[Hong Kong] Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2010/11

Experience world-class academic facilities and research opportunities in Asia’s world city
The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme has been launched by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong in 2009. The Fellowship Scheme aims to attract the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their PhD degree programmes in Hong Kong.

The Fellowship will provide an annual stipend of HK$240,000 (approximately US$30,000) and a conference and research-related travel allowance of HK$10,000 (approximately US$1,300) per year for a maximum period of three years.

[Hong Kong] Fully Funded Research MPhil/PhD Programmes in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong, 2010-2011

Fully funded Research Postgraduate Degree in English

The School of English of the University of Hong Kong, which has an international academic staff and postgraduate student body working in many areas of linguistics, offers full- and part-time research postgraduate programmes for MPhil and PhD degree.

[Hong Kong] The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) PhD Student Recruitment 2010 in Computer Science and Engineering

[Hong Kong] The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) PhD Student Recruitment 2010 in Computer Science and Engineering

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is recruiting PhD students to start in Fall 2010. We are looking for outstanding undergraduate students as well as outstanding graduate students with master’s degree with some research experience. We are looking for postgraduate students in all areas in computer science and related areas, including but not limited to, artificial intelligence, data and knowledge management, networks and networking systems, software technologies, theoretical computer science and vision and graphics. We also encourage students interested in multi-disciplinary areas such as bioinformatics, risk management and business intelligence and computational finance.

[Hong Kong] PhD Studentships in Applied Linguistics and Professional Communication at City University of Hong Kong

The Department of English at City University of Hong Kong announces the availability of studentships and research tuition scholarships for study leading towards Ph.D. degrees in Linguistics and Communication.

The Department of English at the City University of Hong Kong offers a range of programmes and courses in English for Professional Communication, Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language, Bilingual Education, English for Specific Purposes, English for Academic Purposes, English Literature, Cultural Studies, English Language Studies, and European Languages. We have an outstanding international faculty, including many world-renowned scholars in the fields of Applied Linguistics and Professional Communication. Each year, members of the department produce a range of international and local publications, including books, journal articles, and book chapters, and also present their work at major academic conferences all over the world.

[Hong Kong]Fulltime PhD Studentship in Sustainable Development at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Recruitment of Fulltime PhD Student
Knowledge Management + Sustainable Development

Department of Building & Real Estate
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Department has the following PhD student place funded under the Faculty’s Sustainable Urbanization Research Fund Scheme (SURF) and would like to invite applications from prospective candidates:

[Hong Kong] The Chinese University of Hong Kong Scholarships for International Students 2009

Founded in 1963, The Chinese University of Hong Kong offers around 50 undergraduate programmes with majority of them taught in English. We have been ranked 38 in the world’s top university 2007 by Times Higher Education Supplement.

Over 10 scholarships funded by the Hong Kong Government as well as private donations are available for international students commencing full-time undergraduate studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in September 2009.

[Hong Kong] PhD Scholarship in Industrial and System Engingeering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University

We are looking for an excellent student to pursue PhD with the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Basically, the student will work under a Hong Kong CERG funded research project titled “On Relating Online Reviews to Quality Function Deployment in Engineering Design”. The project focuses on intelligently analyzing the online product reviews and linking them for optimal decision making in product design through quality function deployment. We are particularly interested in students with strong background in text processing, machine learning, datatext mining and optimization. Knowledge on quality function deployment and engineering design is preferred, but not compulsory.

[Hong Kong] PhD Studentships in Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Studies at City University of Hong Kong

The Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong announces the availability of studentships for study leading towards Ph.D. degrees in linguistics and cross-cultural studies.

Areas of Study

The studentships will be available for the following broad areas of study (listed in alphabetical order):

• Computational/ Corpus Linguistics
• Cultural and Cross-Cultural Studies
• Discourse and text analysis
• Linguistics and language studies (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, etc)
• Syntax and Semantics
• Translation Studies