Current Student Opportunities

Joint PhD agreement

U21 now has a Joint PhD programme, enabling PhD students to carry out their research at two U21 institutions, if accepted onto the programme. 

Each PhD is tailored to the individual student, so interested participants should speak with their university's Dean or Director of Graduate Studies.

Currently fourteen U21 universities are participating in the programme: Auckland, Birmingham, British Columbia, Delhi, Dublin (University College), Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Korea, McGill, Melbourne, Nottingham, Queensland and Virginia.

General information about this can be found by clicking here and a list of U21 Deans & Directors of  Graduate Studies can be found on the DDoGS website by clicking here.

Water Research opportunity

BPD Water and Sanitation www.bpdws.org (London) and the International Development Research Centre www.idrc.ca (Canada) have developed a 3-year programme of action research, exploring the impact of varied institutional relationships on local natural resource management and the integrated management of water and sanitation in low-income urban and peri-urban areas of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). They plan to undertake 6 action research case studies and local stakeholder workshops; drawn from a broad geographic range across the LAC region. The case studies will range from those utilising new and/or innovative approaches to integrated service delivery and environmental management through to those using effective community organisation mechanisms (e.g. local urban management models such as water user groups).   The case studies will generate a better understanding of specific aspects of how water and sanitation services are delivered to marginalised communities at the local level.

The 6 case studies will each have 2 researchers allocated to them - a team of 12 in total. BPD would ideally like to pair a more senior, experienced researcher with a more junior (paid) researcher or Masters / PhD student that may be looking for practical case studies to study.

Click here for further information.

Kelvin Smith Scholarships at University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow has a long and continuing tradition of investing in world-leading innovation and research. The secrets of our success have been in

• creating and promoting an excellent research environment in which to work and study;
• providing cutting-edge facilities and equipment; and
• ensuring that our research output is of the highest quality

Key to this success has been our commitment to investing in people with outstanding research capability and potential.

The prestigious Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Scholarship scheme was established in 2007 to create new partnerships between members of staff and will offer outstanding research students both from home and abroad the opportunity to participate in new research collaborations at the University of Glasgow involving the development of exciting cross-discipline research ideas.

Please see the website below for information on projects currently open to applications: http://www.gla.ac.uk/research/kelvinsmithfellowshipsscholarships/openscholarshipprojects/

For further information please email pgr@enterprise.gla.ac.uk

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