OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS

Poster Bursaries for PhD Students at DSA Annual Conference 2007

Details of these awards will be posted shortly.

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES

THE LEVERHULME TRUST PROGRAMME AWARD 2007

GENDERED CEREMONY AND RITUALS IN PARLIAMENT: DISCIPLINING REPRESENTATION

As part of this programme applications are invited for 3 PhD studentships available on a 1+3 or +3 basis commencing in September 2007.  

This doctoral research will form part of a programme of work funded by the Leverhulme Trust that includes research undertaken by the programme’s co-investigators Prof Shirin Rai, Prof Joni Lovenduski, Dr Sarah Childs and Dr Georgina Waylen and post doctoral fellows based at Sheffield, Birkbeck and Warwick.  The studentships will be based at the Universities of Bristol, Sheffield and Warwick.  

The programme seeks to encourage work which, freed from conventional disciplinary constraints, can afford a wider recognition of the place of ceremony and ritual within the human condition.  It will analyse the ways in which ceremony and rituals are racialized and gendered in three political institutions: the British, South African and Indian Parliaments.   

It is envisaged that each of the PhD studentships will focus on one parliament and address a range of questions.  For example these might include: what are the formal and informal rules and norms of that Parliament? How are they expressed and transmitted?  How do parliamentary rituals and ceremonies discipline MPs?  What are the dominant forms of the public behaviour of elected representatives in that parliament? To what extent are these racialised and sexualized?

The successful candidates will be part of a research team. Each research team will be consist of the co-applicants leading research in particular research sites, the PhD student and a Post-doctoral researcher. The research teams will meet every six months for co-ordination meetings. One of these will be at the annual workshop. The teams will also keep in touch through email and the website. The successful candidate will be expected to play full part in the organisation and work of the teams and the workshops.  

Applications are welcomed from well qualified candidates with a good honours degree or equivalent for a 1 + 3 studentship; and a recognised research training MA or equivalent for a + 3 studentship. 

Studentship 1 ‘Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in the British Parliament’, based in the Department of Politics, University of Bristol, lead supervisor Dr Sarah Childs  

Studentship 2 ‘Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in the South African Parliament’, based in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, lead supervisor Dr Georgina Waylen

Studentship 3 ‘Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in the Indian Parliament’, based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, lead supervisor Prof Shirin Rai

Please address your enquiries and applications to the department where you would like to be based in the first instance. We welcome informal enquiries.  Please contact either Sarah Childs, Shirin Rai or Georgina Waylen (for their contact details see below)   

Closing date for applications: 07 August 2007

For application forms and further details please contact:

For University of Bristol:

Postgraduate Admissions, Department of Politics, University of Bristol, 10 Priory Rd, Bristol BS8 ITU, poligrad-admiss@bristol.ac.uk or Dr. Sarah Childs (s.childs@bris.ac.uk)

For University of Sheffield

Mrs Sarah Cooke (s.cooke@sheffield.ac.uk) or Dr.Georgina Waylen (g.waylen@sheffield.ac.uk), Dept of Politics, Elmfield, Northumberland Rd, Sheffield S10 2TY, tel 0114 222 1640. 

For the University of Warwick:

Ms. Geraldine Raison (g.raison@warwick.ac.uk) or Prof. Shirin Rai (shirin.rai@warwick.ac.uk) Department of Politics and International Studies, University Of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL

Studentships from IDD, University of Birmingham. PhD studentship in the International Development Department, University of Birmingham, starting October 2007. IDD invites applications for one ESRC +3 quota award, to work on corruption, decentralisation, governance reform, public management, religions and development or urban politics. www.idd.bham.ac.uk

Commonwealth Shared Scholarships 2007 - IDPM
The Institute for Development Policy & Management, University of Manchester is pleased to announce that it will be offering 2 Commonwealth Shared Scholarship Scheme awards for Postgraduate Taught Programmes commencing in September 2007.
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/dfid07.htm

PhD Studentships linked to ESRC STEPS Centre
The Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre, funded by the ESRC, is a major new interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement hub bringing together development and science and technology studies.
Three PhD studentships linked to the Centre are available to start in October 2007. Applicants should be EU citizens, resident in the UK for three years, with a Masters degree or equivalent. Payment of fees, a living allowance and fieldwork expenses included. Closing date: 31 May 2007.
For details on how to apply, visit the STEPS Centre website at: www.steps-centre.org

Friends of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Student Bursaries
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is delighted to announce two new full-fee paying bursaries for master’s degree study. These bursaries have been generously donated by the Friends of the Institute.

