PhD Studentship in Psychology - City University London

PHD Studentship - Psychology
City University - Department of Psychology

Applicants are invited for a full-time PhD studentship within the Department of Psychology, City University, London.

The studentship is available to both UK/EU and overseas fee-paying students and is only to new applicants who will be studying full-time. The studentship, starting 1 October 2010, includes a bursary of £14,000 per annum (in addition to a full tuition fee waiver) for three years. The studentship also includes £1,000, which may be used across the three year period to cover the cost of conference attendance by the student, equipment purchase or other activity in support of the research. The successful applicant will be expected to undertake some form of teaching support activity of up to 150 hours per academic year as part of the bursary arrangements.

Applications should include a short research proposal, two references, full official copies of degree transcripts, plus proof of English Proficiency (if applicable). These, along with the completed research degree application form should be sent to Mr Peter Aggar

peter.aggar.1@city.ac.uk, or by post to:

Mr Peter Aggar

School of Social Sciences
City University London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
UK

The research degree application form is available from: www.city.ac.uk/research/resdegrees/dps/forms.

Additional general information about the PhD degree at City University can be found on the Research Studies web page, www.city.ac.uk/researchstudies

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Information about the Department of Psychology can be found at: www.city.ac.uk/psychology.

Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact one of our staff members whose research interests accord with their own prior to making an application. Full staff profiles are available at: www.city.ac.uk/psychology/staff.

Closing date: 16th July 2010.

PhD Studentship in Multimedia Studies - De Montford University

PhD Studentship
Low Complexity Multiview Video Coding
De Montfort University

Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing Group, Technology, De Montfort University, Leicester

Starting October 2010

A PhD research studentship within Technology, De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, is available to suitably qualified students. The aim of the project is to develop efficient solutions for low complexity multiview video coding. The project will be co-supervised by Professor Raouf Hamzaoui from DMU and Professor Pascal Frossard from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Candidates should hold a good first degree in electrical engineering, computer science or related fields. They should have excellent programming skills in C/C++ and good knowledge of video compression. For more information about the project please visit our website or contact Professor Raouf Hamzaoui by telephone +44 (0)116 207 8096 or email rhamzaoui@dmu.ac.uk

This research opportunity is one of 15 scholarships funded by DMU in 2010/11 to build on our excellent achievements in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. It will develop the University’s research capacity into new and evolving areas of study, enhancing DMU’s national and international research partnerships.

Applications are invited from UK or overseas students who should have a good first degree (First, 2:1 or equivalent) in a relevant subject and a keen interest in video coding. Doctoral scholarships are available for up to three years’ full-time study starting October 2010 and provide a bursary of £13,500pa in addition to University tuition fees.

Applicants should contact the Faculty Research Office to receive an application pack, which requires a full CV with two supporting references. Please email easpell@dmu.ac.uk or call +44 (0)116 207 8627 for further details.

Please quote ref: DMU Scholarships 2010

Closing Date: Monday 2 August

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PhD Studentship in Mineral Engineering - Imperial College London

PhD Studentship
Development of a Heap Leaching Simulator for the Minerals Industry
Imperial College London - Department of Earth Science and Engineering

For 36 months

A Rio Tinto PhD studentship is being offered to an excellent student with a background in Engineering, Physics or Applied Maths. The studentship will cover all student fees, as well as offers a tax-free stipend of approximately £15,590 per annum for the period 2010/2011. Applications will be considered from both local and overseas students.

Heap leaching is a process for extracting metals from ores. It is rapidly increasing in its usage due to lower operating and capital costs compared to more conventional extraction methods. Its main drawback though is that it still suffers from lower extraction efficiencies than competing methods. A key to improving this process is being able to accurately predict the performance as heap design and liquid addition strategies are changed. To this end, an accurate and efficient heap leaching simulator is required.

This project will involve integrating a novel continuum description for the unsaturated flow of liquid through a packed bed with models for mass transport, reaction kinetics and heat flow within the heap in order to produce an overall simulation of the process. This will then be used to investigate different heap design and liquid addition strategies.

A C/C++ programming ability is essential and it is highly desirable that the candidate has a background in fluid dynamics.

