• Study Subject: Biotechnology of Infectious Diseases
• Web Address: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/research/
• Provided By: University of Technology Sydney
• To be undertaken at: University of Technology Sydney.
• Level: Post Graduate (Research)

Availability
This scholarship is offered dependent on funds to 10 people. Open for applications from September 1, 2008 until October 31, 2008.

Payment Information
The value of this scholarship is AUD25000 (per annum). This award is to be used for living expenses and fees. This scholarship is paid fortnightly for the period of 3 years.

Research Information
This scholarship is for one of the following fields of research: BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES or MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES. It is required that your study starts no earlier than January 1, 2009 and no later than December 31, 2011.

Eligibility
This scholarship is for study in Australia for those who have achieved Honours 1 or equivalent, Honours 2a or equivalent, or Masters or equivalent.

Application Details
To apply for this scholarship you must consult the scholarship web site. Terms and conditions are subject to change. Always confirm details with scholarship provider before applying.

• Study Subject: Political theory
• Provided By: Luiss Guido Carli University
• To be undertaken at: non-Australian institutions.
• Level: Post Graduate

Availability
This scholarship is offered annually to 4 people. Open for applications until September 15, 2008.
Payment Information
The value of this scholarship is EUR11000 (total amount). This award is to be used for research. This scholarship is paid unspecified for the period of 3 years.

Research Information
This scholarship is for one of the following fields of research: POLICY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE.

Eligibility
This scholarship is for study in Italy.

Application Details
To apply for this scholarship you must apply direct to faculty. Terms and conditions are subject to change. Always confirm details with scholarship provider before applying.

Payment Information
The value of this scholarship is unspecified (per annum). This award is to be used for living expenses. This scholarship is paid unspecified for the period of 3 years.

Research Information
This scholarship is for any field of research.

Application Details
To apply for this scholarship you must apply directly to the university. Terms and conditions are subject to change. Always confirm details with scholarship provider before applying.
Contact :
Italian Embassy, Canberra
Phone: +61 2 627 33333
Fax: +61 2 62732406
Web Site: http://www.scientificambitalia.org.au
Address:
12 Greg Street
Deakin
ACT, Australia

Research Information
This scholarship is for one of the following fields of research: INFORMATION, COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCES.

Eligibility
This scholarship is for study in Australia.

Application Details
To apply for this scholarship you must apply directly to the scholarship provider. Terms and conditions are subject to change. Always confirm details with scholarship provider before applying.
Contact :
Dr. Mehran Abolhasan
University of Wollongong
Phone: +61 2 42213347
Email: mehrana@uow.edu.au

The Department of History is pleased to be able to offer bursaries equivalent to the value of fees for full-time home/EU postgraduate students.

Value of the bursary
Three tuition fee bursaries on the MRes in Environmental History (value equivalent to full-time home/EU fee).
In order to be considered you must have been offered a place on one of our programmes. Applications will be ranked according to academic merit by the Departmental Research Committee.

Student Eligibility
Students applying for entry to a taught postgraduate programme wishing to be considered for a bursary should mark clearly on their University application form that they wish to be considered for a tutition fee bursary.

The Department hopes that the successful postgraduate Masters students will wish to continue to PhD study within the Department and bursary students will be given every support in applying for external research funding, including the highly competitive AHRC studentship scheme.

General funding sources
For general sources of funding that may apply to this study opportunity, visit the page(s) below.
* General funding

Funding applies to: EU applicants (including UK)

Contacts and how to apply
Administrative contact and how to apply:
You must submit your application for admission to our postgraduate programme. Normally only applications which have been fully processed and students who have been offered admission on a conditional or unconditional basis by 10 September 2008 will be considered for a departmental bursary.
Bursary applications will be considered by the Departmental Research Committee.
If you have any further queries, please contact
Mrs Linda Bradley
Departmental Secretary
Department of History
University of Stirling
STIRLING, FK9 4LA.
Telephone: 01786 467580.
Email: linda.bradley@stir.ac.uk.

