The gift is believed to be the largest private donation to a history-related project at a British University. The McFarlanes are both Edinburgh graduates. Scholarships The two PhD scholarships will cover UK/EU tuition fees and a maintenance allowance for three year periods of study. Awards are made on a three yearly cycle. One award is available for September 2010 entry.

Eligible Candidates Applicants for these awards must be able to demonstrate the relevance of their proposed project to the history of Scottish emigration and/or the impact of Scottish mobility on overseas countries.Proposals may focus on any period from the medieval centuries to recent times.Successful applicants will become members of the proposed Scottish Centre of Diaspora Studies which is to be directed by Professor Tom Devine.

Informal enquiries about these awards can be made to Professor Devine , Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History and Palaeography, 0131 650 4029 0131 650 4029 or email.
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Project Specification:
As nations strive to develop their digital economies to take advantage of cost efficiencies and new services afforded by Next Generation Networks and associated Internet Applications, there is increased pressure to provide adequate communications transport infrastructure that will deliver these new services at appropriate levels of performance, security, carbon footprint and financial cost. The strategies used for the design and deployment of these services across fixed and wireless physical communications infrastructure and providing for their distribution, storage and processing requirements does result in variations of customer acceptability and experience. These differences can be brought about due to vendor equipment, geography, availability, access rights, security considerations, resilience, fault tolerance and performance/cost of maintaining the underlying network links, elements, data centres, base stations and exchanges. Moreover, the method of access over fixed or wireless infrastructure can cause major fluctuations in service delivery and end-user QoE. Coupled with these issues are mitigations against underlying threats and faults in the physical elements themselves and their power supply.

Research Aims:
Wireless Sensors Networks can be deployed to assist in the monitoring function to detect and report faults and SLA-flapping as part of the Network Management Control Plane functions. Such WSNs can be integrated across major critical communications infrastructure to form a Wireless-Sensor Cloud that exchanges performance and component health status data in a virtualised environment.

Within this project there will be a key focus on the design of WS-Cloud architectures and light-weight middleware to provide for the on-demand and autonomic message passing protocols in support of data fusion techniques.

Key design targets will provide for efficient real-time data transfer between ad-hoc-WSNs that form in the wireless access cloud and for fixed deployments that form part of the metro/core infrastructure. A key outcome of the research will be a unique architecture that can be scalable to large number of SNs with differing data capture and exchange/fusion protocols.

Whilst the techniques designed will have direct application for critical communications infrastructure, it is hoped that aspects of the new design will have application and relevance to other utilities such as the distribution networks for gas, oil, water and power.

Applications Process and Candidate Eligibility:
All applicants should hold a first or upper second class honours degree in Computer Science, Electronic Engineering or a cognate area. It is desirable that candidates will have a Masters degree in a subject related to Telecommunications Networking and have a good understanding of statistical / mathematical modelling and telecommunications protocols. Suitable candidates will preferably have an MSc in Telecommunications or a related area. Experience of Wireless Sensor Networking (WSN), distributed and parallel computing and real-time networks communications protocols would be desirable as will be skills on modeling, simulation and multi-modal data fusion and development languages such as Java and/or C++.

Whilst this PhD Award is open to local and international candidates, in the context of the IU-ATC we would especially welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates from India. Successful candidates will enrol on a full-time programme of research studies leading to the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

The studentship will comprise fees and an annual stipend of £13,290. It will be awarded for a period of up to three years subject to satisfactory progress and is tenable in the School of Computing and Information Engineering at the Coleraine Campus, Northern Ireland, UK.

The closing date for receipt of completed applications is 28th February 2010.

Further, it will be necessary for candidate to be eligible to obtain an appropriate visa to the UK as defined by the UK Borders Agency: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk

For further information on the application process please visit our website: http://www.compeng.ulster.ac.uk/rgs/. Please follow the guidance notes regarding the completion of the application form.

For further information on the project please contact Professor Gerard Parr, Chair in Telecommunications Engineering, University of Ulster – gp.parr@ulster.ac.uk.

Application materials are available from:
Research Office,
University of Ulster,
Cromore Road,
Coleraine,
BT52 1SA,
Tel: 028 7032 4729,
e-mail; hj.campbell@ulster.ac.uk,
Web: http://research.ulster.ac.uk/info/prospective/apply.html

Artificial Intelligence Research Group
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Information & Communications Engineering Research Group
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Intelligent Systems Research Centre
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Smart Environments Research Group
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Application
Apply online www.ulster.ac.uk/applyonline or complete an application form before 26 March 2010.

