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CRESC PhD Studentship 2010-2012

The ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) intends to fund a doctoral studentship for a period of three years from September 2010. The student will be supervised by a team of 2 or 3 supervisors from amongst the Manchester Research Associates and Directors (see the website for further details). The successful student will be based at the Manchester CRESC offices, and will be expected to spend up to six hours a week supporting CRESC in an administrative and/or research capacity. The student will benefit from working in a dedicated research environment where they can liaise with numerous active researchers linked to CRESC themes.

One fully funded PhD studentships is currently available, covering the standard home/EU fee for 2010/2011 entry plus an annual stipend of £13,290 , payable in four instalments, and £750 research training grant per annum.

The successful candidate will

  • Have an excellent undergraduate degree (minimum 2:1) in any of the disciplinary areas which are involved in CRESC (Business Studies, Social Anthropology, Sociology, Women’s Studies)
  • Have completed a research training Masters (with a minimum overall average of 60%) in concordance with the expectations of the ESRC
  • Have interests in any of the six CRESC themes (see www.cresc.ac.uk for details)
  • It is also hoped that candidates will
  • Study a topic of interdisciplinary significance involving an interdisciplinary supervisory team
  • Have both methodological and theoretical interests in CRESC research beyond their specific research topics.

How to Apply

Candidates are asked to submit a CV and a one page statement of their proposed research topic, to Vicky.Barnes@manchester.ac.uk by January 1st 2010.

Further Enquiries

Interested candidates are invited to contact any of the Manchester CRESC Directors to discuss their application;

  • Professor Penny Harvey, email; penny.harvey@manchester.ac.uk
  • Professor Mike Savage, email; mike.savage@manchester.ac.uk
  • Professor Karel Williams, email; karel.williams@manchester.ac.uk

Decisions on funding will be made by the end of March (2010).

The successful candidate will then be required to submit a full PhD application for formal programme approval purposes. Further details on this will be communicated separately to the successful candidate.

Also advertised on SoSS

Tentative Application Deadline : 21 January 2010

New Openings of PhD Full-Time Scholarships

The Bonn-Aachen International Research School of Applied Information Technology (B-IT Research School) is operated by RWTH Aachen University and the University of Bonn in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Society, Institute Center Birlinghoven Castle. The offered eight full-time positions should be filled by March 2010 . The research school covers a wide range, from foundations to different areas of application, including interdisciplinary topics.
  • Media Informatics and Advanced Human-Computer Interaction
  • Communication Systems Engineering
  • Software and Information Engineering
  • Life Science Informatics
  • Computer Graphics
  • IT Security
  • Data Mining, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
  • Algorithm Design and Formal Foundations of Applied IT

Application Deadline
January 2, 2010

Submission of all required application documents should be made electronically to rs-applications@b-it-center.de.
Prerequisites
A very good Master degree in Informatics/Computer Science or another field related to the topics of the research school. The research school will also consider a few exceptionally qualified Bachelor graduates with an outstanding track record for a funded scholarship covering an integrated Master-Doctoral programme linked to the international Master programs of the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT). Applicants should have a strong background and interest in one of the eight research areas above. More details about the research areas can be found here.

Scholarship Amount
The scholarship amounts to 1.468 Euro per month, tax free. Scholarships can be granted for a maximum of three years, with an intermediate evaluation. Under certain conditions, increased scholarships are available for candidates with children.
Application

Applications must include:
  • a curriculum vitae,
  • copies of exam transcripts,
  • a recommendation by at least one university professor, and
  • a short description of work done so far (e.g. Master thesis or other research-related experience) and research interests, including a specific research area of interest and possibly first ideas for a thesis topic.
  • TOEFL or IELTS (one of the two tests is sufficient) and GRE scores should be included.

Applications must be submitted electronically to rs-applications@b-it-center.de no later than January 2, 2010 . Question can be directed to the coordinators of B-IT Research School: Professor Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University (jarke@dbis.rwth-aachen.de) and Professor Armin B. Cremers, University of Bonn (abc@iai.uni-bonn.de).

B-IT Research School has a strong interest in bringing in the full pool of talent in applied Informatics and therefore strongly encourages female students and students from outside Germany to apply. The working language of the research school is English.

Questions regarding the scholarships can be directed to rs-helpdesk@b-it-center.de

Tentative Application Deadline : 2 January 2010
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