Scholarships & funding

ESRC Doctoral Studentship – Disabled People’s Lived Experiences of Benefit Reform and the Costs of Disability

This PhD will re-analyse 118 in-depth interviews with 52 disabled people (each interviewed up to three times) from the ‘Welfare Conditionality’ (Welcond) qualitative longitudinal dataset. The aim is to establish original knowledge about how the design and delivery of social security impacts disabled people’s lived experiences of the costs of disability in Scotland and England.

For more details, please visit the website.

Please note, the SGSSS provides tutition fee waiver for Home fee students and the University of Glasgow has committed to cover the difference for RUK/ EU and International students.

Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:

• Applicants will have a first degree (undergraduate) and have a demonstrable interest in the topic area under investigation.
• Applicants can have a Masters degree, however this is not a requirement.
• Applicants can study part-time or full-time.

Number of Scholarships

1

Value

Full fee waiver, stipend at the UKRI level (£20,780 in 2025/26), access to Research Training Support Grant.

Please note, the SGSSS provides tutition fee waiver for Home fee students and the University of Glasgow has committed to cover the difference for RUK/ EU and International students.

For more information contact: team@sgsss.ac.uk