Hi all
In case you know people looking for funding opps for a PhD.
It might look a bit weird, but there are a few sociology and sociology type students doing it now.
Its 4 years funding (to encourage them to get up on some techy stuff but they don't have to do programming or anything if they don't want to). The cash is good, they get given a laptop, and its a snazzy working environment To ground it a bit, there are sociology students doing stuff on various 'online' issues (including on-line communities), and one is just doing their internship with the BBC.
best wishes
Tracey
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Emma
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• Ubiquitous Computing - where millions of computers are embedded in the world around us;
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• Pervasive Data – with a vast amount of data generated and captured on processes, products and people, the potential for gathering information from this data is huge but subject to the availability and development of algorithms and infrastructure able to cope with such vast amounts of often distributed data. Further, the processing of data is increasingly subject to privacy-protecting policies and other restrictions such as regional legislation, strengthening the need for tools which are not only functional but satisfy requirements such as transparency, privacy and personalisability.
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Our current industry partners include: Active Ingredient, Aerial, BBC, Blast Theory, BT, EADS Astrium, EUROCONTROL, Fhios, Guidance Monitoring, HP, HW Communications, IBM, innovITS, Leica Geosystems, Location and Timing KTN, Logica, Microsoft, Network Rail, Nokia, Nottingham Scientific, Ordnance Survey, PARC, Scott Wilson, SERCO, Sharp Labs Europe, Thales, Trinity House, TRL Technology.
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