Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program: Application

About You

First name

Last name

Email address

Postal address

Preferred telephone number

(including international dialing code)

Nationality

Academic Details

Ph.D. discipline or subject

(e.g., sociology)

University

Department

What year did you begin your Ph.D. program?

Expected Ph.D. completion date

What stage of your thesis or dissertation will you have reached by the time of the Summer Doctoral Program?

Thesis title

If you have not yet finalized a thesis title, please input a provisional title. We cannot accept students who are unable to give any information about their likely area of research.

Thesis abstract

Please enter a brief summary of your thesis topic, including research questions, methodology and likely contribution. (max 200 words)

Reasons for Applying

Please explain how your research fits with the Oxford Internet Institute, the Berkeley I School, and/or the Berkeley Center for New Media’s areas of expertise and why you think you would benefit from attending this program.

(max 300 words)

In order to help us plan this year’s SDP, please indicate any topics, methods, or skills you would particularly like us to focus on, either in-class seminars or more hands-on workshops.

How did you hear about SDP?

This information will help us improve our communications strategy in the future.

Accompanying Materials

When attaching any documents to your application, please ensure your surname is included in the file names. Please note we cannot consider applications which do not include these materials.

Please attach your most up-to-date academic CV. This should include details of all prior qualifications, academic publications, and the final grades of your most recent completed degree.

One file only.
4 MB limit.
Allowed types: rtf, pdf, doc, docx.

Please provide a description of your doctoral thesis research project, including a precise research question, theoretical framing, research design, preliminary findings, and references. Your description should also clearly convey how any data have been collected and analysed, as well as concisely indicate the academic field to which the thesis aims to contribute.

One file only.
4 MB limit.
Allowed types: rtf, pdf, doc, docx.

(max 1500 words)

Reference

All applications must be supported by at least one academic reference. This should usually be provided by a dissertation supervisor, but we can also accept references from other faculty with close knowledge of your work.

Please ask your reference to email their letter of support to sdp@ischool.berkeley.edu.

The letter should address the following questions:

Whether and why you think this student would benefit from attending this summer program;
How you feel the student would fare in an international, interdisciplinary environment that depends on openness to intellectual exploration and collegial feedback;
How you would describe the quality and potential of their academic work;
Whether you would also support an application for scholarship support (and your reasoning).

Please also enter the details of your reference below, so that we can contact them if we do not receive the letter in good time.

Title

(Dr., Professor, etc.)

First name

Last name

Email address

Role or relationship

(e.g., dissertation supervisor)

Accommodations

Are there any special requirements we might need to accommodate if you were to attend the program?

For example, a disability or dietary requirement.

Personal information collected via this form will be held in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR and solely for the purposes of processing applications to the Summer Doctoral Program. It will be held securely and not passed on to third parties outside of the Oxford Internet Institue, the Berkeley School of Information, and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Please see our privacy policy for further information.

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Last updated: December 16, 2024