A three-year post-doctoral position within computational/artificial intelligence and games (particularly user modelling and procedural content generation) is available at the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen.

The SIREN project aims to create a new type of educational game, the conflict resolution game, which takes advantage of recent advances in serious games, social networks, computational intelligence and emotional modelling to create uniquely motivating and educating games that help shape how children think about and handle conflicts.

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At Centre for International Business Law (CIBL) at Department of Business Law at Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus University, 5 PhD scholarships will be available from July 1, 2010, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The overall research theme of the scholarships is sustainability and the internationali­sa­tion of law. Focus is on the initiatives of legal and quasi-legal character that have been launched within the area of sustainability with importance for the business community. This encompasses rules that influence the business community’s legal relations with investors, suppliers, other business associates and society in a broad sense. In addition to these matters being regulated on a national level, there is often a regulation on EU-level and from time to time also on UN, OECD and WTO levels. The fact that there are several regulators can mean that companies could be facing particularly encumbering and mutually conflicting demands. That is why it is very important to focus on the consequences of the internationalisation of law in the analysis of how to legally secure sustainability in the best way, and therefore this is expected to be a recurring theme in all PhD projects.

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The Drug Research Academy at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen is pleased to announce that a PhD fellowship will be available from 1 June 2010 to encourage young science graduates to embark on a career in drug research. The purpose of the Drug Research Academy is to train the next generation of drug researchers. Emphasis is on integrated research training to enable researchers to conduct innovative drug research in an interdisciplinary and highly integrated environment. The PhD study programme includes obligatory PhD courses with focus on key elements in drug research. The industrial perspective is considered essential and at least three months of research must be carried out in an industrial environment. Applications are invited for the three-year fellowship from candidates that hold or expect to hold a master´s degree in a field relevant to the following project: (more…)

The Department of Linguistics & TESOL at The University of Texas at Arlington would like to announce the availability of five assistantships for new students admitted for study in our PhD program starting in Fall 2010. These graduate teaching assistantships will have a 9 month stipend of $15,300 and cover tuition for 9 hours of coursework a semester (9 hours is a full-time load).

Our Department has an established doctoral program, with strengths in language documentation, formal linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, phonetics), corpus linguistics, and second language acquisition (especially experimental approaches to SLA). Faculty strengths also include Asian, Austronesian, and Native American languages. We are hiring two new faculty this year, one in language documentation and syntax and another in second language acquisition. Facilities include a new Speech Sounds Lab with a soundproof booth and a portable ultrasound. The graduate students in our Department also organize an annual student conference that includes the Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics, which awards a cash prize to the top presentations at the conference. (more…)