The University of Central Lancashire Funding International PhD Scholarship in Impact of Children’s Commissioners and Ombudsmen 2011, UK
Study Subject: Economic Impacts of EU’s Preferential Trade Agreements on Developing Countries
Employer: The University of Central Lancashire
Level: PhD
Scholarship Description: Applications are invited for a full-time scholarship available in the School of Social Work. The scholarship is tenable for up to 3 years for a PhD (via MPhil route) [subject to satisfactory progress] and is open to international applicants only. UK/EU applicants are not eligible to apply. The scholarship will provide £15000 towards the cost of the International tuition fee over 3 years. The project is part of an international collaborative study of Children’s Commissioners and Ombudsmen, or ‘independent children’s rights institutions’, directed by Professor Thomas with colleagues in Switzerland and the United States (the Research Group on Ombudspersons for Children – RGOC). The international study is focused on how models of independent children’s rights institutions map onto different national contexts, on criteria for independence, and on ways of measuring impact. This particular project will be looking at the latter question.
The aim is to develop methods and instruments for assessing the impact of independent children’s rights institutions on children’s lives, on policies for children and young people, on societal attitudes to children and on children’s participation in society. The research student will be invited to complete a thorough review of the relevant literature, and then to conduct an empirical enquiry, targeted on one or more independent children’s rights institutions, which will be designed to explore and test the reliability and validity of different approaches to measuring impact.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 May 2011
16 April 2011
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Full-time Masters Scholarships at University of Westminster in UK- 2011
Study Subject:Any
Employer: University of Westminster
Level:Masters
Scholarship Description:You must be a faculty member of one of our partner institutions and hold an offer for a full-time Masters degree.The University offers Capacity Building Scholarships to upgrade your skills if you are a faculty member of one of our partner colleges at home or overseas. The value of the scholarship varies depending on need. Please contact the Scholarships Office for full details if you fall into this category.
Scholarship Application Deadline:31 May 2011
09 January 2011
Postgraduate Scholarship at Oxford
Postgraduate Scholarships at the University of Oxford for Chinese students
Study Subject:Any
Employer: Oxford University
Level:Postgraduate
Scholarship Description: The Fund was founded in 1992 to award scholarships to the best Chinese graduates to assist them to take up places to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford and then return to contribute in leadership positions to the future development of China.
It is actively campaigning to raise ?25 million to endow twenty to twenty-five scholarships at Oxford solely for Chinese students. It seeks to emulate the success of the Rhodes Scholarship programme, which has helped educate many distinguished American men and women over the last century, amongst them President Bill Clinton. It is this level of excellence that the Fund seeks to emulate.
The Fund sees leadership in terms wider than the political or commercial. It aims to help those who will mould China’s industry and finance, to manage its world-beating manufacturing corporations, to set trends, styles and fashion and to lead its world-class scholarship and research. Leaders, in fact, who will stimulate, formulate and drive the changes which will come to all parts of society in China’s 21st Century.
The Fund is seeking to establish permanent funding for future generations of Chinese scholars in Oxford by attracting donors with the vision to invest in China’s future and by seeking out students of rare talent who would benefit from the Fund’s help.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 15th April 2011
Further Scholarship Information and Application
08 January 2011
PhD Scolarship in King College London
Excellence Fellowship Programme to Recruit and Develop Outstanding Early Career Researchers
Study Subject: Mental Health and Neurosciences
Employer: Kings College London
Level: PhD
Scholarship Description: As part of its strategy to continuously enhance & renew its research profile, the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London is launching its new Excellence Fellowship Programme to recruit and develop outstanding early career researchers.
These prestigious awards will allow young scientists to develop their independent careers as world class academic leaders in their chosen field within mental health and neurosciences. They will also have the opportunity to collaborate in research programmes within the Institute of Psychiatry.
Excellence Fellowships provide a competitive salary initially for three years as well as appropriate start up support as a foundation on which to launch their own programme of work. Recipients of these awards will be in a position to compete for academic positions within King’s College London and / or career development or senior fellowships from funders such as the Research Councils.
