PhD/Masters Scholarships for Australian and International Students in Australia, 2017

The University of Tasmania now accepting applications for PhD/Masters Scholarships for hot topics to undertake a Masters of Law by Research or a PhD in one of the three areas of law. Australian (domestic) and International students are eligible to apply for these scholarships.

The University of Tasmania is classed within the top two percent of Universities worldwide and has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching. The University of Tasmania is one of the top 2% of universities worldwide 4tholdest university in Australia, celebrating 125 years in 2015.

Course Level: Scholarships are available to pursue Masters of Law by Research or a PhD programme.

Study Subject: Scholarships are awarded within the following topics given below:

Tracing the Impact of Legal Education in Australia: The Nexus Between Legal Scholarship and Criminal Law and Practice

Climate-Adaptive Law for Marine and Coastal Biodiversity and Resource Conservation

Fisheries Law and Governance

Restorative justice, diversion and cyber-sexual offending by young people

Science, International Law and the Global Commons: How Can we Make Scientific Rules More Effective in International Law?

Legal and Ethical Issues in Clinical Trial Governance

Putting the Trust into Land Administration via the Blockchain – Hyperbole or Hope?

The Paris Climate Agreement: Justice and Effectiveness

What Drives Lawyer Behaviour in Dispute Settlement?

Has Diversity Within the Legal Profession Changed the Character of Legal Knowledge?

Relationships with Clients in Tasmanian Legal Service Delivery

Case Management Practices in Tasmanian Civil Litigation

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Governance

Number of Scholarships: One or more scholarships for outstanding students will be awarded

Scholarship can be taken in Australia

Eligibility: The following eligibility criteria apply to these scholarships:

The scholarship is open to Australian (domestic) candidates and to International candidates.

The PhD must be undertaken on a full-time basis.

Applicants must already have been awarded a first class Honours degree or hold equivalent qualifications or relevant and substantial research experience in an appropriate sector.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate strong research and analytical skills.

Candidates from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to apply.  Knowledge and skills that will be ranked highly include:

Legal service delivery

Qualitative research methods, particularly in-depth interviewing

Nationality: Australian (domestic) candidates and International candidates are eligible to apply for these scholarships.

College Admission Requirement

Entrance Requirements: Applicants must already have been awarded a first class honours degree or hold equivalent qualifications or relevant and substantial research experience in an appropriate sector.

English language Requirements: Applicants from outside the home country will often need to meet specific English language/other language requirements in order to be able to study there.

Australia Scholarships

How to Apply: Applicants should visit the Apply Now website and complete an application via the University of Tasmania’s Online Application System. Please indicate under Scholarship Support that you would like to be considered for a particularly hot topic living allowance scholarship.

Application Form

Application Deadline: Scholarship application deadline is April 10, 2017.

2017 Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology Student Internship in Belval, Luxembourg

Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) is now accepting applications for Student internship for immersion program on financial innovative systems to study in Luxembourg. Students must have specialisation in the masters or PhD programs related to the subjects for the internships. This is an unpaid internship programme. The Institute is opening a number of internship/trainee positions in its Information Technology for Innovative Services (ITIS) Department to be part of a deeply multidisciplinary experience.

Field of Internship: Student internship for immersion program on financial innovative systems – regulatory technologies – business analytics (m/f).

Course Level: Internship

Internship Provider: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)

Internship can be taken in Belval, Luxembourg

Eligibility: Education

Current student in any of the above domains; formally enrolled in a University and to begin their last year of Masters Degree in any of the specialities related to the subjects of this call

Any students engage in the PhD program in the above domains are also welcome (but not mandatory):

Beyond Analytics, Statistical methods, Machine Learning, and strong interest in related business applications and/or infrastructure architecture for data analytics, outstanding students with a strong interest in application of Semantics Technologies in legal domain, ranging from XML to Rules representation schemes are sought after, with a very strong interest in participating in building “documents-to-information” solutions by learning deep and complex XML schema used in the European Union regulatory activities

Competencies

Specialisation in the masters or PhD programs related to the subjects for the internships

Language

English (Fluent) is obligatory

Internship Open for International Students: Applicants of all nationalities are eligible to apply for this internship.

Is this paid internship? This is an unpaid internship programme.

Internship Description: This is a learning opportunity for outstanding students formally engaged in University programmes around the world. The topics are all hands-on and practical, covering all forms of analytics, from building complex models from data to using different tools and engineering methods; focusing on one or more of the following domains and industries: legal informatics, data analytics, applied statistics, machine learning, big data and high performance computing infrastructures (open software solutions, HANA and Bluemix environments leading to cloud deployments); financial services innovative technologies, regulatory technologies, industry 4.0 and digital transformation in manufacturing, algorithms and software prototypes, coding and more.

A number of awards offered: The Institute is opening a number of internship/trainee positions in its Information Technology for Innovative Services (ITIS) Department to be part of a deeply multidisciplinary experience.

How to Apply: Click  The mode of application is online.

Internship Application Deadline: Contact Employer

Highly Skilled Workforce Scholarships at University of Edinburgh, UK 2017-2018

The University of Edinburgh is offering highly Skilled Workforce Scholarship for students starting full-time or part-time master’s programmes. The scholarship is available to UK nationals who are permanently domiciled in Scotland, as well as EU nationals (excluding UK nationals) domiciled in EU or Scotland but not elsewhere in the UK.

The aim of the university is to provide a single point of contact for prospective and enrolled students in finding the financial help and information they need in order to pursue their education.

The University of Edinburgh is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland’s ancient universities.

