Doctoral Studentships 2010, University of Manchester

The University of Manchester - Manchester Business School

Closing Date: 25 February 2010

The projects

We are seeking applicants with outstanding academic performance in both their undergraduate and Masters degrees who wish to pursue PhD studies in any area of research expertise within the School:

• Accounting
• Decision Sciences
• Finance
• Financial and Digital Innovation
• Healthcare and Public Sector Management
• Human Resource Management
• Employment Relations & Law
• i-Gov
• International Business
• Information Systems and Interactive Systems
• Marketing
• Organisation Studies
• Organisational Psychology
• Project Management
• Services Systems Design
• Technology & Entrepreneurship
• Management & Policy

These studentships are for candidates commencing full-time doctoral programme in Manchester Business School in September 2010. The awards offer up to four years funding, including tuition fees and approx £13,000 annual stipend. These are open to UK, EU and international students.

The posts consist of teaching and/or research duties. The post holders will benefit from career development in all aspects of academic work including attendance at development sessions for junior faculty, mentoring and training, working closely with supervisors and research groups to develop publication opportunities and involvement in other School research activities.

Enquiries
Anusarin Lowe
Phone: +44 (0) 161 275 0784
Email: anusarin.lowe@mbs.ac.uk
More information: www.mbs.ac.uk/postgraduateresearch

Applications:

1. Complete an application for the doctoral programme. We must receive all the following before an application for funding can be considered: an application form, previous degree certificates and transcripts, references, TOEFL/IELTS test result (if applicable) and a 3,000-word research proposal. Please see www.mbs.ac.uk/postgraduateresearch/make-application.aspx for the application process.
2. Send a covering email to Anusarin Lowe
   

The closing date for receipt of complete applications is 25 February 2010.

Provisional arrangements for the interview

• Interviews will form part of the selection process and are to be held on 19 and 20 April 2010 via web conference
• Candidates are expected to give 15-minute PowerPoint presentation, followed by a question session

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PhD Studentship in Microelectronics and Nanostructures, University of Manchester

PhD Studentship: Integrated Circuit Design for Advanced 3D Silicon Technologies

Microelectronics and Nanostructures Research Group
The University of Manchester - School of Electrical Engineering and Electronics

Closing date : 25 January 2010
Start date   : April 2010

The project

This three-year PhD studentship is associated with an EPSRC-funded project on 'Fine-Grain Parallel Cellular Processor Arrays in 3D Silicon technologies". The student will work with state-of-the-art IC design and test equipment, researching the circuit and system architectures of devices implemented in emerging fabrication technologies that allow stacking of multiple silicon layers in a single device. In particular, design of "vision chips" will be considered. These devices integrate thousands of sensing and processing elements in a massively parallel fine-grain array configuration and provide a high-performance, low-power consumption alternative to conventional vision systems, with a range of applications from autonomous robots to retinal prostheses. The student will investigate the partitioning of processor architecture amongst multiple silicon layers and research circuit/layout design issues. A number of devices will be fabricated and tested during the project, using the latest 3D integration technologies based of Silicon on Insulator (SOI) and bulk CMOS wafers. The project involves international collaboration with partners in Finland and USA.

Candidates should have a degree in Electronics, Computer Engineering, or similar. Background knowledge of digital and analogue circuits and interest in hardware design is required. Some experience in VLSI design would be an advantage.

The project will be carried out in the Microelectronics Design Lab, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, The University of Manchester. The lab has recently moved to new accommodation, and is well equipped, with industry-standard EDA design tools and IC test equipment. The activities of the lab include adventurous research on novel computer architectures, cellular processor arrays, analogue and mixed-mode circuit design and brain-inspired VLSI systems. More information, including relevant publications, can be found on the lab research web page: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/p.dudek/

Funding

Successful UK/EU applicants will receive full funding for tuition fees and a stipend in the region of £13,000 per year, tax free. Non-UK/EU candidates will receive full funding for tuition fees, however, only a stipend of about £2,500 per year can be offered to such candidates. Please note that overseas students need to demonstrate maintenance funds in the region of £9,000 per year in order satisfy visa requirements, so they will need to obtain additional funding from other sources.

Enquiries

Enquiries should be directed to Dr. Piotr Dudek, School of EEE.
Closing date for applications is 25 January 2010. The three year PhD project will start in April 2010.

Applications

If you wish to apply please email a covering letter, full Curriculum Vitae and the names and contact details of at least two academic references to Ms Marie B Davies

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PhD Studentship, University of Manchester

Peripheral inflammation and cerebral ischaemia
The University of Manchester - Faculty of Life Sciences

Closing date: 3 February 2010
Start date : September/October 2010

Enquiries and applications: Further information about this project and the Faculty of Life Sciences can be found at www.manchester.ac.uk/lifesciences/postgraduate/

Full details of how to apply can be found at www.manchester.ac.uk/lifesciences/postgraduate/apply/

For enquiries please contact:

Email      : pgresearch.lifesciences@manchester.ac.uk
Telephone  : 0161 275 5608
Supervisor : Dr Stuart Allan

The project:

The brain is critically dependent on an adequate blood supply to maintain normal function. Disruption of blood supply by blockage (stroke) or bleeding (subarachnoid (SAH) or intracerebral haemorrhage) results in cerebral ischaemia (CI), and can have devastating clinical consequences. CI is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide and despite intensive research effort there are no widely effective treatments. A number of reasons have been proposed for the lack of success in finding successful treatments for CI, including the relevance of the animal models used to date. Research on CI has focussed largely on events within the brain. However, increasing evidence implicates peripheral processes, particularly inflammation, in the aetiology and outcome of CI. Therefore, the failure to address this key aspect of CI pathology may be one reason for the lack of new treatments for stroke and SAH. Refocusing on the primary causes of CI disease may therefore yield more success.

Our recent research demonstrates a rapid change in peripheral inflammatory responses after experimental stroke. Furthermore, a peripheral inflammatory stimulus prior to experimental stroke worsens outcome, which mirrors clinical findings. The overall aim of this project therefore is to further investigate the contribution of peripheral inflammation to CI. More specifically this project will establish whether the brain endothelium and parenchyma in animals with a raised peripheral inflammatory profile is in a 'primed' state, which makes it more susceptible to increased injury in response to experimental stroke and/or SAH.

To achieve the above aim relevant experimental models of stroke and SAH will be used along with immunohistochemical, multiplex and modern bioimaging techniques.

The studentship: This studentship is available to UK and other EU nationals (due to funding criteria) and provides fees and stipend subject to eligibility. Applicants should hold (or be about to obtain) a first or upper second class honours degree in a related area.

Applications are encouraged from students with a relevant biological sciences background.

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