White Rose Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership at University of York 2026-2027

The University of York in partnership with Economic and Social Research Council White Rose DTP is calling for applications for this fully funded scholarship. The Economic and Social Research Council White Rose DTP is a regional consortium of seven universities with social science research excellence and involves the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York. 

The following awards will be open for application from students:

• up to 35 Pathway Awards available across the DTP incorporating 2 Interdisciplinary Research Awards and 2 WRDTP/Stuart Hall Foundation Awards for Black British applicants
• up to 2 WRDTP Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM) Awards
• up to 2 WRDTP Advanced Data Analytics (ADA) Awards.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineJanuary 21, 2026
• Study LevelMasters , PhD
• SponsorUniversity of York
• City to studyYork
• School to studyUniversity of York
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

• ESRC stipend (£20,780 2025/26) plus full fee waiver.
• Applicants without a social science Masters degree will normally be funded for 4.5 years, undertaking a 1 year MA Social Research followed by 3.5 year PhD.
• Applicants who already have a social science Masters degree, but have fewer than 60 credits of M-level social science research training will normally be funded for 3.75 years to undertake  an integrated PGCert/PhD.
• Applicants with a social science Masters degree and with 60 or more credits of M-level social science research training will normally be funded for 3.5 years to undertake a PhD.

Requirements

• Open to International (including EU), International (non-EU) and UK (home) students.
• Check the department processes and eligibility section (below) for department-specific eligibility requirements. 
• All students are eligible to receive a full award, to include a stipend and fees at the home level.

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Application Deadline

How To Apply

The application process is managed internally by departments. You should seek out advice from your prospective supervisor in the first instance if you are interested in applying for the competition.

1) Applicants are asked to apply for a place on the PhD programme in the department/school of their choice first.

2) Each department has an earlier internal deadline by which prospective applicants must have applied for a place on the PhD programme in order to be eligible for consideration for ESRC WRDTP funding. Some departments will also require you to submit a draft funding application for the ESRC WRDTP scheme. You must contact the department to check if this is the case: they will provide you with information about how and when to complete their required applications, including draft application forms.

If you have any queries around the deadline, and whether you are required to submit a draft funding application, please contact the Postgraduate Research Administrator of your chosen department directly for details on this earlier deadline. They will also be able to supply you with a word version of the application form.

3) Following this internal department deadline, departments will shortlist their PhD applicants and invite them to complete a full application for the ESRC competition.

Departments will share an application form link directly with the applicants that they have shortlisted for the ESRC Competition.

Once the application form link has been received by the shortlisted applicants from their chosen department, they will have until 5pm, 21 January 2026 to make their formal application to the ESRC competition through the application form link.

For more details, visit University of York Scholarship webpage