PhD Scholarships

Project title:  Bilingualism in High Functioning Autism Supervisor/s: Professor Ianthi Tsimpli Project Overview:     The project aims to investigate the effects of bilingualism (simultaneous or sequential) in children with High Functioning Autism on performance in linguistic and cognitive tasks. The emphasis is on the...

Geoengineering is a new and exciting venture at the intersection of Engineering Science, climate science and public policy. It aims to devise and develop processes through which the climate can be actively tuned to partly offset the potentially regressive impacts of human-driven climate change. However, prior work mostly considers Geoengineering as an...

Horizon Doctoral Training Centre for the Digital Economy The Digital Economy promises to transform the ways in which we work, shop, travel, learn, socialise and play. It is transforming many aspects of society, particularly with regard to technology and provides research challenges in both technical and social areas, including: • Ubiquitous...

Starting October 2013   Based in the Digital Building Heritage Group at De Montfort University in Leicester the successful applicant for this fully funded PhD studentship will work with English Heritage, Britain’s leading public sector heritage organisation to explore methods of 3D digital interpretation of nationally important historic...

Application deadline 15 May 2013 at 12 o’clock PM Danish time. Applications are invited for two Assistant Professorships and two PhD scholarships at the Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts (CRIC), which is a consortium between AAU, AU, SDU, CBS and KU. Employment is to begin 1 August 2013 or according to agreement. ...

This Masters programme is for students with a background in economics - it deepens their existing understanding of economic methodologies and applies these to the transport sector. Students learn to use economics to first understand and then address major challenges posed by transport use and development. The emphasis is on enabling students to apply...

Our new course in Computational Economics, Financial Markets and Policy course offers a revolutionary and interdisciplinary study of macro-economics, financial modelling and ‘hands on’ training for policy design in areas such as systemic risk management. This will equip students for careers in financial regulatory institutions, the civil...

The Railway sector in the UK and around the world is currently in a period of significant growth, and offers excellent prospects for future employment for graduates in a range of disciplines. The one-year MRes in Railway Systems Integration is an interdisciplinary programme that combines a major research project with technical study to give students...

Duration: 1 year full-time Overview Ten scholarships of £5,000 each, funded by Santander Group, are available for taught Masters study at Essex for 2013-14. The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit, to students who would not otherwise be able to take up a place at Essex. Applicants must reside in one of the following...