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International PhD Scholarship in Changing Images of the Arab World, University of Central Lancashire, UK

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Applications are invited for a full-time scholarship available in the School of Journalism, Media & Communication. 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. Political analysts for Al Jazeera have suggested the ‘Dawn of a new Arab century’ (22/2/11). Hilary Clinton has claimed that America is losing the information war to stations such as Al Jazeera and RT (6/3/11).The resilience and determination of Egyptians and other Arab nations to assert a peaceful claim to power and demand democracy challenged the Western notion of the ‘arab exception’ to the desire for democracy and thus more broadly the dominant Orientalist stereotype of the East as irrational, unchanging, emotional and autocratic.
Through a critical discourse analysis approach, this PhD thesis will explore contemporary shifts in representations of the Arab world from the war on terror to the current Arab ‘revolutions’ to consider the ways in which an Orientalist/ ‘exception’ discourse is redrawn, challenged or asserted in western and/or Arab media in 2011. Will changing political realities and the methods of political action through which Arab people attempt to assert agency (Spivak 1988) impact on the Orientalist / ‘exception’ discourse? Should we revisit this agenda to consider the impact of an increasingly globalised consumer market on representation of the Arab world? (Ritzer 2007) The thesis will examine both visual and linguistic discourses. Applicants should have, or expect to receive a qualification equivalent to a high class UK honours degree.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 May 2011

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University of Central Lancashire International PhD Scholarship: Women in Education, UK

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Applications are invited for a full-time scholarship available in the School of Education & Social Sciences. 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.  This project will examine the role, position and experience of female teachers within faith schools. In the last twenty years, the position of woman within religion has been investigated by feminist researchers, theologians and sociologists. Franke (2001) argues that the focus of feminist researchers falls into one of several categories, these are: the development of goddess cults, new religions, women as religious leaders, feminist representations of the divine, the body, sexuality and reproduction and female empowerment within religion. Whilst the role of women within religion has been examined, this has not been extended to the role of female educators as women of faith. This project will explore the roles carried out by women in various faiths, and in particular the roles they may take in religious education and faith schools. It will seek to address the issues of women as faith educators and potential faith leaders via qualitative methodologies.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 May 2011

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International PhD Scholarship, Lancashire Business School, UK

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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 aim of the research is to investigate and develop a decision-support system (based on RFID, real-time location and wireless communication) capable of informing command and control centres of fire fighters (and other emergency personnel and equipment) that have been despatched to an incident. The system will also allow command and control centres to manage the resources deployed. The work will involve collaboration with some Emergency Services in the UK and the University of Central Lancashire. Although the ultimate goal of the larger research is to develop a robust and versatile system (hardware, firmware and software) that can be deployed in general emergency situations, the aspect that is the subject of this advertisement will focus specifically on applications of the technology to fire services and will address the following tasks and associated challenges:
– Developing a device management and event processing platform/system that integrates the edge (incident frontline) and the back-end (the workflow foundation).
– Development of a management system that will allow the allocation of resources in a mobile and dynamic command and control environment.
– Creating a declarative emergency rules engine for the purpose of inferring, correlating, and executing emergency decisions based on incoming real-time event traffic.
Applicants should have, or expect to receive, a qualification equivalent to a high class UK honours degree.

Scholarship Application Deadline:Friday 13 May 2011 5pm British Summer Time

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