Archive for 'Funding Opportunities' Category
PHD Studentship – Health Inequalities – University of Glasgow
TweetThe 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. [...]
New research vacancies at UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)
TweetApplications 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 [...]
Marie Curie Fellowships applications 2009
TweetThe 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 [...]
MSc Scholarships in Population Studies at LSE
TweetMaster’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 [...]
The Joanna Stillwell Prize for Population Geography Dissertations
TweetThe 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 [...]
PhD studentship in demography
TweetThe newly established ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton is pleased to announce a new PhD studentship in demography. The studentship would suit a person with good computing skills and an interest in demographic measurement, who has, or expects to have, a postgraduate degree in demography, or a related social science [...]
TWO ESRC Postgraduate Studentships in Scottish Universities
TweetScottish Human Geography Consortium TWO ESRC Postgraduate Research Studentship Opportunities (1+3/+3), 2009 start The Scottish Human Geography Consortium incorporates human geography delivery units at the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews, and Strathclyde. It provides ESRC-recognised specialist postgraduate training in the form of the Kindrogan Postgraduate Training Weekend and other activities, and has [...]
BSPS Prize 2009 – Best MSc Dissertation
TweetBSPS Prize 2009 Entries are invited for the 2009 BSPS Prize. This is awarded to the entry judged to be the best MSc. Dissertation on a demographic topic during the year 2008 (which would normally be at or around distinction level). Applicants should supply four copies of their dissertation, which do not need to be [...]
PhD studentships in Demography – Univ. of Southampton
TweetDivision of Social Statistics, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton Applications are invited for PhD studentships in demography and in social statistics in the Division of Social Statistics, University of Southampton. These are ESRC quota awards that may be on a 1+3 or +3 basis, i.e. funding for a 1-year MSc in Demography or [...]
PhD studentships in Population studies at LSE
TweetThe Population Cluster at the London School of Economics has three 1+3/+3 ESRC quota studentships to start in Autumn 2009. Applications are invited in the following areas: Anthropological demography Demographic modelling Demography and public health Evolutionary demography Family demography and gender The Population Cluster is a thriving group of 6 academics working on population issues [...]