[Asis-l] PhD Scholarships in Information Science & Knowledge Management in Singapore

[Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher (Assoc Prof)]

Eight scholarships for PhD studies are available at the Sch. of
Communication & 
Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, for August
2008 and 
January 2009 admission.

PhD students are sought in the following research areas:
- Knowledge organization: taxonomies, ontologies, human categorization
behavior
- Knowledge management
- Digital libraries: information retrieval, collaborative querying,
learning objects 
  repositories, mobile applications, Web archiving
- Natural language processing: information extraction, summarization,
sentiment 
  categorization
- User and usability studies, human computer interaction
- Information literacy, health information literacy.

The PhD students will be attached to the Division of Information Studies
research clusters:
- Digital Intelligence research cluster:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/research/digital.html
- Knowledge Management cluster:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/research/management.html
- Information Literacy cluster:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/research/infolit.html
- Knowledge Organization cluster:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/research/knowledge.html

The scholarships include tuition waiver and monthly stipend of SGD2,000 
(approx. USD1,380), which are tenable for 4 years. The stipend will
comfortably 
cover living expenses for a single person in Singapore.

Minimum requirements:
- A good Bachelor's degree at a reputable university
- Master's degree in a related area
- GRE 
- TOEFL is required only for applicants whose undergrad education is not
in English.

Application procedure:
- Application has to be submitted online at:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/GradStudies/Research%2BProgrammes/admission/
  In the online application form, select "Wee Kim Wee School of
Communication & Information"
- Deadline: Feb 28th, 2008 for Aug 2008 admission. Late applications may
be 
  considered for Jan 2009 admission.
- Application material includes a 2-3 page research proposal, that
indicates the 
  research area of interest

Background information:
- The Division of Information Studies in the School of Communication &
Information 
  was set up in 1993 to offer the only LIS professional program in
Singapore. It now 
  offers 3 MSc programs in Information Studies, Knowledge Management and

  Information Systems, with a total of about 400 graduate students.
  More information about the MSc programs:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/graduate/information_studies.html
  The Division's faculty pages are available at:
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/about/directory_is.html
- Singapore is a modern multiracial "garden city" that is safe and easy
to live in. 
  The main languages are English and Chinese.
- Nanyang Technological University is a research-intensive university
that started 
  as an engineering school but is developing into a comprehensive
university. 
  The medium of instruction is completely in English.

Queries can be directed to Dr Abdus Sattar Chaudhry at: h-dis at ntu.edu.sg


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Dr Christopher KHOO 
Division of Information Studies
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information
Nanyang Technological University
31 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637718
email: assgkhoo at ntu.edu.sg
tel: (65) 6790-4602, fax: (65) 6791-5214
web: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/assgkhoo
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