UK: 22 PhD positions in multiple research areas

Deadline: 28 Feb. 2013

22 Full PhD Studentships (4 Years Funding) Available for September 2013 Start

There will be 2 rounds of interviews each with an application deadline as follows

1st Round Deadline: 28th Feburary 2013
2nd Round Deadline: 26th April 2013
To apply, please send your CV, personal statement including research interests,copies of degrees, transcripts and English test results (if any) to PhDAdmissions@nottingham.edu.cn with "IDIC" in the subject line or post them to Peter CHEN, Recruitment & Admissions Office, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 199 East Taikang Road, Ningbo 315100, China or call +86 (0) 574 8818 1063 for more information.

The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) , a pioneer in Sino-foreign tertiary education and part of the University of Nottingham, UK (UNUK), offers unique teaching and research opportunities in a highly dynamic and rapidly growing economy.

The International Doctoral Innovation Centre (IDIC) established in UNNC in 2011 is a venture represents an initial 170 million RMB (£17 million) investment by Ningbo Education Bureau, Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau, UNUK, UNNC and China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). The IDIC’s Digital Economy Research programme is closely associated with UNUK’s School of Computer Science and Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute , and engages in multidisciplinary research with research groups across the university including Computer Science, Engineering, Business and Psychology. We are dedicated to researching, promoting and championing new ubiquitous digital technologies and solutions addressing challenges in interactive media, smart city, healthcare informatics, transport, logistics, energy, and environment.

Technological areas of interest include Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Multimedia Processing, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Mobile, Ubiquitous and Location-Aware Computing, Cloud Computing, Optimization and Operations Research, Computational Finance and Business Information Systems.

We are now recruiting up to 22 young talents on to a unique 4-year PhD programme to develop a new generation of multidisciplinary researchers to become future technological experts and business leaders in the Digital Economy. Students will be based in the Horizon Doctoral Training Centre located in the School of Computer Science, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham in the UK during the first year then move to The University of Nottingham Ningbo China at the end of the first year and stay there for 3 years where they will graduate. Each student will be supervised by a team of experts from both UNUK and UNNC.

We are interested in ambitious and talented students from a wide variety of backgrounds including computer science, engineering, mathematics, natural sciences and human factors and we equally welcome applications from outstanding students with a background in psychology, business, economics, geography, social science and the arts to join our exciting multidisciplinary research programmes to tackle technological and societal challenges and to create new technologies for the Digital Economy.

To join us, you must have an excellent first degree and preferably a Masters qualification or equivalent, you must be able to demonstrate the capability and show the potential of conducting world-class interdisciplinary research. You must also have achieved a minimum English language qualification IELTS of 6.5 with no less than 6.0 in any element or TOEFL iBT 88 (no less than 19 in any element).