News - New Postgraduate Study Opportunities
University of Exeter press release
The University of Exeter, which has a campus in Cornwall, has created 180 new opportunities for postgraduate study, worth over £7 million. These new studentships and bursaries will provide a major boost to the University's postgraduate research activities and help deliver the next generation of academics. From politics to ecology, history to molecular biology, there are opportunities for PhD research in a whole range of subject areas across the University's campuses in Exeter and at Tremough, Penryn.
100 fully-funded studentships are now available, which include fees for three years plus an annual maintenance grant to cover living expenses. An additional 80 bursaries are worth £7,000 a year for three years and include the opportunity to teach undergraduate students. These positions will all start in Autumn 2009 and many can be taken up on the Tremough Campus.
The number of applications for PhD research has increased by 43% over the last three years. The University now has just over 1,200 PhD students, 59 of whom are based at Tremough. One recent PhD graduate, Dr James Jobling-Purser has now launched his own company in Penryn, Jobling-Purser RSV LLP, to manufacture and promote the mine-surveying 'robot' he created for his PhD studies.
Professor Matthew Evans, Provost of the University of Exeter's Cornwall Campus (Tremough), said: "We are striving to become one of the UK's top ten universities and to achieve this aim we must help deliver the next generation of academic researchers. We are responding to this challenge by giving the best candidates an opportunity to realise their potential in Cornwall."
Carleen Kelemen, Director of the Convergence Partnership Office for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, said: "This is a very exciting opportunity for students studying with the University of Exeter at the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC) Tremough campus. The capacity of universities to generate commercial ideas and new businesses continues to be the key driver of European investment across the whole of the CUC partnership."
Anyone interested in applying for these studentships or bursaries can find out more at: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate/2009studentships
The multi-million-pound Tremough Campus is a Combined Universities in Cornwall initiative -of which the University of Exeter and University College Falmouth are two of the founding partners. It is funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council. Set in 95 acres, and close to the waterside towns of Penryn and Falmouth, the Campus offers a lively student community. The University of Exeter now offers degrees in Biology, Cornish Studies, English, Geology, Geography, History, Law, Mining Engineering, Politics and Renewable Energy on the Campus, whilst University College Falmouth offers undergraduate degrees in Broadcasting, Contemporary Crafts, Digital Animation, English with Creative Writing, English with Media Studies, Film, Garden Design, Interior Design, Marine & Natural History Photography, Photography, Press Photography, Spatial Design, Textile and 3D Design as well as MAs in Broadcast Journalism, Design, International Journalism, Professional Writing and Television Production at the Penryn site.