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With apologies for cross posting CENTRE FOR TRANSPORT STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON Applications are invited for two PhD studentships in Transport Risk Management, funded by the Lloyd's Register Educational Trust and located in the Centre for Transport Studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The students will be supervised Professor Andrew Evans, Lloyd's Register Professor of Transport Risk Management, possibly jointly with other members of the Centre, depending on their research topic. The students are expected to work in the field of risk management in any mode of transport. Students may propose their own topic within this field or work on one of the following topics: criteria for the adoption of safety measures; analysis of accident precursors as indicators of safety risk; comparisons of safety management in railways and aviation; effectiveness of railway train protection systems; road safety, especially in relation to the safety of other modes. The studentships comprise a bursary for three years, initially at £14,000 per year, together with College fees at the home/EU rate. In the case of exceptionally well qualified and motivated candidates from outside the EU, consideration may be given to covering all or part of the full College fee. The Centre for Transport studies undertakes research across a broad range of transport related topics including safety, railway operations and management, air transport, transport and the environment, transport policy and regulation, transport operations, logistics, technology, and transport demand modelling. Further information can be found on the Centre's website at http://www.imperial.ac.uk/cts. Applicants for the studentships should have or expect to obtain a first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent, in a relevant quantitative discipline (for example, Engineering, the Physical Sciences, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Computing, Economics). A Master's degree in a relevant subject may be advantageous but is not essential. Potential applicants are invited to send a curriculum vitae to Professor Andrew Evans ([log in to unmask]; Centre for Transport Studies, Skempton Building, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ) and to submit an application form (which can be downloaded from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/pgoptions. Closing date: 12 September 2005 Valuing diversity and committed to equality of opportunity. -- Prof. John Polak Head of Centre for Transport Studies Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Imperial College London London SW7 2AZ T: +44-(0)20-7594-6089 F: +44-(0)20-7594-6102 http://www.imperial.ac.uk/transport-studies