Funding
Awards are also available to International students

Applications for DEL and VCRS awards should be received by the Research Office on or before 26 March 2010. Other application deadlines are as advertised.

Vice-Chancellor’s Research Scholarships (VCRS)
A number of University funded VCRS will be available in certain subject areas. Applicants for these awards must have or expect to obtain in Summer 2010 the minimum of an upper second class honours degree in a specific research area (as advertised). They will cover tuition fees and a maintenance award of not less than £13,489 per annum for three years (subject to satisfactory academic performance). Applications are invited from UK, European Union and overseas students. Only candidates who are new applicants to PhD will be eligible. VCRS awards are not available for applicants for any other research degree nor for any candidate who has previously registered for PhD nor anyone who has already obtained a PhD.

DEL Research Studentships (DEL)
The University has DEL research studentships available in many subject areas. These pay tuition fees and an annual maintenance award of not less than £13,489 per annum. Full awards are available only to applicants normally resident in the UK. Applicants for these awards must have or expect to obtain in Summer 2010 the minimum of an upper second class honours degree in a subject area appropriate to the project.

Applications will be considered in areas of economic relevance, namely agri-food, life and health sciences, advanced materials (including clean technologies), engineering, ICT, electronics, software engineering, construction (including clean technologies), creative media and financial services. In considering applications, account will be taken of engineering and technology, mathematical sciences and biological sciences which, as evidenced in the STEM report, are particularly under-represented at doctoral level graduation in Northern Ireland.

DEL CAST Awards
These are awards co-funded by the Department for Employment and Learning and industry in specific approved project areas. Project titles will be advertised in appropriate local and national media as they become available. Full awards are available only to applicants normally resident in the UK. The average maintenance allowance for eligible students in receipt of CAST awards will be not less than £15,000 per annum. Applicants for these awards must have or expect to obtain in Summer 2010 the minimum of an upper second class honours degree in a subject area appropriate to the project. (DEL Terms and Conditons 2009/2010)

Applications will be considered in areas of economic relevance, namely agri-food, life and health sciences, advanced materials (including clean technologies), engineering, ICT, electronics, software engineering, construction (including clean technologies), creative media and financial services. In considering applications, account will be taken of engineering and technology, mathematical sciences and biological sciences which, as evidenced in the STEM report, are particularly under-represented at doctoral level graduation in Northern Ireland.

Tentative Application Deadline : 26 March 2010

Contact:
Rosehill
New Barn Lane
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL52 3LZ

SICSA offers up to 20 prize studentships per year to the very best students from anywhere in the world. Our aim is to attract the research leaders of the future, whatever their nationality or place of residence, to come and work with us in Scotland.

Each SICSA student will spend 3 to 4 years as part of a programme coordinated across the partners. These students will catalyze new collaborations across the research community, and lead the next generation of excellent computing researchers.

In 2010, we will be offering up to 20 SICSA prize studentships, across Scotland. We are looking for outstanding applicants in any area of computer science and informatics. We are particularly interested in applications from students who want to work in one of the SICSA research themes.

SICSA prize studentships are funded jointly by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) and the university where the studentship is held. They are worth around £18,000 per year for 3.5 years. This includes support for living expenses of around £13,000, research expenses and postgraduate fees at the level charged to students who are UK/EU residents.

Additional support may be available to students who are not UK/EU residents and who would normally be required to pay the full postgraduate fee. The level of this support, however, depends on individual universities and cannot be guaranteed.

SICSA is committed to Scottish research collaboration, including excellent researchers in smaller groups as well as those in larger units. Studentships are therefore available at all Scottish Universities that are members of SICSA.

To reinforce the collaborative nature of SICSA, each studentship will involve cross-site supervision. Formally, however, each student would be registered in the traditional manner, at a single degree-awarding institution.

Applying for a SICSA prize studentship
The Scottish Graduate Academy offers prize studentships to excellent candidates from across the world. There is no residence qualification and candidates from any country may apply.

We are willing to consider applicants in any area of computer science and informatics but may give preference to students who are working in SICSA theme areas:

• Next-generation Internet
• Multi-modal interaction
• Modelling and abstraction
• Complex systems engineering

Some universities would like to recruit students for specific projects and information about these projects is available here. However, your application does not have to be related to any of these projects and you may make a research proposal in any area of work.

Students must have or must expect to be awarded a 1st class honours degree, an MSc with Distinction or equivalent GPA scores. We will normally reject your application if you have not achieved this level of qualification.

