BIGSSS Ph.D Fellowships 2015

BIGSSS Ph.D Fellowships 2015


Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences- BIGSSS invites applications to its PhD programme scheduled to commence on September 1, 2015.


BIGSSS offers 15 Ph.D. stipends of 1,300 euros/ month for 36 months, contingent on successful completion of each year. To support its Ph.D. fellows in achieving early scientific independence, it also provides funds for conducting, presenting and publishing research. There is no separate funding application, because all admitted applicants receive a stipend.


Successful applicants will pursue a topic in one of the three fields: global governance and regional integration, welfare state, inequality and quality of life, changing lives in changing socio-cultural contexts.

Eligibility: Candidates must have an MA degree (or national equivalents like the German “Diplom” or “Magister”) in a discipline related to political science, sociology, psychology, or related social science disciplines like.law, economics or mass communication. The degree must be completed by the end of July 2015 as well as display proficiency in English

Deadline: February 15, 2015

For more information visit : https://www.bigsss-bremen.de/

University of Dundee Clinical PhD Programme 2009

The University of Dundee is internationally recognized as a centre of excellence for life sciences research. The Wellcome Trust has funded an exciting new scheme to provide training opportunities in basic science to young clinicians. The aim of the programme is to nurture and develop the talents of the brightest junior doctors for academic medical research. This programme is located in the College of Life Sciences and in the College of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing. This programme began in September 2008, when 5 clinical research fellows were appointed.

Additional fellowships are now available to start in September 2009. These are open to young clinicians who intend to pursue a career in academic medicine. For successful applicants, this training programme will provide:

A PhD research project in a key basic science discipline within a well-resourced, world-class environment for science & medicine

Highly experienced supervisors with an excellent track record in basic research

A clinical mentoring programme closely linked with the postgraduate deanery

A unique 8 week full-time introductory course in laboratory techniques

Successful applicants are likely to have completed Foundation Training at the time of application. They will be expected to register for a PhD with the University of Dundee.

Contact Details:wtclinicalphd@dundee.ac.uk

University College Dublin, Ireland Ph.D. Research Opportunity

Ph.D. Research Opportunity
Commencing September 2008
Investigation of radiative energy losses from tungsten plasmas.

The next generation fusion reactor ITER, being built at Cadarache will use tungsten as a wall material. Although a lot of data already exists, more work needs to be done to understand the behaviour of tungsten ions in hot plasma. The project first addresses the need for spectral line and unresolved line array identification in tungsten plasmas for use as a plasma diagnostic and also explores the radiation loss mechanisms from moderately ionised tungsten ions and the potential problems that may arise in attaining the temperatures required for fusion should the ion density become large enough.

The research will be carried out in the Atomic, Molecular and Plasma Physics Group at UCD ).

The candidate will have or expect to receive a 1st or upper 2nd class honours degree.

Interested candidates should forward their C.V. to:
Prof. Gerry O’Sullivan,
School of Physics,
University College Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin 4.
Email : gerry.osullivan@ucd.ie