Information and resources for all current SSEES students.
Undergraduate & Graduate Taught
- Careers
- Handbooks
Affiliate Students
Undergraduate Handbooks
- Economics and Business Handbook
- History, Politics and Economics Handbook
- Languages and Culture Syllabus and Handbook
- Politics, Sociology and East European Studies Handbook
Graduate Taught Handbooks
- Comparative Business Economics - MA Handbook
- Comparative Economics and Policy - MA Handbook
- MA Comparative Russian and Eurasian Studies Handbook
- History MA Handbook
- IMESS Handbook
- Languages and Culture MA Handbook
- Politics MA Handbook
- MA/MRes Dissertation Preparation Programme
- MRes Handbook
- MA Style Guidelines for Dissertations and assessed essays
- Module Listings
- Reading Lists
Reading lists for modules can be found on the UCL Reading Lists Pages
Undergraduate Reading Lists for new Year 1 students starting in 2023
- Student Support
- Forms, Policies & Guidelines
- Extenuating Circumstances (from 3rd of October 2022) you will apply on Portico How to Apply
For student information and guidance on Extenuating Circumstances, including how to apply using ECsOnline, please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/academic-manual/chapters/chapter-2-student-support-framework/section-2-short-term-illness-and-other-extenuating
- Grounds for Extenuating Circumstances
- Personal Tutor Form (Word)
- Module Change Form (For changes to module selections for 2023/24 Academic year)
- Timetable Change Request Form (for Timetable clashes 2023/24)
- Interruption Application for taught students (via Portico)
- Applying for Interruption - Instructions
- Applying to Change Programme
- SSEES Marking Criteria (chapter 10.3 of the SSEES Handbook)
- UCL Student Assessment Criteria Guide for Taught Programmes - an illustrative guide (PDF)
- Study Skills Guide
- Prizes & Awards
Undergraduate Prizes
- The Georgette Donchin Memorial Prize (£50 biannually)
- The Alan Ferguson Memorial Prize (£250)
- Keith Sword Memorial Prize (£50 biannually)
- SSEES Alumni (UG) Prize (£50)
- The Rob Hudson Memorial Prize (£100)
- The John Marshall Prize (£300)
- The László Péter Memorial Prize (£50)
- The M.J. Youhotsky Memorial Prize (£150)
Postgraduate Prizes
- Term Dates
2022 - 23 Term Dates
- First Term: Monday 26 September 2022 to Friday 16 December 2022
- Second Term: Monday 9 January 2023 to Friday 24 March 2023
- Third Term: Monday 24 April 2023 to Friday 9 June 2023
College Reading Weeks
Monday 7 November 2022 and Monday 13 February 2023
Postgraduate Research (PhD/MPhil)
- Academic Regulations
- Research Student Handbook
- Training for Research Students
- Training Needs Analysis Form
- UCL Doctoral Skills Development Programme
- Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network
- LAHP (AHRC) Research Training
- Vitae Researcher Development Framework
- Arena One (development pathway for postgraduate students who teach)
- Postgraduate Research Scholarships and Bursaries
- UCL Doctoral School Academic Societies Fund
- Research Excellence Scholarships for Cross-Disciplinary Training (One Year)
- UCL Research Excellence Scholarship
- Angela Mary Conning Scholarship (£1,000)
- South-East European Studies Fellowship (£1,600)
- SSEES Excellence Scholarship (£2,000)
- SSEES Foundation Scholarship (three triennial awards)
- Viktor and Rita Swoboda Memorial Scholarship (triennial award)
- Wendy Bracewell Travel Bursary (fees + £5,000 stipend)
- Lindsay Hughes Bursary (£850)
- Philippa Hetherington Research Travel Grant (£1,000)