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Dear all,<br>
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A follow-up to Rob's email from Friday regarding studentships :<br>
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Several adverts which had expired or were about to expire on
FindaPhD.com have now been renewed, and several new advert spaces
have been set up.<br>
<br>
Those of you with adverts/spaces will shortly receive an email with
a reminder of your FindaPhD password which will allow you to set up
or update your advert. Alternatively send text for your advert to me
or Lynn who will update the advert for you. <br>
<br>
If you do not have an advert/space and would like one, please let me
or Lynn know. The department will pay for one advert per academic -
you can have more if you want but you will have to find the fee
(~£50). <br>
<br>
You can set the funding key for your project (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.admin.findaphd.com/fundingkey.asp">http://www.admin.findaphd.com/fundingkey.asp</a>) to describe what
funding is available for your project. Even if none is currently
available, then you can choose "Self-funded students only" - this
may still pick up a student bringing a scholarship from their home
country. <br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Gordon<br>
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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>
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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>
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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
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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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