[Students-l] Fwd.: [Air-L] PhD studentships in Usability and Internationalisation at Thames Valley University

[M.J. Menou]

> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:39:19 +0100
> From: "Jose Abdelnour-Nocera" <Jose.Abdelnour-Nocera at tvu.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Air-L] PhD studentships in Usability and
> 	Internationalisation
> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> 
> 
> The Centre for Internationalisation and Usability? at Thames Valley
> University (TVU) is pleased to announce The Vice-Chancellor's full-time
> research
> Studentships. 
> 
> TVU is among just three London universities to climb 17 places or more
> in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008. To celebrate TVU's
> performance in the RAE2008 and strengthen our research student base, the
> Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter John is pleased to announce up to
> fifteen full-time research scholarships throughout the university. A
> proportion of these will be in the field of usability and
> internationalisation. 
> 
> Rooted in the discipline of human-computer interaction (HCI) the Centre
> for Internationalisation and Usability supports software developers in
> building systems that meet all the needs of end users. There are two
> challenges underpinning our work. Computer science and interdisciplinary
> challenges that need to be solved to provide tools, techniques and
> methods that can be used by software developers internationally to build
> usable systems. Two separate strands have been identified in HCI for
> global commercial software development and HCI for international
> economic and social development.
> http://www.tvu.ac.uk/computing/research/comp_ciu.jsp  
> 
> Possible topic areas for the studentships include:
>
> - Cross-cultural HCI
> - Internationalisation of products and systems
> - Interaction Design for Social/International Development
> - Sociotechnical Interaction-Design
> - Usability and healthcare
> - Empirical Studies of Software Development
> - Agile Methods and User Centred Design
>
> Informal enquiries about our research can be directed to Dr. Jos?
> Abdelnour Nocera, jose.abdelnour-nocera at tvu.ac.uk 
> 
> Applications are invited from suitably qualified students to commence
> study in September 2009. You should hold or expect to be awarded a 2 (i)
> Hons degree or above. A Master's degree in an appropriate subject? area
> is desirable. Those candidates whose first language is not English must
> demonstrate evidence of appropriate English language proficiency,
> normally defined as a minimum IELTS score of 7. In addition to their PhD
> studies, duties will include up to 6 hours per week (during term time)
> assisting with teaching on appropriate modules. 
> 

> Informal academic enquiries may be directed to Professor Sibel Roller,
> Head of Graduate School, sibel.roller at tvu.ac.uk.
>
> To apply, send your full Curriculum Vitae and a covering letter
> indicating your area of interest and including a supporting statement
> of no more than 500 words describing your reasons for wishing to
> undertake a research degree to Maria Pennells, Graduate School,
> Thames Valley University, St Mary's Road, London W5 5RF
> (researchdegrees at tvu.ac.uk). If applicable, evidence of English language
> proficiency should also be included.
> Closing date for receipt of applications: Friday 12 June 2009.
>
> If short-listed for one of these awards, you should be prepared to
> attend an interview at TVU in London in June/July 2009.

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