Student Initiatives

Our students are an enterprising, creative and industrious bunch! There are opportunities to get involved in all kinds of student-led initiatives and activities to develop new skills and collaborate both with your peers and with and the wider community. Here is a taste of some existing activities but you may have your own ideas you would like to develop, if so we would like to hear from you.

Click on the topics below to find out more about Student Initiatives happening throughout the DTP.


Research Networks

Through the Student-Led Collaboration Fund, the SWDTP has helped students to establish a host of different Research Networks See more…


Student Conferences

The SWDTP Student Conference is an annual event, organised for students by students. The conference is free of charge and is open to all PGR students across the five SWDTP institutions, regardless of funding source See more…



TOR- Student Journal

TOR – The Open Review of the Social Sciences is a student led, peer reviewed and open access journal for the Social Sciences. See more…


SWDTP’s Standing Seminar in Critical Theory

The Standing Seminar in Critical Theory (SSCT) aims to build a permanent, transdisciplinary and inter-institutional space for critical thought across the South West Doctoral Training Partnership institutions. See more…