RESEARCH students at the University of Kent at Canterbury can now find financial support from the Canterbury Business School.

The school, a department of the university, has been granted research training recognition by the Economic and Social Research Council. That means it is now able to obtain money for students to cover one year of research training followed by three years of research leading to a PhD.

The business school offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in management and business and has 900 students in Canterbury and Medway. Co-ordinator of research Prof Richard Scase said: "We are delighted to have received this recognition, which will enable us to develop further research portfolios."

Helen Rogers, who completed a PhD at the business school recently, said: "Within this relaxed and supportive environment are endless possibilities for exciting academic study with the chance to grow, learn and socialise there in one of the most attractive sites I have come across to date."