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CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY AT THE DEFENCE ACADEMY OF THE UK Fully Funded PhD Studentship (CASE award) : Quantitative Modelling of Military Tactical Decision-Making (up to £17, 000 per annum) Applications are invited for a PhD studentship, fully funded by EPSRC and Dstl (Defence Science and Technical Laboratory, part of the MOD) for 3.5 years. This is available within the Engineering Systems Department of Cranfield University at the Defence College of Management and Technology (part of the UK Defence Academy) at Shrivenham on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire border. The award covers fees at the UK/EU rate plus a maintenance stipend of up to £17,000 per annum (normally tax free) for UK nationals or those who have been ‘ordinarily resident’ in the UK for the last three years. For EU nationals, this can include time spent in full-time education or employment in the UK. Those ‘ordinarily resident’ in other European Union countries for the last three years are eligible for the fees but not for the maintenance award. The project is concerned with quantitative modelling of military tactical decision-making. It will involve some experimental work and statistical model-building but there is scope for the direction to be influenced by the particular interests of the successful applicant, e.g. to explore modelling approaches associated with computational intelligence such as decision trees, Bayesian networks, decision networks, etc. The results will help military simulations to better represent human behaviour and so achieve greater realism. The successful applicant will be expected to spend at least three months working on the project at Dstl and the additional costs involved in doing so will be reimbursed. Applicants should have a good first degree or an MSc in statistics, operational research, applied mathematics, computer science or a related discipline. For more information or an informal discussion, please contact Ken McNaught ([log in to unmask]). To apply for this position, please send a CV together with a covering letter by e-mail or post to Ken McNaught, Engineering Systems Dept, Cranfield University, DCMT, Defence Academy, Shrivenham, Swindon SN6 8LA. Applications should be received by 18 January, 2008.