MEMO
To: All Staff @ Birkbeck, Institute of
Education, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Royal Veterinary
College, School of Pharmacy, School of Oriental & African
Studies.
From: The Bloomsbury
Colleges Research Committee
Date: 1 September
2011
Re: Bloomsbury Colleges PhD Studentships for
2012
The Bloomsbury
Colleges Consortium has six member institutions from the University of London:
Birkbeck, Institute of Education, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, Royal Veterinary College, School of Oriental and African Studies and
The School of Pharmacy. Together they are identifying and pursuing opportunities
for academic and administrative collaboration.
Twelve 3-year PhD
studentships are available for intercollegiate research collaborations to start
October 2012. These studentships entail collaboration between at least two
Bloomsbury Colleges, and each participating College will be the lead (i.e.,
principal supervisor and registration base for the students) for two such
collaborations. For all colleges, the studentships will cover fees at the
home/EU rate and maintenance at the level recommended by the Research Councils.
Applicants from non-EU countries will be required to meet the additional costs
of overseas fees from other sources. All studentships will be managed in line
with the current good practices of all member Colleges.
This formal call for
proposals from academic staff within the Bloomsbury Colleges has a deadline for
submission of 17th October 2011. Each School/College will screen proposals
where the lead applicant is based in that institution, and select a maximum of 5
applications for forwarding to the Bloomsbury Colleges Research Committee for
consideration at a meeting scheduled for 11th November (i.e., the Committee will
receive a maximum of 30 applications). The Committee will select 12
applications, and successful applicants will be notified by 18th November at the
latest. The studentships will be advertised on The Bloomsbury Colleges website
before the Christmas break 2011 and placed in a selection of high profile
journals in January 2012, with interviews and the selection process taking place
during February to March 2012. The
students will start their courses in October 2012.
Although a number of
criteria* will be used in the selection process, it is important to note that
applicants must convince the Committee that the studentship will foster new and
sustainable research collaboration between the partner
colleges.
The timetable for
this process is summarized in the accompanying page. Please contact tbc@bloomsbury.ac.uk with any
enquiries.
Applications should
be submitted by the lead applicant to the corresponding receiver in their
institution:
Berni Widemann
berni.widemann@pharmacy.ac.uk
Dean of Studies Office
dean_of_studies_office@lshtm.ac.uk
Kathryn Oatey
ko12@soas.ac.uk
Liz Wilkinson
lwilkinson@rvc.ac.uk
Trevor Pearce
t.pearce@bbk.ac.uk
Kate Gerrard
k.gerrard@ioe.ac.uk
Professor David
Thurston
Chair, Bloomsbury
Colleges Research Committee
* Criteria
for selection process are as follows:
1. Strengthens new/blossoming Bloomsbury College
collaboration
2. Broadens
range of existing studentship collaborations (eg in terms of college
partnerships, subjects covered)
3. Academic
merit of the proposal, including realistic scope of the project for a 3 year
PhD
4. Security
of funding to undertake the project (eg for data collection and consumables) -
to avoid risk of delay or non-completion of project because of funding
shortfall
5. Strong
track record and evidence of supervision capacity of lead
supervisor
6. Evidence
of awareness of college supervision requirements and procedures (eg advisory
panel, timing of upgrade).
7. View for
International Development
