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Dear All,<br>
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Hopefully all of you are working to try and generate projects,
funding and candidates for PhD studentships. We are aiming to
increase our intake this year (with a target for Physics+IoP of 35).
We achieved 30+ on a couple of occasions a few years ago but the
intake for AY2013/14 is likely to stay in the mid-20s.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, as many of you know, the funding landscape for PhD
studentships is becoming more difficult. In that vein I regret that
we won't be running the tranche studentship competition as in recent
years, as our 5 or 6 tranche 1&2 studentships are all committed.
The number we received has reduced due to the Department's EPSRC
grant portfolio relative to others but we are also victims of our
own success in that we have recruited strongly in recent years and I
see it as essential to support the new appointments with a PhD
studentship. As these new appointments, together with existing
staff, win new grants from EPSRC our allocation of DTG funds should
increase. <br>
<br>
It is very important that as many of us as possible bring in
additional sources of PhD funding. If you are able to raise a
significant (>0.5, maybe more!) fraction of a studentship we will
do our very best to use Dept. funding alongside group and Faculty
contributions to complete the studentship. The better news is that
we've tracked down some additional money for this and there are a
number of newer opportunities, or existing ones to flag:<br>
<br>
1. We're expecting Tranche 3 competition to run as before and have
been very successful here recently (3 awards last year) - success
requires a high quality student.<br>
2. The Fraunhofer Centre is looking to partner on studentship
projects relevant to their remit - the agreement with Fraunhofer is
attached.<br>
3. We are partners in the EngD Photonics led from Heriot-Watt: see <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.idcphotonics.hw.ac.uk/">http://www.idcphotonics.hw.ac.uk/</a><br>
4. There are two possible nascent CDTs that are being worked on, one
in Plasma Accelerators and one in combination with the International
Max Planck Partnership.<br>
5. Organisations like DSTL, ELI, NPL, etc. are indicating
possibilities for studentship funding<br>
<br>
I need to ask you all to work on whatever opportunities are relevant
to your area. Please look at the adverts you have on "findaPhD.com"
and freshen up if necessary or put one up if not already done so.
The Department will pay for one per academic. The studentship
funding doesn't have to be in place to do this but it may well
generate candidates for the T3 competition or other opportunities.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Rob<br>
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Professor Robert Martin,<br>
Head of Department,<br>
Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, John Anderson
Building, Glasgow, UK, G4 0NG<br>
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tel: 0141-548-3132 (secretary) / 3466 (direct) <br>
fax: 0141-552-2891<br>
e-mail: <a href="mailto:r.w.martin@strath.ac.uk">r.w.martin@strath.ac.uk</a><br>
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The Department is a partner in SUPA, the Scottish Universities
Physics Alliance <br>
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in Scotland, number SC015263<br>
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