Scholarship Application Deadline: 3 February 2011
15 April 2009
United Kingdom - Cranfield University PhD Position in Robust Navigation and Path Planning for ExoMars Rovers
Cranfield University
Department of Informatics and Sensors
Under the Aurora Exploration Program, the European Space Agency (ESA) developed the concept and lunched the preparation activities of the ExoMars mission. This mission will start in 2013 whereas the flight will last nearly one year and has as objectives the following:
* To search for signs of past and present life on Mars;
* To characterize the water/geo-chemical environment as a function of depth in the
shallow subsurface;
* To study the surface environment and identify hazards to future human missions;
* To investigate the planet’s subsurface and deep interior to better understand the evolution and habitability of Mars.
ExoMars will consist of an orbiter, a descent module and a six wheeled rover. The first European rover on Mars will carry a drill that can burrow up to 2 m into the Martian surface allowing its scientific instruments to analyse and sample the soil and search for mineral content, composition and traces of past and present life. Once the descent module carried out by the ExoMars spacecraft achieves landing on Mars surface safely, the rover, which will carry, in addition to the drill, Pasteur scientific instruments along with a sample processing system, will be responsible of the navigation and the exploration of Mars planet.
One major advantage that the ExoMars rover will have over Nasa’s rovers is that it will be doted with enough intelligence to operate autonomously, making its own decisions about picking the best routes on his way of surface exploration.
Cranfield University, and EADS-Astrium have defined a program of research on “Robust navigation and path planning for ExoMars rovers”. This is a three-year program undertaken by a PhD student, and involves original research work either developing entirely new techniques of study, or concerned with the application of novel and existing ideas in new ways.
The area of work proposed by EO group, DCMT, Cranfield University and EADS-Astrium is to be based around the increase of the rover mission autonomy for the ExoMars mission under the Aurora program. It concerns the investigation, the design and the validation of solutions to autonomous robotic navigation and trajectory planning using visual sensors with the affordable minimum of power.
The PhD project has the ambition to tackle autonomy issues, for the ExoMars rovers (and other future robotic exploration missions), in terms of accurate visual navigation and robust path planning concept by proposing innovative integrated methodologies able to be validated with space mission constraints. We will opt for approaches that look into how to improve the localization of the rovers by using robust visual natural features from the environment and then plan robot efficiently online trajectories which full fulfill mission requirements. These approaches will be linked to a robust optimization framework that will be applied to vision, path planning, low level control and estimation strategies guaranteeing the precision of the vehicle localization and motion with safe and power optimal trajectories and fault tolerance to navigation systems issues. The produced position estimates and generated robot trajectories will be robust to outliers and faults. The produced strategies will make sure to take robot kinematics and dynamic constraints in addition to the nature of the terrain where the rovers is progressing in his task. The concept and solutions proposed in this work will be useful not only for the ExoMars rover mission but also for all other missions where autonomy of deployed robotic systems is of crucial importance.
The research work will incorporate aspects of the following areas of interest:
* Robotic Kinematics and dynamic modeling
* Navigation and robust estimation (based on Linfinty optimization)
* 3D vision (Robust stereo vision) and robust image processing
* Path Planning and decision making of autonomous agents.
* Fault diagnosis and reconfiguration.
* Real time validation taking into account space mission requirements.
Entry Requirements:
For this research studentship, we are seeking a talented graduate, having (or be expected to obtain) at least an upper second class honours degree (first class honours preferred), MSc or equivalent in electrical engineering or computer science. Good mathematical background and experience of robotics, vision, control and path planning, data/information fusion and real time systems would be most desirable.
Eligibility:
We are looking for a high quality European student. The studentship is for three years and provides payment of tuition fees at the UK/EU rate plus a £13,000 per annum (normally tax free) contribution to living expenses. For exceptionally good international students only fees will be considered for payement with no stipend allowed.
