Fully funded studentship at Loughborough University

The Department of Information Science at Loughborough University and the Welsh Assembly Government are jointly offering a fully-funded PhD studentship to UK/EU applicants. The UK/EU university tuition fee will be paid and recipients will also receive a tax-free stipend at the EPSRC standard rate (£13,290 for 2009/10).
The PhD study will involved working closely with the Welsh Assembly Government to extend the Email Knowledge Extraction system, developed at Loughborough University, to incorporate the automated categorisation and classification of emails stored within email archives. The research will involve developing an effective way of determining the context and the nature of email before it can be categorised and classified. It will also involve developing and evaluating an employee profiling tool which uses the content of emails to determine the domain in which the employee works and the probability that the email will contain information that needs to be stored.
You are required to apply for PhD research in the normal way via http://www.lboro.ac.uk/prospectus/pg/essential/forms/index.htm You should clearly state that you wish your application to be considered for a fully funded studentship offered by the Department of Information Science and the Welsh Assembly Government.
Deadline for submission of full application is Monday 5th July and it is anticipated that interviews will take place soon after. The successful applicant will be expected to have commenced PhD study by October 1st 2010.
Informal enquiries about the research project should be made to Dr Tom Jackson at t.w.jackson@lboro.ac.uk or on +44(0)1509 635666.
Enquiries about the application process can be made to Lynda Langton at l.langton@lboro.ac.uk or on +44(0)1509 223081.
Applicants should have:
* A first class honours or a good upper second class degree in either information science, computer science or a related discipline.
* An understanding of public sector organisations.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
The successful applicant will join the Department of Information Science, which has a thriving PhD community, and be supervised by Dr Tom Jackson. S/he will be based at Loughborough University but there will be a requirement to travel to collect empirical data and to attend meetings at the offices of the Welsh Assembly Government (all travel expenses will be covered by the studentship).

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