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This document describes postgraduate study leading to the degree of PhD with the Southampton High Energy Physics Group (SHEP) in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southampton.
We find financial support for two to three research students per year from STFC (including the possibility of upgrades under the STFC Studentship Enhancement Programme (STEP)), a similar amount of SEPnet Studentships is normally available through the NExT Institute plus we can offer at least one Faculty funded bursary per year in the form of a Mayflower Scholarship, which incorporates some teaching duties.
Recently, the University has launched a multidisciplinary institute: the SHEP group and the Astronomy (Astro) group in the School of Physics and Astronomy together with the General Relativity (GR) group in the School of Mathematics have forged closer links and come together to create the Southampton Theory, Astronomy and Gravitation (STAG) Institute. The latter pursues a number of initiatives and these include joint studentships, up to three of them (SHEP/Astro, SHEP/GR and Astro/GR) each year, whose features include four-year funding, joint supervision across the two groups involved plus training and research on topics at the overlap borders between their respective research interests.
SHEP is often member of European networks of various type in the context of the European Framework Programmes, some of this offering PhD positions. Currently we have one three-years such positions within the "Invisibles" network, which is a new European ITN project within Framework Programme 7 (FP7) and focuses on Neutrino and Dark Matter phenomenology and their connection (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN). For this position applicants must apply to us as well as via this webpage where more information can be found.
Further, this year (October 2012 start) we can also fund one four-year Studentship for a PhD project concentrating on Lattice QCD through an FP7 Starting Grant funded by the European Research Council (infos here under "JOBS").
Possibilities of 4-year PhD Studentships in the Institute for Complex Systems Simulation (ICSS) (with a first year of training in complexity science leading to 3 years of PhD research) also exist.
For potential PhD students with a mind into Web Science (possibly including exploitation and development of the World Wide Web in relation to physical sciences), we could consider a project based bid to the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) held by Electronics and Computer Science (ECS).
We are currently also seeking information from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Research Councils UK (RCUK) about the once approved Newton Scholarship scheme, as there have been plans to halt it.Furthermore, we always encourage those with other (even partial) means of support to apply to us. In fact, other than the possibility of raising School matching funds on an ad-hoc basis, we now also have formally the chance to access (on a competitive basis) Post-Graduate (PG) Studentships of 3 years, worth 7,000 pounds per year, offered by the University through the `PG Scholarship Fund' (open to any nationality) to enable self-supported students with partial financial means to carry out PhD studies with us (we have to apply on behalf of a potential student).
Finally, we are always keen to sponsor international students, either through subject-specific School/University or external funding: see here for more information. For nationals of India, China, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil, Russia and the developing world, there is sometime the possibility of applying for Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards (DHPAs).
Normally, only candidates with first class honours are accepted. We do not offer places to students until we have met them at interview and given them the opportunity to interact with our group. Unfortunately, we cannot pay expenses for visits to the School. However, nowadays we regularly carry out interviews through the internet (e.g., using institutional video conferencing facilities, EVO, Skype, etc.).
Once enrolled with SHEP, you will undergo training within the NExT PhD School.
The academic contact for high energy physics applications is Prof S Moretti, stefano@phys.soton.ac.uk.
You may also consult some funding information:
PhD positions around the UK
Created: 5 Aug 1997
Last updated: 31 October 2011