The Friends Bursaries will pay full tuition fees for one Home/EU student and one Overseas student. Eligible students may be enrolled for either of our two master’s courses for full-time or part-time study. Awards will be made to candidates who have an outstanding academic record and/or whose track record of practical work in the fields of human rights or development will enable them to both contribute to and gain substantial benefit from the course.
Applicants must have been accepted on the course by Thursday 31st May to be considered for the awards.

The Institute offers two master’s degrees:
MA Understanding & Securing Human Rights
MSc Globalization & Development
Further details are available from our website at http://www.commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/degrees.htm

School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Leeds
In addition to ESRC recognition for training and competition awards, the School has its own scholarships budget which at present includes:
For UK/EU students:
one full three-year PhD studentship (full fees + £7000 + paid teaching or research assistance); one full three year PhD fee waiver (fees only); two full one-year MA fee waivers (fees only).
For International students:
one full three-year PhD fee waiver (fees only); one partial MA fee waiver (£3000).
Small amounts may also be awarded as partial fee waivers to excellent candidates who have arranged funds from other sources but who still have a small shortfall. This part of the budget is managed on a case-by-case basis; in previous years we were able to help several outstanding students to enrol in the School.

Please note that POLIS funding is allocated on the basis of academic merit.
For further information, see the web site at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/polis/, or e-mail polispg@leeds.ac.uk

A prize of £500 will be awarded for the best paper published in The European Journal of Development Research
We wish to invite submissions on the subject ‘The Impact of India and China’s growth on the Developing World – good, bad or otherwise?’ Papers may take either an economic stance or look at the question from a political angle. The paper can be regional-specific or more generalist.
Submissions should be no more than 9,000 words. Papers must follow EJDR stylistic guidelines which can be found at the T&F website (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09578811.asp). Submissions are equally acceptable either in English, French or Spanish. Papers should be sent to the journal secretary, Susanne von Itter itter@eadi.org, being marked clearly “EJDR Prize”. Deadline for submissions is 1st June 2007.

Student Conference: Development as Justice, 23rd of June, 2007
We would like to invite you to submit papers for the University of Oxford Students for Development conference. The aim of the conference is to bring together students from the United Kingdom and beyond to stimulate fresh and novel thinking in the field of development. The theme of the conference is: ‘Development as Justice’. Such a broad theme has been deliberately chosen to allow authors to explore a wide range of developmental fields and sub-fields, including, for example, environment, gender, conflict studies and international relations.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15/4/07 Please contact Saoirse Debont on saoirse.debont@linacre.ox.ac.uk

Student Forum
EADI are keen to foster greater networking, information exchange and collaboration between international students and young researchers in the field of development, and to also enhance interaction and cross-fertilization between early career students and older more established researchers and practitioners.

After consultation with EADI student members and also some independent networks, a series of possible projects and activities could be realised in the future. However, the very first step needs to be to gather a “critical mass” of interested students and young researchers. They have created a special web site on our EADI homepage devoted to this network of students and young researchers in the field of development (NetSYD) where they have gathered some basic information, the links to student networks in Europe (still work in progress and if you have any suggestions, please contact EADI) and also to some events. (http://www.eadi.org/detail_page.phtml?page=dossier_students)

If you have any suggestions, please contact Fritz Scheidhauer scheidhauer@eadi.orgor visit EADI’s website www.eadi.org

age last updated: 19 March, 2007