Availability
This scholarship is offered annually to an unspecified number of people. Open for applications until September 12, 2008.

Payment Information
The value of this scholarship is unspecified (per annum). This award is to be used for research. This scholarship is paid unspecified for the period of 1 year.

Research Information
This scholarship is for any field of research.

Eligibility
This scholarship is for study in Germany.

Application Details
To apply for this scholarship you must apply directly to the scholarship provider. Terms and conditions are subject to change. Always confirm details with scholarship provider before applying.

Contact :
Dr. Inge Ammering
UFSP Asien und Europa
Email: inge.ammering@access.uzh.ch
Address:
University of Zurich
Scheuchzerstrasse 21
CH-8006 Zurich
Web Address: http://www.asienundeuropa.uzh.ch/index_en.html

Availability
This scholarship is offered once only to an unspecified number of people. Dates when to submit scholarship application are not specified.

Payment Information
The value of this scholarship is unspecified (total may vary). This award is to be used for living expenses. This scholarship is paid unspecified for the period of 3 years.

Research Information
This scholarship is for one of the following fields of research: MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES.

Eligibility
This scholarship is for study in Australia. permanent residents can apply.

Application Details
To apply for this scholarship you must apply directly to the scholarship provider. You can download the application form here. Terms and conditions are subject to change. Always confirm details with scholarship provider before applying.
Contact :
Dr Dallas English (Centre Director)
The University of Melbourne
Phone: +61 3 8344 0742
Email: d.english@unimelb.edu.au
Web Site: http://www.unimelb.edu.au
Address:
The Centre for Molecular, Environmental,
Genetic & Analytica Epidemiology (MEGA
Vic, Australia

For UK citizens provides a stipend and payment of fees, and fees only for citizens of other EU states. Students from countries outside of the EU are not eligible for these studentships.

The area of biophotonics is increasingly being recognised by both research councils and the government as a niche area of growth in science. Tools developed in the area of photonics have potential applications in areas as diverse as healthcare usage to environmental monitoring. This degree scheme allows students with one particular background (e.g., physics or biology) to bridge the gap into the other subject area. The rationale is to allow them to acquire the understanding that will facilitate the future translation of tools developed in the physical sciences, often at the nano-scale, to address biological problems.

Students will gain a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of photonics and will be able to apply their inter-disciplinary expertise to the application of emerging technology platforms in a novel way to biological problems. They will develop strong analytical and data-handling skills. Future employment prospects would be within academia and industry.
General funding sources

For general sources of funding that may apply to this study opportunity, visit the page(s) below.
* General funding

Study information
Qualification: MSc Biophotonics
Study duration: 1 year
Study mode: Full Time
Start month: 27th Spetember 2008
Entry requirements: At least a 2:2 honours degree, or its equivalent, in an appropriate subject.

Value:
Studentship includes: Stipend (£3000), Tuition Fees (£3530) and Bench Fees (£1000)
Funding applies to: Other: see Funding notes
Funding notes:
For UK citizens provides a stipend and payment of fees, and fees only for citizens of other EU states. Students from countries outside of the EU are not eligible for these studentships.

Contacts and how to apply
Academic contact:
Andy Harrod, Postgraduate Admissions Sceretary.
www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/
Administrative contact and how to apply:
Please contact Andy Harrod via a.harrod@lancaster.ac.uk for details on how to apply and to express your interest as soon as possible, please enclose a copy of your cv.

The position, supported by an EPSRC doctoral award, will be concerned with the development of innovative 3D facial recognition techniques. The project is closely related to a large EPSRC project currently underway to develop robust facial recognition technology based on 3D representations of the human face captured using photometric stereo. The PhD project will aim to advance the state of the art in the field by devising novel ways to deduce identity from 3D face data using hardware and techniques developed here at UWE’s Machine Vision Laboratory.