How to apply
Applications for 2010 studentships should be made on-line using the On-line Application System. You must register with our application system before submitting an application. Please read the instructions below BEFORE filling in the form and make sure that you have all the information that we need.

You may list up to three Scottish universities that you would like to consider your application. You must submit an application to your preferred (1st choice) University, using their application procedures, and your SICSA prize studentship application will not be considered until you have done this. You do not need to submit an application to your 2nd or 3rd choices universities – we will contact you if necessary about these.

Your SICSA prize studentship application MUST include:

• details of your undergraduate qualifications (and MSc qualifications if you have them)
• your preferred SICSA Institution/s.
• a copy of the transcript of your marks, which you must upload as an attachment
• a research proposal, which you must upload as an attachment

You may include details of any industrial experience you have which is relevant to your application and your SICSA research proposal and you may upload a list of publications (if you have had any of your work published.

You will not be asked to upload copies of your references, nor submit details of your referees. If a university wishes to nominate you for a SICSA studentship, they will forward the references they have received as part of your application to the Graduate Academy Board.

To be considered in March 2010, applications must be received by the deadline of 28th February 2010. Remember, you have to fill in both a university application form and a SICSA prize studentship application form.

Tentative Application Deadline : 28 February 2010

Homepage: http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/

The Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), constructed as an interuniversity consortium, is housed within the Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven. ECOOM develops a consistent system of R&D and Innovation (RD&I) indicators for the Flemish government. This indicator system is designed to assist the Flemish government in mapping and monitoring the RD&I efforts in the Flemish region. Within this context, ECOOM is the pre-eminent Flemish site for the study and application of advanced bibliometric techniques in the evaluation of research, and has become a prominent
research centre of international visibility.

Your opportunities
The research fellow assists in the processing, development, statistical analysis and interpretation of data, intended to initiate, structure, process and report research results. In particular, the research fellow will process and analyse publication and citation data. Junior fellows are expected to obtain a PhD during their appointment.

• You collaborates in the modelling of complex research problems and applies corresponding analyses.

Your profile

• Applicants for a post of junior researcher hold a university diploma and have the skills necessary to work with the bibliographic databases and bibliometric indicators based on journal publications, and should have an interest in bibliometric methods, quantitative science studies and quantitative aspects of communication in science and research policy.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is essential.

Our offer
We offer an employment as full-time docotral scholar starting at the 2010, June 1st, for 1 year, rewenable till 4 years.

Interested?
Please visit http://www.kuleuven.be/vacatures and apply online.

For more information about the job description, please contact Prof. dr. W. Glänzel, Wolfgang.Glanzel@econ.kuleuven.be
tel:+32 16 325713
Applications must be received no later than 31 March 2010.

The applicant cannot be a Danish citizen, except if the applicant has legally resided and had his/her main activity in a non–associated third country for at least three of the last four years immediately prior to his/her employment. Further, applicants must not have resided or performed their main activity i

Eligibility Criteria:
To be eligible to apply you must have applied for a place on a full-time postgraduate taught degree, have an international fee liability and are self-financing to some extent. You will also need to demonstrate academic excellence and / or significant achievement in your chosen field of study.

Application Deadline: 1 April 2010.

Application Procedure:
You will need to complete an International Postgraduate Scholarship application form (MS Word), and return it to:
Bursaries & Scholarships Officer
Student Support RHB 124
Goldsmith, University of London
New Cross
London SE14 6NW.

Selection Criteria:
All applications will be assessed on academic merit only – financial circumstances will not be taken into account.

The ECBC is a member of the Competence Network ‘Institutions and Institutional Change in Post-Socialist Countries: Between Historicity and Global Convergence,’which is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. In the context of this initiative, we are offering a scholarship for a Ph.D. research position at the Centre.

The position is available from spring 2010 for an initial duration of 3 years. We are looking for an excellent graduate of economics, the humanities or the social science with interest in interdisciplinary empirical research, with a good background in quantitative methods, an excellent command of and a good proficiency in Russian. The research is expected to focus on the comparative study of fiscal structure and regional economic development in Russia and China, with a special emphasis on historical and cultural factors.

Our Ph.D. programme offers rigorous in theoretical and empirical economics and finance. Research form an integral part of the institution and are closely integrated in research conducted at the ECBC. The Ph.D student will work under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (Academic Director of the ECBC) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Libman, together boffering a strong back-up in institutional economics, Chinese and Russian area studies, and econometrics.

