ii) history of 20th century science and science policy and (iii) science and technology governance. The department is the largest of its type in the UK, in terms of full-time permanent staff, and offers a full range of undergraduate and post-graduate courses and degree programmes and contributes to other courses across UCL. Recent and on-

going research in the department includes: theorising, measuring and building capacity for ‘responsible research and innovation’; the history of computing; history of natural history and evolutionary biology; history of the ‘brain drain’ debate; equity in informal science learning; history and governance of military technology; sociology of geoengineering research; public attitudes to new energy technologies; and the history and sociology of economics. Staff maintain considerable links with user communities such as relevant government departments, museums, natural scientists and science-related NGOs. This vibrant research and teaching environment offers students highly interdisciplinary training that equips them to address several ESRC strategic challenges. We are also extremely well-placed to co-supervise students across departments, with recent examples including co-supervision with Anthropology, Geography, Psychology and Security and Crime Science. It is notable that many of our PhD students, and most ESRC-funded PhD students, supervised or co-supervised by the STS department who graduated in the past decade, have continued to academic careers or academic-related science policy careers. The pathway offers two routes that cover different aspects of STS, both in 1+3 and +3 structures. The 1+3 structures are based on the MSc in Science, Technology & Society and MSc History and Philosophy of Science. The field of STS is both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary and students enrolling on this pathway come from a wide range of disciplines. Many have little or no background in social sciences or humanities. Consequently, conversion training is required to enable all students to acquire the relevant competencies and understandings. Students entering the +3 structure are required to demonstrate that they have received equivalent training already, via an MSc or an MA in STS.

Prospective students are encouraged to make preliminary informal enquiries with potential supervisors within the Pathway. For Pathway-specific enquiries please contact the interim Pathway Lead, Prof. Brian Balmer ([email protected]). For general enquiries about applying to the Science & Technology Studies Department for graduate studies contact our Graduate Tutor, Dr Chiara Ambrosio ([email protected]). See www.ucl.ac.uk/sts for details of the UCL Science & Technology Studies Department.