West Indies, looking for information about one of our Master or Doctoral programs or have a research interest that you would like to develop, this site is your link to post graduate study and research at Cave Hill Campus.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
EXAMINATION NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS:
ORAL EXAMINATIONS
Oral Defense of the Ph.D.(Sociology) thesis by Veronica Evelyn
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Time: 10:00 A.M.
Place: Main Conference Room, Cave Hill Campus,University of the West Indies
Title: "Adolescent Interface with the Television and the Internet: Subjective Responses to Objective Possibilities"
Oral Defense of the Ph.D.(Education) thesis by Wendy-Griffith Watson
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Time: 10:00 A.M.
Place: Main Conference Room, Cave Hill Campus,University of the West Indies
Title: "The Influence of Students’ Perceptions of Their Learning Styles on Academic Achievement in Selected Co-educational Secondary Schools in Barbados"
The University of Mississippi: MA Initiative for Language Teaching Assistants (MILTA) - Scholarship for Master of Arts Candidates
The University of Mississippi is pleased to announce and make a call for applicants to the MILTA program. This program provides scholarships for graduates or employees from The University of Mississippi partner institutions abroad. MILTA recruits qualified candidates who would like to pursue a Master of Arts degree in Modern Languages at The University of Mississippi. Read more>>
Warwick-David Nicholls Doctoral Scholarship in Caribbean Studies
The David Nicholls Memorial Trust and the University of Warwick are jointly offering a three year scholarship to undertake research for a MPhil/PhD at the University of Warwick from October 2008.
Applications are invited to undertake doctoral research in any field of Caribbean Studies, including the Caribbean diaspora and any language/language area of the Caribbean region, and within the broad disciplines of political or social sciences or the humanities. Students may study in any of the departments, schools or centres of the University of Warwick at which supervision for their chosen topic is available (for details, see http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite )
Applications are particularly invited from students with an interest in the areas of study most closely associated with David Nicholls’ scholarship and work. Further details of these are available at http://www.dnmt.org.uk/dnmt/index.php
Award holders will receive a maintenance grant at the equivalent rate to that provided in the UK by the Economic and Social Research Council (£12,940 in 2008/9) and the payment of full academic fees over the normal three years during which they will be expected to be registered full-time at the University of Warwick.
Award holders will also be able to apply separately to the David Nicholls Memorial Trust for a travel award to facilitate fieldwork in the Caribbean should this be necessary. Applicants should complete an application form, which is available from Jocasta Gardner, Graduate School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL (J.H.Gardner@warwick.ac.uk <mailto:J.H.Gardner@warwick.ac.uk>) as well as the normal application for study for a postgraduate research degree at the University of Warwick, which is available to be completed on-line at http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/
The separate application form for the Warwick – David Nicholls Doctoral Scholarship should be returned no later that 6 June 2008 to Jocasta Gardner, Graduate School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK or by email to J.H.Gardner@warwick.ac.uk by which time all necessary documentation to support your University postgraduate application form should also have been sent to the University of Warwick.
CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTA
Research Training Programme 2008-2009
The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, invites applications for its Research Training Programme in History, Economics, Political Science, Geography, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Development Studies and Cultural Studies. The programme which will run from August 2008 to June 2009 is meant for research students in India and the countries of the South in the early stages of their doctoral work.
Applications are invited from research students below the age of 30 years with a post-graduate degree in any branch of humanities and the social sciences with at least 50% marks or B+ on an eight point scale.
The prospectus is available from:
The Registrar
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,
Calcutta R-1,
Baishnabghata-Patuli Township,
Kolkata 700 094
Email: info@cssscal.org
Or Download PDF from www.cssscal.org
The last date for receipt of applications from international participants is May 15, 2008 and for students from India May 30, 2008.
