{"id":3706,"date":"2012-05-15T00:56:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T00:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2012-06-29T03:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T03:43:43","slug":"40-doctoral-college-studentships-at-the-university-of-brighton-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=3706","title":{"rendered":"40 Doctoral College studentships at the University of Brighton (UK)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The University of Brighton Doctoral College is inviting applications for up to 40 new Doctoral College studentships for the 2012\/2013 academic year.<\/h4>\n

Each offers funding to pursue research across a range of topics in the\u00a0arts and humanities<\/a>,\u00a0life and physical sciences<\/a>, and the\u00a0social sciences<\/a>\u00a0and will support full-time doctoral study at the university\u00a0over a three-year period<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Depending on your circumstances each studentship is worth up to \u00a355,650 over three years and covers tuition fees for UK\/EU applicants and includes a contribution of \u00a314,300 per annum towards living expenses. We would also like to hear from suitably qualified international candidates. The award will be of the same overall value, to cover international tuition fees and a contribution towards living expenses. The university will be offering up to 40 studentships. The successful candidates will be selected on academic merit and the university reserves the right to offer less than the full 40 studentships.\u00a0Closing date for applications for these studentships is 8 June 2012.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Choose to join the University of Brighton<\/strong>\u00a0as a research student and you will be part of our new university-wide Doctoral College that fully supports doctoral studies within the university’s broader research culture.<\/p>\n

Our support for researcher development has been recognised in 2012 with the prestigious European Commission HR Excellence in Research Award.<\/p>\n

You will be assisted in your discovery of new knowledge by a strong supervisory team and a researcher development programme. With many of our researchers world leaders in their fields, you will work in collaboration with the university to build specialist areas of excellence and ensure the work’s ability to impact.<\/p>\n

Transformative research<\/h3>\n

The University of Brighton is committed to delivering transformative research that has real-life positive impacts. We believe there are two types of research – applied and yet to be applied. Find out\u00a0more about our range of research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE2008) the university moved 21 places up the Times Higher Education quality league tables. Ninety-eight researchers submitted for Art and Design, securing 35 percent world leading activity, with another nine units of assessment recording world-leading research.<\/p>\n

About the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research Award<\/h3>\n

A UK-wide process, incorporating the QAA Code of Practice for Research Degree Programmes and the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, enables institutions to gain the European Commission’s ‘HR excellence in research’ badge, acknowledging alignment with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and Code of Conduct for their Recruitment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Brighton Doctoral College is inviting applications for up to 40 new Doctoral College studentships for the 2012\/2013 academic year. Each offers funding to pursue research across a range of topics in the\u00a0arts and humanities,\u00a0life and physical sciences, and the\u00a0social sciences\u00a0and will support full-time doctoral study at the university\u00a0over a three-year period. Depending […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship-bourses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}