White Rose Studentships University of Leeds

There are four White Rose Studentships to be taken up at the University of Leeds in September or October 2009. On each project there will be joint supervision with the University of Sheffield or the University of York.

VALUE OF SCHOLARSHIPS

• These full-time studentships provide tuition fees at the UK rate and an annual maintenance grant of £13,290 to be increased annually in line with the basic Research Council Rate;
• The School in which the student is registered at the University of Leeds will receive an overall Project Support Grant of £2,700 for the lifetime of the award, of which the School should pay £500 directly to the department/school in the collaborating institution. The remainder will be used at the discretion of the supervisors to support the research and inter-institutional collaboration.

CONDITION

• The awards are available for candidates commencing full-time research degree study in September or October 2009.
• Awards will be tenable for one year in the first instance and are renewable annually for second and third years of study, subject to the recommendation of the Head of School, and on condition that the student is registered as a candidate for the degree of PhD by the start of the second year of research;
• The award holders will be registered as research degree students at the University of Leeds and are bound by the regulations of this University;
• The University of the second supervisor will provide full access to its facilities on the same basis as it would to its own research students;
• Any paid work undertaken by the student will be restricted to 8 hours relevant employment (eg teaching or demonstrating) each week;
• The intellectual property rights arising from the research will belong absolutely to the two Universities that are providing the supervision. The students must agree to take such action as may be required (at no cost to themselves) to vest the title and interest in all property rights in the two Universities. In turn, the Universities acknowledge that out of any sums derived by the exploitation of any invention or discovery, they will make due recompense to the student for his/her contribution to the invention or discovery.

DEADLINE

30 April 2009

FURTHER INFORMATION

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rds/postgraduate_scholarships/wrs-app.doc