The Scholarship Program

PhD Positions Announcement

We are looking for skillful and hard working candidates with high academic credentials/results for PhD student positions within the area of data communication, computer networks and distributed systems at SimTel Innovation, a joint research project between Simula Research Laboratory and the telecom operator, Telenor in Norway.
The PhD positions are targeted at the following research topics:
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The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral
Reef Studies is contacting people who might be interested in applying
for an ARC Future Fellowship. The ARC Centre has recruited 38
full-time research fellows in the past 3 years, working in many
fields relevant for coral reefs (e.g. biophysical sciences, climate
change, conservation planning, economics, social science, modelling).
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The University of Antwerp is a knowledge centre with 3.600 co-workers that performs ground-breaking and innovative research of international standing. The university takes special care to ensure optimum support and supervision of students, and pays constant attention to educational innovation. The university is an autonomous pluralistic institution that is committed to the enhancement of an open, democratic and multicultural society, and it pursues an equal opportunities policy
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Mapping Palestine: Cartography of Palestine in the Nineteenth Century
Department of Biblical Studies

Project Supervisor(s) Professor Keith Whitelam, University of Sheffield (K.W.Whitelam@sheffield.ac.uk)
Peter Barber, British Library

Application Deadline 30 July 2009

Project title: Mapping Palestine: Cartography of Palestine in the Nineteenth Century

Project description:
The research project will investigate the ways in which maps of Palestine in the nineteenth century, particularly those produced by the British military, played a vital role in the creation of meaning rather than providing passive representations of geographical or historical reality. It is often assumed that the scientific advances of trigonometrically-based cartography, which culminated in the Survey of Western Palestine by Conder and Kitchener, replaced biblically-inspired representations of Palestine. Sir Walter Besant claimed that ‘nothing has ever been done for the illustration and right understanding of the historical portions of the Old and New Testament, since the translation into the vulgar tongue, as this great work’. The map is deeply embedded in many reconstructions of Israelite and Palestinian history, lending a seeming factuality, objectivity and authority to narrative descriptions. However, the map, rather than lessening the gap between reality and interpretation, adds another layer to the interpretative process. This project will explore how such maps continued to be instruments of subtle persuasion and will examine carefully their assumptions and rhetorical devices. It will examine the social and political location of the cartographers and those sponsoring their work (e.g. the military, the Palestine Exploration Fund, etc.) in the context of the growth of nationalism, the nation-state, and the development of European overseas expansion. It will utilise the correspondence and private papers of cartographers, along with the paper and minutes of learned societies, in order to understand the influence of these factors on their work.
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Project Summary:
PhD and Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship positions are available in the UCD diffusion tensor imaging (UCDTI) research group. The research will
focus on determining the relationship between myocardial fibre orientations and cardiac wall motion through registration of tagged Magnetic Resonance
in-vivo data and ex-vivo Diffusion Tensor Imaging data. The goal of this work is to understand cardiac problems on a structural level by combining imaging
techniques that reveal heart fibre orientation with techniques that reveal the broad spatio-temporal dynamics of the beating heart.
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Posdoc/PhD Open Positions

Bio-Inspired Robotics Laboratory
(Director: Fumiya Iida)
Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
(ETH Zurich) Switzerland
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Two PhD Studentships
The Carbon Footprint of UK Cities
Department of Civil and Building Engineering

Applications are invited for two 3 1/2 year PhD studentships within the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University. The research will be part of the EPRSC funded 4M project: Modelling, measurement, mapping and management: an evidence based methodology for understanding and shrinking the urban carbon footprint. The project is a collaboration between Loughborough, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Leeds Universities and investigates the carbon emissions from travel and buildings, and the carbon sequestration potential of green spaces. The city of Leicester is the case-study area.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships 2010

University of Sydney
New South Wales, Australia

New Postdoctoral Fellowships are being offered to attract outstanding researchers within 2-6 years from the award of their PhD to conduct full-time research in any of the schools and departments at the University of Sydney.

These will be available from January 2010 for a maximum duration of 3 years, with a starting salary of A$76,097 and a research support grant of A$25,000.

Applications close: 11 September 2009.

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PhD student: A systems analysis of rodent animal models of human disease

Function title PhD student Where Bioinformatics Laboratory, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam Apply before July 15, 2009 Project
Model organisms have been essential for improving our knowledge of human disease. Especially rodents, mainly mouse and rat, are often used for this purpose, as well as for pre-clinical trials of new drugs and toxicology screens. However, often animal models fail to mimic human disease adequately. As a consequence drugs successfully tested in animal models fail in costly clinical trials or are falsely discarded. Goal of this project is to explore the suitability of rodents as a model organism for human disease, specifically metabolic syndrome. Since metabolic syndrome is a complex multifactorial group of metabolic conditions, a systems approach will be taken to uncover the molecular networks perturbed by disease. Specifically, we aim to validate the similarity of a large number of rodent models for metabolic syndrome to their human counterparts. The project is tightly linked to ongoing projects in biological and clinical groups at the AMC. This project is part of the second round of the BioRange programme of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC; www.nbic.nl).

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Institution/ Organization: James Cook University
Department: The Cairns Institute, FASS
Web Address: http://www.jcu. edu.au/sass/ staff/JCUPRD_ 043649.html

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics
Language analysis

Description:

Applications are invited, from suitably qualified students, to enter the PhD
program of the Language and Culture Research Group within the Cairns Institute
of James Cook University Australia. Supervision will be provided by Professors
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and R. M. W. Dixon.

Our PhD candidates undertake extensive fieldwork on a previously undescribed
(or scarcely described) language and write a comprehensive grammar of it for
their dissertation. They are expected to work on a language which is still
actively spoken, and to establish a field situation within a community in which
it is the first language. Their first fieldtrip lasts for about nine months.
After completing a first draft of the grammar, back in Cairns, they undertake a
second fieldtrip of two to three months. Fieldwork methodology centres on the
collection, transcription and analysis of texts, together with participant
observation, and judicious grammatical elicitation in the language under
description (not through the lingua franca of the country). Our main priority
areas are the languages of tropical Amazonia and the Papuan and Austronesian
languages of New Guinea. However, we do not exclude applicants who have an
established interest in languages from other areas.

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