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EEECS Doctoral Fellowship

TWO EPSRC DOCTORAL PRIZE FELLOWSHIPs

As part of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s (EPSRC) Doctoral Prize initiative Queen’s University Belfast is funding two research fellowships within the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS). Each fellowship is available for up to 18-months.

The Doctoral Prize is intended to develop the very best EPSRC supported students beyond the end of their PhD and support their transition to independent researchers. All EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellows are expected to engage in outreach work as part of their fellowship.

Applicants are invited to propose a novel research project, within EPSRC’s academic remit: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/apprev/basics/Pages/remit.aspx, in any of the following areas: Secure Digital Systems; High Performance and Distributed Computing; Knowledge and Data Engineering; Speech Image and Vision Systems; Digital Communications; High Frequency Electronics; Energy, Power and Intelligent Control. Details of the EEECS research focus in each of these areas can be found at http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/eeecs/Research/.

Before making an application applicants should first contact an academic member of staff (who must NOT be their PhD supervisor) within the School of EEECS to discuss their research proposal. The member of staff must be willing to support the project and agree to act as their mentor throughout.  Applicants who have not carried out PhD study at the Queen’s University of Belfast are particularly encouraged to apply.

The full application should be returned by email to s.hurson@qub.ac.uk  by no later than midnight on Thursday 31 October 2013. Please note that applications will not be accepted after this date and that the word counts and page limits listed in the application form are not flexible.  Applications must include the following completed documents:

Application Form

PhD Supervisor Reference

Project Mentor Letter of Support countersigned by Research Cluster’s Director of Research

A brief CV (1 page maximum in Arial font size 11 or equivalent)

 

Eligibility Criteria

The following criteria must be met:

 

  1. You should have submitted, be expecting to submit, or have been awarded your PhD between 1 October 2012 and 30 September 2013. You may commence your Fellowship while awaiting your viva, but the Fellowship may be withdrawn if you are not awarded a PhD, or are required to carry out substantial corrections to your thesis.
  2. You should have been in receipt of EPSRC funding during your PhD (fees and/or maintenance) at Queen’s University Belfast or another UK institution.
  3. You should be able to demonstrate a clear desire to follow an academic research career.
  4. Your proposed project should have a different direction than your PhD project, and normally you would have a project mentor different from your PhD supervisor. It is your responsibility to get agreement from a project mentor.
  5. You should not already hold or have been offered a permanent academic position.
  6. Your proposed project must be within EPSRC’s academic remit: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/apprev/basics/Pages/remit.aspx

You must be able to start your project as soon as possible. The start date must be agreed in advance with your project mentor and Director of Research.