phd studentship: childhood family environment and the family and labour market outcomes of siblings
University of Bristol
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Funding: Home/EU fees and a stipend to be set be set in line with UKRI/ ESRC stipends for doctoral training (for 2020/21, this was £15,285 plus an Advanced Quantitative Methods enhancement of £3,250 for each PhD year).
Application deadline: 18 January 2021. You must contact Professor Susan Harkness by 4 January 2021 to discuss your proposed research.
Start date: October 2021
Based in: School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Overview
This PhD project aims to understand how family environment influences children’s outcomes in later life. It will explore how mothers’ and fathers’ investments in children, and sibling behaviours, influence employment and earnings trajectories, and patterns of family formation, of boys’ and girls’ as they transition to adulthood. The PhD candidate will examine these questions using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and Understanding Society (UKHLS). Specifically, it aims to understand the role that socialisation within the family plays in influencing children’s outcomes in later life. In so doing, it will shed light on the reasons gender inequalities persist across generations.
The studentship is for full-time for three years, beginning in October 2021. It will involve the use of advanced quantitative methods and we have therefore included the costs associated with the enhanced stipend and research training support grants. This studentship forms part of the ESRC funded Research Centre of Micro-Social Change program on changing family life courses and inequalities (https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/misoc/our-research/changing-family-life-courses ).
Candidates will be supervised by Professor Susan Harkness and Professor Esther Dermott, and will be based in the School of Policy Studies, University of Bristol.
How to apply:
Please view the online prospectus page for PhD Social Policy for further details on the admissions process.
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/2020/ssl/phd-social-policy/
Please click on 'how to apply' to make an online application for this project. Please select Social Policy on the Programme Choice page. You will be prompted to enter details of the studentship in the Funding and Research Details sections of the form.
As part of the application process, applicants will be asked to submit a research proposal (1,000 words). You must contact Professor Susan Harkness by email (s.harkness@bristol.ac.uk ) no later than the 4 January 2021 to discuss your research proposal. Please explain, in light of the topic focus on how family environment influences children’s outcomes in later life in the UK the research proposed during the studentship. Your proposal should demonstrate a solid understanding of relevant theories and methods. In addition, your application should set out your experience of using large datasets and statistical software, such as STATA or R, which is an essential requirement for this studentship.
Please refer to the following website for further guidance.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/sps/study/postgraduate/applying-for-a-phd/
Candidate requirements:
Applicants require an Upper Second-Class Honours degree and a pass at MSc/MA level (or equivalent) in a relevant social sciences subject (e.g. social policy, economics, sociology). Please view the PhD Social Policy prospectus page (see above) for full entry requirements (including the English Language profile as applicable). Training in statistical methods and experience of using large data sets and statistical software (Stata or R) is an essential requirement of the studentship.
Contacts:
Informal enquiries relating to the PhD project/programme should be directed to: Professor Susan Harkness (s.harkness@bristol.ac.uk )
Informal enquiries relating to the application process (including documents and references) should be directed to: Emma Western (sps-pgadmissions@bristol.ac.uk )
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