[alife] Fully Funded PhD Studentships at Keele University

[Alastair Channon]

Dear ALife Community,

Keele University is inviting applications for fully-funded PhD 
studentships for UK/EU students, to be undertaken from September/October 
2016.  The closing date for applications is Friday 15 April 2016.  Each 
fully-funded studentship includes an annual tax-free stipend at RCUK 
rate (currently £14,296) plus tuition fees and each studentship has an 
associated research expense budget (£2,000-£3,000 per year).  Keele 
University was founded in 1949 and is situated in a very beautiful and 
spacious campus in the middle of England, in the county of Staffordshire.

We welcome candidates with a good fit to our research specialisms, which 
in Computer Science include: computational modelling of evolutionary 
systems; computational neuroscience; evolving intelligent virtual 
creatures; computational intelligence for biomedical and engineering 
problems; visualisation and data analytics in e-health; machine learning 
analysis of consumer behaviour; cloud computing services and security; 
user experience design for e-learning; evidence based methods for 
designing and creating complex software.  For further details please visit:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/scm/research/compsci/

Candidates are expected to have a 1st class or 2.1 class undergraduate 
degree or a Distinction level MSc degree in a relevant subject (or 
equivalent in the case of candidates from other EU countries).  For the 
purpose of research proposal applicants should submit an outline of 
their research interests or of a particular research project that the 
applicant would like to work on (max. 2 pages).  Apply online:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/researchsubjects/computerscience/
Reference number: FNSGS 2016-07
Full advert and details:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/pgresearch/studentships/fnsgs%202016-07.docx

Please send any questions by email to Lisa Cartlidge 
(l.j.cartlidge at keele.ac.uk) or Ann Billington (a.billington at keele.ac.uk).

Best wishes,
Alastair.

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Dr Alastair Channon (a.d.channon at keele.ac.uk)
Reader
Evolutionary Systems Research Theme Lead
Computer Science Research Centre Lead
School of Computing and Mathematics
Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
http://www.scm.keele.ac.uk/staff/a_channon/