Thank you for your email. I am away until 18th July 2009. For PhD applications please have a look at http://www.computing.open.ac.uk/research-degrees There are currently no studentships being advertised. Regards, Leonor Barroca Senior Lecturer PhD Admissions Tutor Dept. of Computing The Open University Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK Access the list, archives and filestore via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/VIRTUALWORLDS