PhD Studentship

College of Southampton

The studentship features a stipend of £18,622, tuition charges (UK/Abroad) and remuneration for instructing in accordance with the demonstrator price of the College.

Full Time

Closing Date:  13 September 2023

Interviews:  week commencing 25 September 2023

Beginning date: 1 October 2023

Southampton Legislation College is a worldwide Legislation College, firmly rooted within the UK with a mission to reply to the best international challenges that humanity faces. We have now a sturdy internationalisation agenda and as a Legislation College in a Russell Group College (QS ranked 78th) we’re dedicated to research-driven authorized educationas effectively as engaged, progressive and impactful scholarship. Southampton Legislation College was ranked sixteenth within the UK in REF2021 for outputs. This locations us within the high 25% of Legislation Faculties within the UK, with 81% of all outputs submitted thought-about to be “world-leading” or “internationally wonderful”. Our triple helix strategy (individuals, training, analysis and enterprise) accentuates the worth of our individuals and exemplifies our fixed pursuit of solidarity and social cohesion amongst employees members, who comprise a various worldwide cohort of famend main in addition to early profession researchers.

Our analysis centres function important clusters for the achievement of our targets.The seven centres are the Legislation and Know-how Centre; Property, Folks and Group Centre; Personal and Business Legislation Centre; Institute for Maritime Legislation (IML); Worldwide Legislation and Globalisation Centre; World Constitutionalism Centre; in addition to the Stefan Cross Centre for Girls, Equality and Legislation.

A vibrant PhD neighborhood is integral to the success of our College. We, due to this fact, now search to construct on our current sturdy analysis atmosphere by inviting purposes for 3 studentships. Whereas the subject could also be in any discipline of legislation, we’d significantly welcome purposes within the following areas of strategic significance:

Surroundings (together with the Maritime Surroundings) and Sustainability;

Worldwide Felony Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Legislation;

Legislation, Know-how and AI;

Property Legislation and Social Justice.

Profitable candidates will likely be assigned two supervisors and can be a part of one in every of our analysis centres and contribute to the targets of the respective centres. PhD college students will achieve instructing expertise by way of our PGR instructing programme and will likely be anticipated to show a number of core modules (Public Legislation, Felony Legislation, Contract Legislation, Tort Legislation, Fairness and Trusts, and Property Legislation), or different modules as directed by the Head of College (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/doctoral-college/researcher-resources/coverage.web page ). We provide supportive mechanisms to PhD college students to equip them to ship high-quality instructing, together with the College of Southampton’s Doctoral Faculty.

The way to apply

Please apply for the PhD Legislation (please specify within the funding part of the on-line utility that you simply want to be thought-about for this studentship). It is best to submit your accomplished utility kind, tutorial transcripts, CV and provisional analysis proposal, of as much as 1500 phrases (excluding bibliography), by clicking the ‘Apply’ button above.

Additional details about our Russell Group College might be discovered at www.soton.ac.uk and in regards to the Legislation College at www.legislation.soton.ac.uk .

Enquiries could also be addressed to:

Professor Werner Scholtz, Head of Southampton Legislation College at W.Scholtz@soton.ac.uk