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The South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS) is a consortium of ten universities in the UK. All pioneers and world leaders in social-science research, knowledge production and training, the universities cooperate under ESRC to provide funding, expertise and an arena for Social Science and Economics researchers; their ESRC funding was announced in August 2016 after SeNSS's 2015 foundation. In 2016, SAGE Publishing revealed that it would begin a partnership with SeNSS. [1] [2]

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Member institutions

SeNSS members are: [3]

Activities

The SeNSS is funded by the ESRC and provides funding for PhD students in the social sciences, training and workshops as well as a yearly conference. SeNSS also provides post-doctoral fellowships, placements and researcher support; SeNSS started accepting applicants in 2017. [2]

SeNSS focuses on providing inter-disciplinary research training through engaging its scholars with expertise drawn from different scholarly fields.

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References

  1. "SAGE Publishing announces collaboration with the South East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS)". SAGE Publishing. 12 December 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 Broad, Mollie (9 March 2017). "Supporting PhD Students in the Social Sciences". Social Science Space. SAGE Publications . Retrieved 6 December 2017.
  3. "SeNSS Consortium". senss-dtp.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-19.