The UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral Training Partnership is an ESRC-funded organisation which brings together five leading Social Science institutions: UCL, SOAS, LSHTM, Birkbeck and UEL.

One of the largest ESRC-funded Doctoral Training Partnerships in the UK, the UBEL DTP funds over 40 studentships a year in areas spanning across the social sciences and economics. The DTP offers interdisciplinary and cross-institutional postgraduate studentships from 25 different pathways across its 56 departments. Studentships are offered on a full-time and part-basis, across a range of routes with over 80 MRes, MSc and MA programmes attached.