The laboratory’s current work is being undertaken in collaboration with Imperial College, the Home Office (Scientific Development Branch), General Dynamics UK Ltd and Identity Solutions Ltd and offers a unique opportunity to work within a motivated team in an exciting and topical multidisciplinary field. Further information relating to the work can be found at: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/groups/mvl/projects/photoface.html. It is expected that the work will be published in journals and/or presented at international conferences.

This is a fixed-term studentship for 3 years. The bursary will be at the Research Council bursary rate, which is £12,600 in the academic year 2008-09, and is not subject to UK taxes. In addition, tuition fees will be waived for the duration of the bursary (3 years).

Eligibility
Applicants should hold a first or upper second class Honours degree in computing, physical sciences or engineering. Experience in programming is a requirement and applicants with a strong mathematical background are particularly welcome. A recognised English language qualification (minimum IELTS 6.5, TOEFL 600) is required if English is not your first language.

*Please note that the studentship is only available to persons who fulfil the UK residency criteria.

Application process
For further details and to apply online visit our website at www.uwe.ac.uk/jobs

Closing date: 7 September 2008

UWE is committed to creating a dynamic and diverse workforce representative of the communities we serve. We believe in fostering a working environment where equality is promoted and diversity respected and valued. If you feel the same we’d like to hear from you.

Study information
Qualification: first or upper second class Honours degree in computing, physical sciences or engineering
Study duration: Fixed-term for 3 years

Funding information
Funding applies to: UK applicants only

Contacts and how to apply
Administrative contact and how to apply: For further details and to apply online visit our website at www.uwe.ac.uk/jobs

A PhD studentship in Autonomic Communications is available following the award of recent European Union FP7 research grants. We are looking to recruit a high calibre PhD student to work in this emerging area of high importance.

Given new services and applications that impose increasing demands on the underlying network infrastructure, increased user mobility and also the emergence of wireless devices that can form spontaneous large scale “on-demand” networks, it is largely uncontested that the initial Internet design no longer fits the requirements of the emerging network and services environment. Autonomic communications strive to ease the burden of managing complex future networks by designing them so that they are self-configuring, self-organizing, self-stabilizing, self-optimizing, self-healing and self-protecting. Such networks should be able to learn and adapt to their environment (changes in topology, technology, service demands, application context, etc) thus provide much needed flexibility and functional scalability.

The autonomic communications area encompasses relevant models and architectures, tools and techniques and enabling technologies and brings together algorithms for distributed decision making, context-awareness, programmable networks and policy-based systems, among other areas. Autonomic communications concepts apply to both fixed/cellular and infrastructure-less wireless networks (ad hoc, mesh, sensor).

The studentship available will be supported by the EMANICS (European Network of Excellence for the Management of Internet Technologies and Complex Services) and Auto-l (Autonomic Internet) projects. EMANICS is a network of excellence bringing together the most prominent European institutions in this area and UCL are leaders of the autonomic management work in the project. Auto-I aspires to find a solution for the future Internet based on autonomic principles, using resource virtualisation and self-management techniques and is aligned with the International Autonomic Communications Forum (ACF). As such, we are looking for candidates with both a good computer engineering background and analytical skills. Experience of research, design/development and evaluation on network management, network virtualisation, Linux, Java, C/C++ or similar would be desirable.

Study information

• Qualification: PhD
• Study duration: 3 years
• Study mode: FT
• Start month: October 2008

Funding information
Value: c. £14,400 stipend pa plus fees at UK/EU rate
Funding applies to: EU applicants (including UK)
Application deadline: 30 September 2008
Contacts and how to apply
Academic contact:
Informal inquiries can be made to Prof. George Pavlou (g.pavlou@ee.ucl.ac.uk).
Administrative contact and how to apply:
Applicants must fulfil the normal academic requirements for acceptance for postgraduate study in the Department and applications should be made using the postgraduate application form, at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/admission/graduate-study/application-admission/ or from PhD Enquiries, +44(0) 20 7679 7307. Candidates should indicate under ‘Programme of Study’ that they are applying for “EMANICS/AUTOI - PAVLOU”. Two complete sets of the application should be sent; one to UCL Admissions and the other addressed to PhD Administrator, Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.