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PhD Programme at CCSR and University of Manchester
The Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR) and the Social Statistics Discipline Area at the University of Manchester is offering a PhD programme in Quantitative Social Science and Social Statistics.
CCSR is a multidisciplinary research centre in the School of Social Sciences. Part of Manchester’s top-rated Sociology submission in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, [...]
PhD Studentship: Healthy Environments, Queen Mary
The Department of Geography at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has the following award available for those wishing to commence their studies in September 2010.
1 x Full PhD Studentship to award to a student to work on the Department’s Healthy Environments Research Programme (HERP). Applications are encouraged utilising quantitative and/or qualitative methodologies in the [...]
Seminar on Fertility and Poverty: micro and macro linkages
The Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty, and Policy at the University of Southampton School of Social Sciences, in conjunction with the ESRC are holding a Seminar on Fertility and Poverty, focusing on micro and macro linkages.
The seminar takes from on the 28th and 29th of January.
A limited number of bursaries are available to UK [...]
Post Doc in Mobility Studies, Switzerland
MOVE is the Swiss interdisciplinary network for mobility studies, linking the universities of Neuchâtel (leading house), Berne, Lausanne, and Zürich. In addition to having created the Swiss Chair for Mobility Studies (a visiting professorship), MOVE offers grants for post-doctoral studies on topics related to the mobility of persons, ideas, goods and institutions.
The candidate who will [...]
Placement Fellowship Opportunity with ONS
As part of its Placement Fellowship Scheme the ESRC welcomes applications from academics interested in working in a research capacity in the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The Scheme encourages social science researchers to spend time within a partner organisation to undertake policy relevant research and to develop the research skills of partner employees. The [...]
PHD Studentship – Health Inequalities – University of Glasgow
The Faculty of Medicine Graduate School, University of Glasgow are offering the following fully-funded PhD studentship with Prof. R Mitchell and Dr. Jamie Pearce.
Physical activity in green space: a mechanism for reducing health inequalities?
Having a lot of ‘green space’ (such as parks or woodlands) in your neighbourhood is thought to be health promoting. Inequality [...]
New research vacancies at UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)
Applications are invited for seven new research posts within UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) funded by the EPSRC, GLA ECONOMICS and JISC.
In brief they are:
2 x Research associates with the SCALE project
1 x PhD Studentship with the SCALE project
1 x Research associate with TOTeM project
1 x Research technician with TOTeM project
1 x Research [...]
Marie Curie Fellowships applications 2009
The Oxford Institute of Ageing would be more than happy to host joint applications with prospective Fellows and invites applications for the Marie Curie fellowships detailed below.
The Oxford Institute of Ageing (OIA), University of Oxford, is a multi-disciplinary research institute which believes that the production of high quality, strategic research, which informs and is informed [...]
MSc Scholarships in Population Studies at LSE
Master’s degrees in population studies: £15,000 scholarships available
Are you thinking about doing a Master’s degree in the field of population studies in 2009/2010?
Students accepted for the
MSc in Population and Development, or
MSc Health, Population and Society, or
MSC Social Research Methods (Population)
at the LSE will be eligible to be considered for nomination for a £15,000 scholarship from [...]
The Joanna Stillwell Prize for Population Geography Dissertations
The Joanna Stillwell Prize for Population Geography Dissertations
The Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) of the RGS-IBG has set up three prizes (£100 for 1st; £50 for 2nd; £25 for 3rd) to be awarded for the best undergraduate dissertations of 2009 in the broad field of Population Geography.
Would you or your colleagues like to nominate [...]