The University accepts all of the English language qualifications listed i.e. IELTS; TOEFL; PTE; CAE; CPE as well as Trinity ISE Trinity Integrated Skills in English.

Course Level: The scholarship is available for full-time or part-time Master’s degree programme.

Study Subject: The scholarship is awarded to the College of Humanities and Social Science and College of Science and Engineering.

List of subjects: Accounting and Finance, Banking and Risk, Carbon Finance, Energy Finance and Markets, Learning for Sustainability,  Management of Bioeconomy, Innovation and Governance, Outdoor Education, Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education, Science and Technology in Society, Research Science and Technology Studies, Biochemistry,  Bioinformatics, Biotechnology,  Carbon Capture and Storage,Carbon Management, Computational Mathematical Finance, Drug Discovery and Translation Biology, Ecosystem Services,  Environmental Protection and Management, Financial Modelling and Optimization, Geographical Information Science, High Performance Computing, High Performance Computing with Data Science,  Marine Systems and Policies, Mathematical Physics, Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, Next Generation Drug Discovery (including online distance learning),Operational Research, Operational Research with Computational Optimization,  Operational Research with Data Science, Operational Research with Risk, Statistics and Operational Research, Statistics with Data Science, Sustainable Energy Systems, Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology, Theoretical Physics.

Scholarship Award: The scholarships will cover the UK/EU tuition fee and any additional programme costs (APCs). The award of applicant scholarship will be automatically deducted from their tuition fee.

Number of Awards: A large number of Masters Scholarships are available for the 2017-2018 academic session at the University of Edinburgh.

Scholarship can be taken in the UK

Eligibility: Scholarships are available to UK nationals who are permanently domiciled in Scotland, as well as EU nationals (excluding UK nationals) domiciled in the EU or Scotland but not elsewhere in the UK, who have been accepted on an eligible full-time or part-time Master’s degree programme.

Nationality: Students of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom can apply for these master’s scholarships.

College Admission Requirement

Entrance Requirements: The scholarship will be awarded on the basis of academic merit and the benefits to the student. Candidates must have, or expect to obtain the international equivalent of a UK first class or 2:1 Honours degree at undergraduate level.

English language/ Test Requirements: The University accepts all of the English language qualifications listed below

IELTS International English Language Testing System.

TOEFL-Ibt Internet-based Test of English as a Foreign Language Test.

PTE Pearson Test of English (Academic).

CAE Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English.

CPE Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English.

Trinity ISE Trinity Integrated Skills in English.

How to Apply: The mode of application is online.

The applicant must have to submit following documents with their application:

Applicants personal details.

Details of any degrees they hold or expect to hold.

A personal statement of no more than 300 words.

Any additional information that they believe would assist us in evaluating their application.

Details of any other scholarships or awards they hold or have held.

Application Form

https://www.myed.ed.ac.uk/

Application Deadline:  The application deadline first closes on May 2, 2017, and the second on June 30, 2017.

Wellcome Trust Collaborative Awards in Science for International Students in UK, 2017

Wellcome Trust Collaborative Awards are open for promising researchers from the UK, Republic of Ireland and developing countries. These awards are provided for pursuing research in the field of science.

 The aim of the awards is to support young scientist to explore great ideas, at every step of the way from discovery to impact.

Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation, both politically and financially independent. Wellcome Trust support scientists and researchers, take on big problems, fuel imaginations, and spark debate. Wellcome Trust funding supports over 14,000 people in more than 70 countries. Wellcome Trust wants to improve health for everyone by helping great ideas to thrive.

Course Level: These awards are available to pursue research.

Study Subject: These awards are available in the fields of Science.

Scholarship Award: These awards will cover the followings:

A Collaborative Award can be up to £4 million and last for up to five years, but requests must be appropriate to the proposed research. Our support includes:

Research expenses directly related to your proposal

Applicants can also apply for public engagement funds to involve the public in your research and inspire learning.

Numbers of Scholarships: Not known

Scholarship can be taken in the UK

Eligibility: Applicants must meet the following area for the scholarship:

Collaborative Awards are for teams of researchers bringing together the relevant expertise and experience to address the most important scientific problems.

Proven research expertise and experience in their field.

An academic or research post (or equivalent).

A salary for the duration of the award period. If this is not in place, your employing organisation must provide a guarantee of salary support for the duration of the award.

Members of the team must have proven experience in collaborative research and consist of independent research groups.

Team size will depend on the proposed research, but should generally have more than two applicants, and no more than seven. Teams may be based in the same or in different organizations, and must bring different expertise or disciplines to the research question.

Applicants should usually be based on eligible organisations in the UK, Republic of Ireland, or low- or middle-income countries. However, we can make exceptions for projects that need specific expertise or resources provided by team members based in other countries.

Nationality: Applicants of UK, Republic of Ireland, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Cameroon, Egypt, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Congo, Rep, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, El Salvador, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Mauritania, Micronesia, Fed. Sts, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan , Papua New Guinea , Philippines, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Sudan,  Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tonga, Tunisia, Ukraine, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen, Rep. Zambia, Uzbekistan and Timor-Leste can apply for these awards.

College Admission Requirement

Entrance Requirement: Applicants must have an academic or research post (or equivalent).

English Language Requirement: Applicants must meet the necessary language proficiency requirements of the host institution.

UK Scholarships

How to Apply: Applicants can apply through online mode.

Applicants should discuss the scope of your proposal and suitability for the scheme with us before you submit your full application. Please contact the relevant member of Science division.

Online Applicationhttps://wtgrants.wellcome.ac.uk/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f

Application Deadline: The preliminary application deadline is April 20, 2017, and full application deadline is July 13, 2017