[Air-l] Chimera PhD Programme October 2007 intake

[Ben Anderson]

Dear Colleagues

I am pleased to announce that Chimera, the Institute for Social and
Technical Research at the University of Essex is now accepting applications
for places on its 2007 PhD programme (October intake).

We are open to applications from prospective students who wish to study the
interactions between technologies and society in a lively post-disciplinary
research environment. Candidates must exhibit the potential to excel in
incisive and innovative thinking which can help to understand the social and
technical dynamics of societal change and/or develop and test new societal
tools and applications. Our research activities and students are clustered
into two groups but cross-group projects and student research programmes are
actively encouraged. It is our practice at Chimera to enable research
students to undertake 1-2 days per week paid research work on projects
relevant to their PhD if they and their supervisors agree and if the funds
are available. This provides invaluable project collaborative research
experience and often involves working closely with industrial or public
sponsors.

For further information please see:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/phd.html

or:

http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/2006-Phd-Programme.pdf

Please feel free to cross-post to appropriate fora and I would be very
grateful if this announcement could be brought to the attention of suitable
Masters level students.

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Dr Ben Anderson
Deputy Director, Chimera
the University of Essex's Institute for Social and Technical Research
+44 (0) 7710 187 806
Homepage: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/team/bena.html
Chimera blog: http://istr.wordpress.com/