An ESRC Studentship via UBEL DTP will cover:

• support for your tuition fees (minimum £4,500 per year)
• a minimum ‘stipend’ of £15,609 per year for your living costs, which is paid to you in regular instalments. There is an additional £2000 London allowance for UBEL DTP students.

Dear UBEL DTP Students, 

With reference to UKRI’s latest announcement, this message is to let students know that the DTP management team will be discussing how we can support our students with any new extension requests. ESRC have informed UBEL that we have received a small allocation of funding to support students – in the interest of transparency, the allocation received equates to 28 months of tuition fee and stipend to be shared across the cohorts (i.e. a maximum of 28 individual students could potentially receive a 1 month extension each). 

Please be aware that Phase 2 extension requests are still being confirmed at an institutional level and that UCL has an Easter closure from Thursday 1^st April (5pm) until Monday 12^th April (9am). 

UBEL will continue discussions concerning the additional funding for extensions and a subsequent process, after the Easter Break. 

For more information, please refer to the UKRI website: https://www.ukri.org/our-work/tackling-the-impact-of-covid-19/guidance-for-applicants-and-awardholders-impacted-by-the-pandemic/

Best wishes, 

UBEL DTP

The National Centre for Research Methods provides a service to learners, trainers and partner organisations in the research methods community.

Various resources have been made available, to help researchers with Covid-19 related disruptions. These can be found on the project’s website in the ‘Resources and Reports’ tab. 

One of the resources relates to research ethics. It is the Wayfinder guide to doing ethical research during Covid-19 times. 

There are also numerous training courses available in their database. Pleas see the current list of courses here.

UKRI has clarified what support is available to students who are shielding and the UKRI COVID-19 related sickness policy.

The updated guidance can be found here, along with the updated FAQs.

There is also some additional information about how UKRI developed policy to support students through the pandemic.

Please note that the university will be closed from Friday 18^th December, with staff returning on Monday 4^th January 2021. The UBEL DTP team will not be answering emails during this period. We hope you enjoy the Christmas break and have a happy new year!