The UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral Training Partnership is an ESRC-funded organisation which brings together 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.

Prospective Students

ESRC Studentships

The UBEL DTP’s fully funded ESRC studentships cover full payment of tuition fees per year and an annual maintenance stipend.

ESRC Co-funded studentships

Co-funded and Collaborative Studentships are doctoral projects which are jointly and collaboratively run by both academic and non-academic organisations.

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

Fellowships are aimed at those in the immediate postdoctoral stage of their career, to provide the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, and their research and professional skills.

News

Building community across institutions: the UBEL DTP Spring Social at the University of Greenwich

On Friday 5 June, UBEL DTP student representatives hosted the annual Spring Social at the University of Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College campus, a UNESCO World Heritage Site celebrated for its baroque architecture and familiar to many as the backdrop for well known films. The afternoon brought together doctoral researchers from across the partnership for…

From PhD to policy: what three months in the Open Innovation Team taught me about turning evidence into action

A PhD can be wonderfully absorbing. You spend months refining a question, learning a dataset inside out, and stress-testing analyses until the results finally start to speak. However, even when the findings are strong, there is a persistent question that many doctoral researchers asked themselves quietly in the background: so what happens next? For me,…