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PhD Opportunities in Statistics: Lancaster University. The statistics group at Lancaster University is one of the leading groups in the UK, and was awarded the highest grade (6*) at the most recent Reasearch Assessment Exercise. The group has a large number of PhD studentships available for 2008/09; including at least one open to non-UK students. The research interests of the group are broad, and include: Bayesian and computational statistics, extreme values, statistical genetics and bioinformatics, medical statistics and epidemiology, spatial statistics, wavelets and time series, applied probability, operations research, and social statistics. Applications for PhDs in any of these or related areas are encouraged. For details of why to do a PhD at Lancaster, see: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/department/opportunities/PhD/statsPhd/4reasons DETAILS OF STUDENTSHIPS: (a) We have a number of EPSRC studentships each year. These are for a duration of three and half years. The studentships come with an enhanced stipend of £2,000 above the usual research council stipend. (For students starting in October 07 their initial stipend was £14,600 per annum). (b) We have been allocated FOUR ESRC studentships for PhDs in Social Statistics. These are aimed at students with a social science background who wish to learn and apply modern statistical methods; or for students who have a mathematical background, and want to do statistical research with applications in the social sciences. The studentships come with an enhanced stipend of £3,000 above the usual research council stipend. The duration of studentship could be either four years or three years depending on whether the student needs to have one year of Masters training before starting a PhD. The deadline is end of March, 2008. For more details see http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/department/opportunities/PhD/ESRCstudentships (c) The Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) Postgraduate Studentships are three year studentships which cover fees (at Home/EU rate) and pay a living allowance. The deadline is end of March 2008. For details see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/news/?article_id=326 Full EPSRC and ESRC studentships are only available to students who fulfil the Research Council's UK residency conditions. The FST postgraduate studentships are open to ALL students. APPLICATIONS: See the following website for details of application procedure. http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/department/opportunities/PhD For more information contact Dr. Kanchan Mukherjee ([log in to unmask]).