For more information or to apply, please contact Dr Stephen Neethling (s.neethling@imperial.ac.uk).

Details of the criteria required by Imperial College can be found at: www.imperial.ac.uk/pgprospectus/studyzone/registrationforhigherdegrees.

Application forms and instructions can be obtained from our website (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/earthscienceandengineering/courses/phdopportunities/phdapplicationprocedure) or from Ms Samantha Delamaine (E-mail: sam.delamaine@imperial.ac.uk, Tel: +44 (0) 207 594 7339).

Applicants will be processed when received with the expectation that the post will be filled by September 2010 and no later than December 2010.

Beasiswa S3 - Public infrastructure projects: a qualitative management study of open innovation systems

Public infrastucture project PhD scholarship

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a significant player in the Australian higher education sector, and its rapid growth in research performance has cemented its position as one of the nation’s top universities for quality and teaching in internationally significant, high-impact, leading edge research.

QUT is offering an Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Postgraduate Award Industry (APAI) PhD scholarship, with a top-up from our Project Management Academy.
You will study within QUT’s School of Urban Development in the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering alongside a dynamic, friendly and supportive team working on a landmark ARC research project.
The title of the project is “Maximising diffusion of innovative products on public infrastructure projects: a qualitative management study of open innovation systems”.
Study topic
The area of study is management in project-based industries, and you will choose a specific topic within this field. Possible study options include motivation of stakeholders, client leadership, innovation adoption, procurement systems, project management, relationship networks, knowledge management or related topics.
Term of study and remuneration
This is an opportunity for full-time study and the degree is to be completed within three years. The successful applicant will receive a scholarship worth $39,375 per year (tax exempt) which equates to a taxable income of around $56,000.
The scholarship will provide support for the three-year candidature of the successful applicant.  In addition to the scholarship, QUT will provide up to $10,000 for research expenses over the course of your study (including international conference travel), with the possibility of undertaking part-time tutoring work.
Eligibility
To be eligible you will need an Honours 1 or 2A degree within the broad fields of business, civil engineering or urban development. Equivalency may be granted for a two-year masters degree by research or a two-year masters degree by coursework with a GPA of 5 on a 7 point scale (with at least 33% research component). In judging equivalence, QUT may also consider other studies, other research experience, research publications, referees’ reports and relevant work experience.
Application closing date
Applications close at 12pm on Friday, 30 July 2010.
How to apply

To apply, please email your CV to Dr Karen Manley (k.manley@qut.edu.au) and Dr Tim Rose (tm.rose@qut.edu.au) by 12pm on Friday, 30 July 2010.

PhD Studentship in Drug Engineering - University of Oxford

Research Studentship in Nanoparticle Drug Delivery
University of Oxford - Department of Engineering Science

A fully funded 3 year studentship in Nanoparticle Drug Delivery is available from October 2010. The successful candidate will work in the area of Drug and Vaccine Delivery at the Departments’ Institute of Biomedical Engineering in Headington.

You are likely to hold a first-class degree in a relevant area of engineering (biomedical, chemical or pharmaceutical engineering), materials, pharmaceutical sciences or other relevant subject, and possess good experimental, analytical and computational skills and an interest in drug delivery. Experience in nanoparticle and microparticle manufacturing methods as well as scientific programming together with evidence of high self-motivation and good organisational skills are desirable. The ability to work in an interdisciplinary team and to communicate scientific ideas clearly, orally and in writing with the interpersonal skills necessary to contribute effectively to a collaborative project would be advantageous.

This studentship will fund home or overseas University fees over three years together with a stipend currently of £13,900 per annum.

Candidates are expected to meet the Graduate Admissions criteria available at http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/postgrad/criteria.pdf and a full graduate application must be made at the same time as applying for this studentship. Further details about making a graduate application are available at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply

Please send a letter of application for the studentship, which should explain your interest in and relevant experience for the advertised post, together with a detailed CV to: Mrs Debbie Wyatt, PA to the Senior Administrator, Department of Engineering Science, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ.

Please quote DF10036 in all correspondence to the Department and in your graduate application.

The closing date for applications is 15th July 2010

Committed to equality and valuing diversity.

