Law PhD Studentships

In regards to the programme

The Division of Regulation is providing two PhD studentships for PhD candidates making use of to begin their analysis research in October 2023.

The Studentship will cowl: a full price waiver for dwelling charges (worldwide candidates are additionally eligible, the worth of the award can be equal to the worth of dwelling charges); an annual tax-free stipend of £18,000 & analysis coaching and basic analysis allowance to attend analysis coaching and tutorial conferences. Funding is out there for 3 years.

In regards to the Division

Goldsmiths Regulation MPhil/PhD candidates are given excellent alternatives to discover trendy authorized phenomena of their quickly altering socio-political, cultural, & financial context.

Goldsmiths is thought for its tutorial strengths within the inventive arts, humanities, and social sciences; its distinctive deal with public & group engagement; the excellent alumni from each technology of scholars; and its ground-breaking multi-disciplinary analysis. 

Areas of supervision

Whereas the Regulation Division is positioned to help doctoral analysis in any space of curiosity that engages with human rights and social justice, we’d significantly welcome functions for analysis proposals which align with, and have the potential to contribute to, the Division’s core analysis themes of 1) Energy, regulation and the social media and a pair of) Applied sciences, rights and freedoms.

Proposals may deal with points within the following areas:

• Improperly obtained proof, suspects’ rights, proof obtained in violation of the suitable to privateness, & adversarial/non-adversarial approaches to regulating the felony course of extra broadly.
• The influence of Euroscepticism, populism and Brexit on human rights.
• Susceptible suspects & defendants, police custody, efficient participation and unfitness to plead.
• Sustainability, environmental and local weather justice, fairness, biodiversity loss & pure sources, theories of sovereignty, and cultural identification.
• Huge knowledge, synthetic intelligence, know-how, & human rights.
• The intersection between mental property regulation and new know-how.
• Important views upon human rights.
• Interplay between household regulation and counter-terrorism within the UK.
• The intersection of gender, sexuality, and cultures of drug use.
• The interplay and interaction between Competitors Regulation and different areas, corresponding to knowledge safety.
• Gender and feminist approaches to worldwide regulation broadly or particularly, worldwide felony regulation, in addition to gender or feminist views on the spectrum of peace and battle.
• Worldwide regulation, queer-feminist authorized approaches, sports activities regulation.
• Well being and human rights, regulation concept, and gender research.

Cross-disciplinary analysis

The Division of Regulation works carefully with different main departments in our Faculty of Tradition & Society: Anthropology; Historical past; Media, Communications and Cultural Research; Politics & Worldwide Relations; and Sociology.

We’re enthusiastic in the direction of the prospect of candidates being co-supervised by colleagues in these departments and/or collaborating with different Goldsmiths Departments that might enable candidates to specialize in cross-disciplinary fields within the broader space of Regulation and Society, enabling the cross-fertilisation of Regulation with disciplines corresponding to Artwork, Theatre, Design, Artistic and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Administration Research, Economics, Computing and different areas.

The way to Apply

For additional particulars concerning the PhD studentships https://www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding/scholarships/law-phd-studentships/

To use, please the ‘Apply’ button, above.

Enquiries could also be addressed to Dr Aysem Diker Vanberg (a.dikervanberg)@gold.ac.uk

Please submit your software along with your MPhil/PhD Regulation software by together with the next paperwork:

• Motivation letter (1 web page most) describing your analysis pursuits, causes for selecting this mission, and relevance of your background to the mission
• CV (embody details about {qualifications} and any educating and/or analysis expertise)
• Copies of transcripts, certificates and diplomas
• Publications (if any), and, the place relevant, a replica of your thesis
• Contact particulars of two referees