Frankfurt School offers the infrastructure of one of Europe’s top business schools, the opportunity to participate in high-quality applied research as well as excellent contacts to the financial community. Further information on Frankfurt School is available at www.frankfurt-school.de

If you are interested, please submit your application – curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests, academic transcripts (courses taken and grades), contact information for 2 academic references, sample research paper or master thesis – electronically or by mail until March 15th, indicating the earliest date at which you could take up the position, to:
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management,
Claudia Kuckelmann,
Administration Office,
Sonnemannstrasse 9-11,
60314 Frankfurt / Germany;
c.kuckelmann@frankfurt-school.de;
Tel.: +49 69 154008-208

Interested candidates are also invited to contact Prof. Dr. Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (c.hermannpillath@frankfurt-school.de) for detailed information about the position.

Research projects are incorporated in faculty research groups, which are all part of one of the research programmes of the inter-university research schools Ius Commune and Human Rights. Ius Commune research responds to the increasing need for comparative law and the Europeanization and internationalization of the law. It focuses on European private law (contracts, tort, civil procedure, property, family law, corporate law); comparative constitutional and administrative law, European law (institutions and substantive), international economic law and intellectual property law. Within the domain of Human Rights the focus is on globalisation and human rights and on criminal law in an international context. For more information on the research programmes and contact persons click here.

Faculty researchers also take advantage of the academic setting within the Faculty Institutes, such as the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, The METRO Institute for Transnational Legal Research, The Institute for Globalisation and International regulation (IGIR), the Maastricht Montesquieu Institute, the Maastricht Forensic Institute tMFI and the Institute for Corporate Law ICGI, Governance and Innovation Policies and the Maastricht Graduate School of Law.

The Maastricht Graduate School of Law offers PhD researchers and talented honours students a stimulating and internationally oriented environment for legal research, supervision and education. The School now hosts almost 60 PhD Researchers, half of whom are foreign nationals. For all current PhD-projects click here

Requirements
University graduated Masters with relevant degrees and excellent grades. Motivated and determined researchers possessing first-rate analytical and writing skills in English and preferably also in Dutch. Candidates are invited to apply with their own research proposals (using the Applicationform 2010, which can be downloaded through the attach below on this page) which should fit within one of the faculty research themes. For current faculty research themes click here

Conditions of employment
Your salary would be € 2.042,- gross per month in the first year up to € 2.612,- gross per month in the fourth year according to the PhD-student salary.

The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ , A-Z Terms of Employment.

Contract type
Temporary 4 years

Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law contains six departments:Private Law (Civil Law, Company and Business Law), Public Law (Constitutional, Administrative and Social Law), International and European Law, Criminal Law and Criminology, Foundations and Methods of Law and Tax Law. Research is conducted within the inter-faculty research schools Ius Commune and Human Rights and in the faculty research institutes, one of them being the Maastricht Graduate School of Law.

The Maastricht Graduate School of Law offers PhD researchers and talented students research-, supervision- and education-facilities.

PhD researchers join the faculty department in the field linked to the theme of their research proposal.

Additional information
Additional information may be obtained from
Dr. Jos Hamers (Associate director Maastricht Graduate School of Law),
Tel +31 43 388 3248 /2067,
E-mail: j.hamers@maastrichtuniversity.nl or
Mrs. Frederike Vernimmen – de Jong LLM (Program manager Maastricht Graduate School of Law),
Tel. + 31 43 388 2027/2067,
E-mail: Frederike.vernimmen@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
For more information regarding faculty research themes please contact the relevant programme manager via www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/graduateschooloflaw/PhDresearchprogramme

Successful applicants will begin their PhDs in September/October 2010 as part of the scheme run by The Bloomsbury Colleges (a consortium made up of Birkbeck, Institute of Education, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Royal Veterinary College, School of Oriental and African Studies, and The School of Pharmacy). Each student will be guided by two academics – a lead supervisor from one of the Bloomsbury Colleges and a collaborating supervisor from another. This joint supervision approach will promote interdisciplinary research, a primary aim of LIDC. The Colleges, via the consortium, will provide Studentships to include tuition fees and a stipend. LIDC is committed to contributing a total of approximately £31,000 towards the field research costs across the five development Studentships.

Background
The Bloomsbury PhD Studentships were created to promote cross-College collaboration, particularly in areas likely to benefit from interdisciplinary work. They are awarded every year for a range of topics, including international development.

Applications
Click here for more information and to apply. The Studentships cover the cost of UK/EU tuition fees and a maintenance stipend. Applications are welcome from students of all nationalities. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2010.

Contact:
LIDC,
36 Gordon Square, London,
WC1H 0PD, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7958 8251
Fax: +44 (0) 20 3073 8303
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