PhD Studentship in Electrical Engineering - University of Manchester

Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards (DHPA) Studentship
Investigating The Spectral And Spatial Performance Of Food Line Detectors
The University of Manchester - School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Start date: September 2010

Deadline for applications: 9 July 2010

Supervisor: Professor Tony Peyton

Project reference number: PhD/EEE/AP/SL684

Project description:

This 3 year DHPA Studentship offers an exciting opportunity for a graduate student to pursue an industrial based PhD degree between sites at the University of Manchester School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mettler Toledo Safeline facilities nearby in Salford, and working as part of a team of academic and industrial partners, working to develop new, state of the art food line detectors.

In-line metal detectors are widely used in the food and pharmaceutical industry. They serve as a safe guard against product contamination from metal fragments and for some applications there are statutory requirement for their levels of performance. Although the metal detection industry is relative mature; there are aspects of the performance of the detectors that need to be better understood. Some of these issues now present a significant barrier to further improvement of these instruments

Consequently, this research will address fundamental issues, which now limit the performance of food line detectors, especially the systems for sensing foreign bodies. For example, an immediate aim is to improve our understanding the “product effect”, which is the unwanted signal caused by the complex electrical conductivity of the object being scanned.

A full understanding of this issue should lead to more sensitive detectors and an ability to use the product signal to monitor product quality in food stuffs. It is likely this knowledge could be beneficial to other detector such as those for security applications. As the research progresses we would hope to exploit our new knowledge and together with techniques being pioneered for mutual induction tomography and spectroscopy to look forward towards a new generation of electromagnetic food line inspection systems.

Qualifications:

DHPA are highly respected awards and the scheme is open to only scholar nationals from India, China, Hong Kong, Brazil, South Africa, Russia and the developing world.

The ideal candidate will have a top first class honours degree from a prestigious overseas academic institution in Physics, or Electrical Engineering / Electronics, or a similar. The ideal candidate will also be stimulated by problem solving and have proven practical ability and be able to work in a multidisciplinary team with food scientists, application engineers, business management and end-users.

Funding:

The student will have full fees paid plus a minimum stipend of £13,290 p.a. over 3 years, which will increase each year at a rate stipulated by the Research Councils UK (RCUK).

Enquiries: Informal enquiries about the studentship are welcome by email to a.peyton@manchester.ac.uk or by telephone on 0161 306 8716.

How to Apply:

In the first instance, please send a CV and 1 page accompanying statement to Mrs Marie Davies, Postgraduate (Research) Admissions, email M.B.Davies@manchester.ac.uk quoting the project reference number PhD/EEE/AP/SL684.

Links:

* www.mt.com/metaldetection
* http://www.eee.manchester.ac.uk/
* http://www.eee.manchester.ac.uk/research/groups/sisp/

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/a.peyton/

Anthropological Linguistics, Language Documentation: PhD Student, La Trobe University, Australia

