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International PhD Scholarship at Lancashire Business School, UK

Applications are invited for a full-time scholarship available in the Lancashire Business School. 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 this PhD project is to analyse economic impacts of preferential trade agreements between the EU and the chosen developing countries. GLOBE computable general equilibrium model and the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) representation of Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database will be used to simulate various trade liberalisation scenarios, depending on the contents of the preferential trade agreements. The main focus will be on economic effects of such preferential trade agreements on developing economies. Depending on the applicant’s research interests, developing countries chosen can either be i-)Latin American, ii-) African or Asian economies. When deciding about the developing countries, the student needs to make sure that they are in Global Trade Analysis Project’s (GTAP) database, which is the main database that will be used for this project. Applicants will need to justify their choice of developing countries during the application and interview processes. They will produce a research proposal of not more than 2,000 words that outline and justify the proposed research question, identify any additional data requirements and detail the proposed work programme.


Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 May 2011

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International PhD Scholarship, Lancashire Business School, UK

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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Aspire 2011 Scholarship Programme, UK: Management studies

UCD Smurfit School is delighted to announce the launch of the Aspire Scholarship Programme 2011.  These scholarships are great news for students who may have thought a Masters Degree at UCD Smurfit School was beyond their means.  We are offering up to 3 MBA and 9 MSc scholarships.  The successful applicants will receive 50% of their tuition fees for their chosen MSc or MBA programme. If you have the drive and initiative to study at UCD Smurfit School but are being held back by your personal financial circumstances, one of these scholarships could be for you. Welcome to our ‘Aspire 2011’ scholarship programme. Now in its second year, this exciting initiative offers you a unique opportunity to study at Ireland’s leading business school, starting next September. We have received generous funding from a donor – who has chosen to remain anonymous – to provide: Up to 3 MBA scholarships; and  Up to 9 scholarships for any of our other Masters programmes. for study starting in September 2011.
These scholarships are intended by the donor as a contribution to the recovery of the Irish economy. They are specifically for those who could not otherwise afford to study at UCD Smurfit School. If you have the talent, the drive and the initiative to study successfully at UCD Smurfit School and to go on to a successful career in Ireland, but are being held back by your personal financial circumstances, one of these scholarships could be for you. They represent an extraordinary gesture of belief in the resilience of this country by the donor and we are hugely grateful for the generosity shown.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 25 April 2011

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