We are pleased to announce 7 fully funded LINCS PhD Scholarships for September 2020 entry.

Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) at Queen’s University Belfast has been established to support pioneering research at the interface between the social sciences and electronic engineering & computer science.

LINCS brings together The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) to develop a distinctive cohort of doctoral students working across the boundaries of their disciplines who will open up new avenues of enquiry centred initially on the priority themes and specific PhD projects.

The Scholarship includes:

• Full-time postgraduate research tuition fees at Standard UK Rates (not yet set for 2020/21). These will be set in early 2020. The standard tuition fee for 2019/20 was £4,327 for one year of study

• A maintenance award at the Research Councils UK national rate

• Research Training and Expenses £1,000 per annum for three years

Project priority themes are:

• Cybersecurity: Technology and Ethics
• Cyberspace, Privacy and Data Protection
• Debordering and Rebordering in Cyberspace: Technological, Legal and Political Aspects
• Borders, Security Technologies, Data Gathering and Data Sharing

Full details on projects and how to apply can be found here.