Institution/Organization: La Trobe University
Department: Research Centre for Linguistic Typology
Web Address: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/
Level: PhD
Duties: Research
Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation
Description:
PhD positions in Language Description and Documentation at the Research Centre
for Linguistic Typology
The Research Centre for Linguistic Typology (RCLT) at La Trobe University in
Melbourne, Australia (http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt) invites applications from
suitably qualified students to enter its PhD program.
The RCLT is committed to comprehensively analysing the linguistic structures of
languages that are endangered or have previously been little studied or are
completely undescribed.
PhD candidates at the RCLT undertake extensive fieldwork on their chosen
language. Following a period of academic preparation at the RCLT, students will
take a fieldtrip of at least several months duration to the community where the
language is spoken. Fieldwork methodology centres on the collection, transcription
and analysis of texts, together with participant observation, and judicious
grammatical elicitation in the language under description. RCLT students also aim
at language documentation: recording a range of linguistic styles, and building a
corpus of linguistic data that can be archived in international digital archives which
are available to both specialist linguists and the speakers of the language.
PhD candidates aim to write a grammatical description of the language they are
working on, covering the central areas of language such as phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics of that language.
Candidates may find that some of these areas merit a deeper examination than
others. Following the completion of a first draft of the thesis, the candidate would
undertake a second field trip of a further several months, during which time the
basis and claims of the thesis can be checked.
The main priorities of the RCLT are Tibeto-Burman languages (Asia), the Papuan
and Austronesian languages of New Guinea and surrounding islands, the
languages of Amazonia and of Africa. However, we do not exclude applicants who
have an established interest in languages from other areas.
PhDs in Australian universities generally involve no coursework, just a substantial
dissertation. Candidates must thus have had thorough coursework training before
embarking on this PhD program. This should have included courses on
morphology, syntax, semantics, phonology/phonetics and comparative-historical
linguistics, preferably taught from a typological/functional perspective. We place
emphasis on work that has a sound empirical basis and also shows a firm
grounding in general typological literature and work done on related languages.
The scholarship will be at the standard La Trobe University rate, Australian
$22,500 p.a.  Students coming from overseas are liable for a tuition fee but this
can usually be covered by a separate scholarship. A small relocation allowance
may be provided on taking up the scholarship. In addition, an appropriate
allowance will be made to cover fieldwork expenses. The scholarship is for three
years (with the possibility of a six month extension).
Closing date for international applicants: 30TH SEPTEMBER 2010
Closing date for Australian and New Zealand applicants: 30TH OCTOBER 2010
Prospective applicants are invited, in the first place, to get in touch with the
Director, Professor Randy J. LaPolla, at r.lapolla@latrobe.edu.au, providing details
of their background, qualifications and interests (including a curriculum vitae and
detailed project proposal).
Application Deadline: 30-Sep-2010
Mailing Address for Applications:
Attn: Prof Randy LaPolla
RCLT
La Trobe University VIC 3086
Australia
Web Address for Applications: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/
Contact Information:
Prof Randy LaPolla
r.lapolla@latrobe.edu.au
Phone:+61 3 9479 6400
Fax:+61 3 9479 3053

Fujitsu Scholarship study at Hawaii, USA

Fujitsu Scholarship study at Hawaii, USA
The Fujitsu Asia Pacific Scholarship (Fujitsu Scholarship) Program, sponsored by Fujitsu Limited, provides financial assistance for postgraduate education and cross-cultural management training to participants from the Asia-Pacific region. Fujitsu Limited, an international leader in information technology, telecommunications, semiconductors and electronics that is headquartered in Tokyo, established the Fujitsu Scholarship to commemorate its 50th anniversary in 1985.
The Fujitsu Scholarship supports your development as a global leader by funding your participation in the East-West Knowledge Leaders Program.

Hone your leadership vision with this specialized program, delivered by JAIMS, in the wonderful setting of Honolulu, Hawaii. The diverse student body and rigorous curriculum will stretch you to be your best, and prepare you to lead your organization to success in the 21st Century.

Readmore:

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/about/responsibility/community/scholarship

21 PhD Scholarships at University of Camerino, Italy

21 PhD Scholarships at University of Camerino, Italy

http://www.unicam.it/laureati/dottorato/call.asp
http://www.unicam.it/laureati/dottorato/CallForApplication

Deadline: 16 August 2010

PhD studentships, Biomedical Tech, U of Insubria, Italy

IBT PhD Program 2010
PhD program in “Innovative Biomedical Technologies”
http://www4.med.unipmn.it/ibt/ibt-phd-program-2010

The PhD program in “Innovative Biomedical Technologies” (IBT) is an international and multidisciplinary joint postgraduate training program provided by the University of Eastern Piedmont at Novara and the University of Insubria at Varese (Italy) in collaboration with the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA).

The IBT Program offers four scholarships for the following topics:

1.”Vaccines for therapy of autoimmunity”
Steward Department: Department of Medical Sciences, Novara, Italy.

2.”Innovative tools for the diagnosis of autoimmunity”
Steward Department: Department of Medical Sciences, Novara, Italy.

3.”Interferon and autoimmunity”
Steward Department: Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Novara, Italy.

4.”Tumor immunotherapy and vaccines”
Steward Department: Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, Varese, Italy.

The program is funded by the Fondazione Cariplo and comprises grants for specific educational activities and research stages at the participating or other institutions.

http://www4.med.unipmn.it/ibt/ibt-phd-program-2010

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