We are pleased to announce that Chimera, the Institute for Social and Technical Research at the University of Essex is now accepting applications for places on its 2007 PhD programme (October intake).
Chimera has a postgraduate research programme recognised by both the ESRC and EPSRC as a centre for full-time and part-time research studentships including industry-funded CASE awards. We are open to applications from prospective students who wish to study the interactions between technologies and society in a lively post-disciplinary research oriented environment. Candidates must exhibit the potential to excel in incisive and innovative thinking which can help to understand the social and technical dynamics of societal change and/or develop and test new societal tools and applications.

Our research activities and students are clustered into two groups but cross-group projects and student research programmes are actively encouraged. It is our practice at Chimera to enable research students to undertake 1-2 days per week paid research work on projects relevant to their PhD if they and their supervisors agree and if the funds are available. This provides invaluable project collaborative research experience and often involves working closely with industrial or public sponsors.

For further information including application instructions see:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/phd.html

Deadline for Application:
1st June 2007