ESRC Centre-Linked PhD Studentship
The new ESRC funded interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change (CRESC) is pleased to offer a PhD studentship ......full story
The new ESRC funded interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change (CRESC) is pleased to offer a PhD studentship for work on the above doctoral research project.
Background
Part of CRESC's mission is to nurture innovative methodological
resources necessary to rigorously study socio-cultural change.
Building on the expertise of CRESC members, we have already
developed distinctive methodological strengths in social network
analysis which are probably unparalleled in the UK, and we seek to
develop these further through a studentship who will be taught
'state-of-the-art' social network analysis by CRESC members and
will then apply these skills to a study of public elites in the UK.
Although there are numerous studies of corporate and political
elites using social network methods (e.g. from John Scott and
William Carroll) , there have been no studies of the networks of
members of 'quangos' and official bodies. Given the growing
importance of such bodies in the governance of nations such as
the UK in areas such as health and education, this study will shed
new light on the extent to which members of these bodies are
drawn from selective circles, are internally interconnected and homogenous.
Further details of the project can be downloaded from
http://www.cresc.ac.uk
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ESRC Centre-Linked PhD Studentship
The new ESRC funded interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change (CRESC) is pleased to offer a PhD studentship ......full story