[UK] Sheffield Hallam University: PhD Research Studentships on Sports Engineering, Biomechanics and the Modelling of Sport and Health

Bursary £13,290 Tuition fees
Full time for 3 years

The Sports Engineering Research Group within the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing employs approximately 20 staff comprising research engineers, designers, sports scientists and PhD students. Clients include Adidas, Prince, Puma, UK Sport, British Swimming and the International Tennis Federation.

Following a very successful Research Assessment Exercise, the Sports Engineering Research Group in collaboration with the Health and Social Care Research Centre is seeking to recruit outstanding candidates to carry out multi-disciplinary PhD projects.

[Belgium] Master of Environmental Sanitation at Gent University: Vlir-Uos Scholarship Programme 2010

The growing awareness of the impact of human activities on the environment and the resulting threat to both nature and man have convinced most governments of the need to include prevention of air, water and soil pollution as well as the sanitation of polluted sites in their priority action programmes. Since relatively few people have so far been trained to properly address pollution issues, it is imperative that, in addition to research into environmental matters, the education and training of specialists in pollution prevention and remediation are given urgent attention in every country.

[Sweden] Linkopings University: PhD Position in Design and Optimization of Wireless Networks, and Digital Signal Processing for Communications Receivers

LINKÖPINGS UNIVERSITET invites applications for position as GRADUATE STUDENT IN COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS formally based at Department of Electrical Engineering

The division of communications systems (www.commsys.isy.liu.se) preforms research and education in the general area of digital and wireless communications. Current projects deal with the design and optimization of wireless networks, and digital signal processing for communications receivers. We work with applied problems as well as with more mathematical/fundamental questions.

[Europe][Japan] Masters on Photonic Networks Engineering (MAPNET): Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 2010

The MAsters on Photonic NETworks engineering (MAPNET) is a masters programme under the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Programme. In particular, MAPNET is a full-time, two-year, international programme offered by a consortium of four universities and with the support of five international enterprises acting as associated members.

MAPNET Consortium

• Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – Italy, acting as Coordinator;
• Aston University – UK;
• Technische Universität Berlin – Germany;
• Osaka University – Japan.

[Italy] The XXV Cycle International PhD Open Positions 2010 at University of Catania

The University of Catania for the XXV cycle has activated the PhD Courses, included those of the Scuola Superiore di Catania, as shown below:

• Agricultural Engineering
• Phytosanitary Technologies and Defense of Agroecosystems
• Pharmaceuticals Sciences
• European Policies of Procedural and Criminal Law and Judicial Cooperation
• Electronic Engineering, Automation and Control of Complex Systems Engineering
• Microbiology
• Neuropharmacology
• Applied Mathematics
• Chemistry
• Administrative Law
• Energy
• Nano Science

[Europe] Erasmus Mundus 2010 MSc Scholarships in Photonics

Five leading research and educational institutions in Europe are collaborating to offer a joint Erasmus Mundus Master of Science program in Photonics, providing a top-quality eduction in all aspects of photonics. The master programme has a duration of two years (120 ECTS points), with students spending a year in two different countries.

[Italy] The 2010 PhD Positions in Human and Social Sciences, University of Florence

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE EUROPEAN DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN THE HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
CURRICULUM IN ‘EUROPE AND THE INVENTION OF MODERNITY’

Educational project

The aim of the doctoral programme is to give young researchers advanced training in the historic disciplines, viewed in the context of the current international debate on historiography, and to equip them with the tools they need to interpret historiography in relation to the other human and social sciences. Students will also receive instruction in techniques for accessing sources, and in the peculiar methodologies and procedures of historic research. The programme is not only designed for scholars specializing in modern history, but covers a long period ranging from the end of the Middle Ages through to the contemporary age. The doctorate has a specifically European perspective, not only as regards its scientific objectives but also in the way it is structured, bringing together as it does five research and research training institutions in four different nations. Using the resources at their disposal, the five institutions intend to establish a dialogue between different historiographic traditions within a unitary discourse, a fundamental goal for achieving a better understanding of Europe today.

[Belgium] Master of Ecological Marine Management, ECOMAMA, In Vlir-Uos Scholarship Programme 2010

This two-year programme will provide the students with a strong fundamental and applied background in marine sciences, marine research and management skills. The first year of the master programme mainly addresses basic marine science disciplines such as Physical and Chemical Oceanography, Marine Ecology and Biodiversity, Marine Pollution and Ecotoxicology, Marine Microbiology, Marine Ecophysiology, Molecular Ecology of the Marine Environment, Tropical Coastal Biocomplexity, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Climatology and Climate Change, Introduction to GIS, Information Retrieval, Management and Presentation, Practical exercises, field training and seminars on development cooperation. While the second year of the master programme focuses on research and the scientific approach to management issues.

[Germany] PhD Studentship at the International Graduate School: Structure, Reactivity, and Properties of Oxide Materials

International Graduate School under the Elitenetzwerk Bayern
Structure, Reactivity and Properties of Oxide Materials

PhD studentships are available for the duration of three years in the International Graduate School ‘Structure, Reactivity, and Properties of Oxide Materials’, that is funded by the Bayerisches Elitenetzwerk (Bavarian Elite Network). Students will be based either at the University of Bayreuth ( Bayerisches Geoinstitut or Institute for Inorganic Chemistry) or at the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research in Würzburg.

Research projects will be interdisciplinary, within the fields of Earth sciences (e.g. mineral physics, contact: F. Langenhorst, D. Rubie, G. Steinle-Neumann), solid-state chemistry (J. Breu), and materials sciences (G. Müller, F. Raether).

[South Africa] The Tata Africa Master and Doctoral Scholarships 2009/2010

Call for Entries

The Tata Africa Scholarships have been in existence since 2006 and have grown from strength to strength over the years. This year, a total of 40 scholarships have been made available to students across South Africa. Tata Africa Scholarship Awards are awarded for post-graduate studies at Masters or Doctoral level, in the following areas:

• Build Environment;
• Computer/Information Sciences;
• Engineering;
• Mathematics/Statistics;
• Financial Management;
• Life Sciences; and
• Natural Sciences