International Scholarships

The Environmental Policy Group is an internationally leading and dynamic centre of expertise in the environmental social sciences. Theoretical and empirical research and undergraduate and post-graduate education are focused on the following themes: sustainable production and consumption; (inter)national environmental policies and politics; nature and natural resource governance. We cooperate in research and education with other … [More Info]

Applications are invited for several post-graduate research positions (details here ) in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Research Group (KDEG), Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. KDEG enjoys a world class reputation in Intelligent Systems and knowledge driven information systems. Successful candidates will have a first class honours degree in computer science or related … [More Info]

PhD position (RUG): The objectives of project 1 are to assess the functional and structural prokaryote diversity of soil under potato (baseline) and to establish sensitive bacterial and archaeal bioindicators on the basis of molecular tools. Prokarya interacting with local fungi will also be studied. The effects of the presence of transgenes in potato will … [More Info]

The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, is seeking a graduate student at the PhD level in urban climatology/micrometeorology. The position is part of a collaborative research network on ‘Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities’ (EPiCC) funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS). The successful PhD candidate will receive three years of … [More Info]

A postdoctoral position is available for up to four years in the Air Pollution/Climate Research Group of the Swiss Federal Research Station Agroscope Reckenholz-Taenikon (ART) in Zurich led by Prof. J. Fuhrer. The position is part of an ongoing project funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Environment. The aim is to investigate the interactive … [More Info]

Applications are invited from first or upper second Honours graduates in biological, ecological, environmental, soil science or other appropriate disciplines for two postgraduate research studentships in soil biology research in Ireland, commencing in September 2006. Both studentships are initially funded for two years (MSc), but may be extended by a third year (PhD). The studentships … [More Info]

The Singapore Ministry of Education has established a four-year fellowship scheme for new doctoral students at NTU or NUS who will conduct their research at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre (SMART Centre). The establishment of this Fellowship Programme is intended to attract to NTU and NUS the best and most talented doctoral … [More Info]