UK: Postgraduate Research Studentships 2009 in the Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England

Following the Faculty’s strong performance in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, we are offering eight fully-funded studentships for Postgraduate Research, supported by the Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Research Development Fund. Four of these are available to study in the School of the Built and Natural Environment and four in the Bristol Institute of Technology.

The eight studentships will be linked to research areas which have demonstrated excellence and which are of future strategic importance and you will work with an established group of active researchers and research students, with a strong research record. Applications are invited which focus on one of the following research areas:

Bristol Institute of Technology

*Artificial Intelligence: Professor Larry Bull (larry.bull@uwe.ac.uk)
*Unconventional Computing: Professor Andrew Adamatzky (andrew.adamatzky@uwe.ac.uk)
*Large-scale, Distributed Information Systems; Medical, Clinical and Healthcare Informatics: Professor Richard McClatchey (richard.mcclatchey@uwe.ac.uk)
*Bio-sensing Technology: Dr Janice Kiely (janice.kiely@uwe.ac.uk)
*Machine Vision and Medical Technology: Professor Melvyn Smith (melvyn.smith@uwe.ac.uk)
*Robotics: Professor Chris Melhuish (chris.melhuish@uwe.ac.uk)

Built and Natural Environment

*Planning, Sustainable Urban Environments, Climate Change, Sustainable Resource Management: Professor Katie Williams (katie4.williams@uwe.ac.uk), Professor James Longhurst (james.longhurst@uwe.ac.uk)
*Transport, sustainable mobility, changing travel behaviour: Professor Glenn Lyons (glenn.lyons@uwe.ac.uk)
*Construction and Construction Management, Low Carbon Building: Professor Ming Sun (ming.sun@uwe.ac.uk)
*Quaternary Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction: Dr Chris Spencer (chris.spencer@uwe.ac.uk)
Social and Cultural Geography, Tourism, Migration: Dr Jenny Hill (jennifer.hill@uwe.ac.uk) until 13th July 2009 and Dr Andrew Tallon (andrew.tallon@uwe.ac.uk) thereafter.

If you are interested in submitting an application in one of these areas, get in touch with the named contact who will be able to advise you and put you in touch with a potential Director of Studies.

All eight PGR Projects are expected to:

*Involve collaboration and knowledge exchange with an organisation or network external to the University, and to include a clear strategy for securing this engagement
*Have clear impacts – social, cultural or economic – and to include a strategy for ensuring this objective is realised.

These objectives will be included in the criteria for allocating studentships. They should be discussed with your potential Director of Studies and should be addressed in your application.

Applications will be judged on individual merit and inclusion of a topic area in the list above does not indicate that a studentship will necessarily be allocated to this topic.

You will find further information on research activity and the research interests on individual staff in the Bristol Institute of Technology by following links from: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/cems/research/groups.shtml and for the School of the Built Environment by following links from: http://www.bne.uwe.ac.uk/research/default.asp

How to apply

For application forms please contact the Faculty Graduate School Office:

For Bristol Institute of Technology research areas, Windy Hon via e-mail bitgraduateschool@uwe.ac.uk or telephone +44 (0)117 32 83309.
For Built and Natural Environment research areas, Ruth Farajian via e-mail ruth2.farajian@uwe.ac.uk or telephone +44 0117 3283012.

The deadline for applications to be received is Sunday 17 August.

Futher details go to:
http://www.bne.uwe.ac.uk/courses/pg/studentships.asp