Application deadline: 14 February 2013
About the award
The College of Social Sciences and International Studies at Exeter is offering a fully funded studentship for a Home / EU student studying for an MPhil / PhD programme in the newly formed Strategy and Security Institute (SSI).
The SSI is a new, innovative, policy facing interdisciplinary research centre which has just established a new graduate research programme in strategy and security. The SSI has an ambitious research agenda, and with strong links with other University departments offers the opportunity for a PhD candidate to work in an exciting and truly interdisciplinary environment.
This prestigious award is worth over £52,000, and includes:
- Direct payment of tuition fees (at the standard UK/EU rate)
- Maintenance allowance for accommodation and living expenses of around £13,590 per annum.
Research areas
The SSI invites applications from students interested in undertaking PhD study into contemporary global security issues such as:
- Integrated approaches to conflict prevention and management
- Changing character of contemporary conflict
- International efforts to stabilise failed, failing or fragile states
- Gulf and Middle East security
- Decision-making and leadership
- Strategy and security in the contemporary world including intelligence
- Defence reform and strategy in the context of wider public policy
- Science, technology and security policy
- Humanitarian intervention and laws of armed conflict
- Civil-military relations and security sector governance
- Arms control and proliferation
- US-European security and defence relations, and the role and future of NATO
- Domestic security, public resilience and counter-terrorism
- The politics of defence industrial consolidation in Europe and the United States
- Ethics of the use of armed force
Further information
Visit our website via the Apply button below for full details of this award including eligibility criteria and details of how to apply.
For more information about the SSI and its research visit www.exeter.ac.uk/strategy