The UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral Training Partnership
The UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral Training Partnership is an ESRC funded organisation that unites six leading social science institutions.
UBEL is a Doctoral Training Partnership between University College London, Birkbeck University of London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, SOAS University of London, University of East London and University of Greenwich.
UBEL is one of the 15 Doctoral Training Partnerships across the UK funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), providing postgraduate students with high-quality social science research training.
UBEL offers fully funded and co-funded ESRC studentships cover payment of tuition fees per year to eligible students.
Find information about managing your studentship and get support with any issues that may be affecting your ability to study.
The UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral Training Partnership is an ESRC funded organisation that unites five leading social science institutions.
Our Vision
The DTP’s strategic vision is driven by a shared emphasis on interdisciplinary research; a multiplicity of existing connections within and across the partners; a joint apetite for engagement with non-academic partners; and a collective embedding in London, a super-diverse city with global reach and one of the largest populations of doctoral students anywhere in the world.
We are guided by a collective aim to foreground learning how to work across boundaries(disciplinary, institutional and professional) and work to produce graduates with the ability and flexibility to operate at the highest level within the London context and elsewhere, moving between local, national and international concerns.
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Meet our students
Shomo Basu
Birkbeck, University of London
Kieran Robson
University of East London
Hamda Mohamed
University of East London
Since 2017 UBEL has:
46
studentships on average per annum across competitions
330
in our community of funded students
6
partner institutions
30
research pathways
46
non academic partners
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Get in touch
The UBEL DTP support team provide guidance to prospective and current students in relation to ESRC guidelines and internal DTP processes. The UBEL DTP support team are in regular contact with partner colleagues as well as the Director and Deputy Director.
Alison Freeman (alison.freeman@ucl.ac.uk) – DTP Manager
Jamie Kozak (j.kozak@ucl.ac.uk) – DTP Co-ordinator
Gita Tailor (ubel-dtp@ucl.ac.uk) – DTP Administrator
Ran Xu (ubel-dtp@ucl.ac.uk) – DTP Administrator