The ESRC-funded Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) is an interdisciplinary research centre at UCL focusing on issues of common interest to economists and psychologists. In the Economics Department, ELSE researchers work on economic theory, experimental economics and applied economics.

One scholarship of £9,000 (or two part-scholarships of £4,500 each) available for prospective MPhil/PhD students in the Department of Economics planning to work on topics of interest to the ELSE centre, who are not already receiving full fee and maintenance support from other sources. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic merit, and are normally tenable for one year only.