20 PhD Studentships from SICSA, Scotland, UK

Applying for a SICSA Prize Studentship

The Scottish Graduate Academy offers prize studentships to excellent candidates
from across the world. There is no residence qualification and candidates from
any country may apply.

We are now accepting applications for the Prize Studentship. The deadline for
this round is 2nd May 2011.

To make an application for a SICSA Prize Studentship, you must:

- Apply online via the SICSA Applications System before the stated deadline,
and;
- Apply directly to your first-choice institution as soon as possible.

Further information about making an application

How to write a SICSA research proposal.

FAQs about SICSA studentship applications

Once you have applied

Selection of candidates is by a competitive process where we look at the
student's academic achievements, referees reports, research proposal,
publications and experience. The research proposal is particularly important as
this helps us judge how well a candidate has thought about their research, how
well the research fits with the SICSA themes and the potential cross-site
supervisory arrangements.

Your studentship application will be considered by the universities that you
have listed in your application. They will decide, on the basis of the
information in your application, if they wish to nominate you for a SICSA
studentship. If they do so, your application will be considered by the Graduate
Academy Board.

Your first choice university may decide not to nominate your application for a
studentship. In this case, your details will be passed to any other universities
that you have included in your application and they may decide to support your
application. Applications from students who are not nominated by one of the
SICSA partners will not be considered for a prize studentship.

Information about SICSA Theme Areas

We are willing to consider applicants in any area of computer science and
informatics but may give preference to students who are working in SICSA theme
areas:

- Next-generation Internet

- Multi-modal interaction

- Modelling and abstraction

- Complex systems engineering

Some universities would like to recruit students for specific projects and
information about these projects is available here. However, your application
does not have to be related to any of these projects and you may make a research
proposal in any area of work.

http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/graduate-academy/prize-studentships/applying-for-a-sicsa-\
prize-studentship