2 November: fyi -- phd funding, Sheffield

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a number of studentships are available at the University of Sheffield
for UK, EU and non-EU candidates. See attached. Please feel free to
pass this message to potential candidates. I am personally interested
in applications in the areas of semantic web, information extraction,
and social media.

Many thanks and best wishes

Professor Fabio Ciravegna,
Director of Research & Innovation in the Digital World,
The University of Sheffield
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Professor of Language and Knowledge Technologies,
Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield,
Regent Court, 211 Portobello, S1 4DP, Sheffield, UK
Tel:+44(0)114-22.21940, Fax:+44(0)114-22.21810
www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~fabio/


------- Available studentships -------

1. University/faculty scholarships

These awards cover fees and provide a generous bursary. They're open
to UK, EU and international applicants. There are only a few available
so they are *highly* competitive. Closing date for applications is
mid January. Details can be found here,

http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships/prize.html
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships/faculty
And there is general university research scholarship info here,
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships/

2. Departmental-level scholarships

We will fund 2 or 3 students with an Euro Stipends offering fees and
9k maintenance to UK/EU student; we can also award fee reduction
scholarships for strong international students on a needs basis --
worth about 6.5k off the fee These awards have quite complicated rules
for eligibility, see here,
http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships/epsrc.html

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