PhD in Development Economics (Terrorism, Insecurity, Conflict, and Poverty)
Graduate Center of DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research) (Germany)

The Graduate Center of DIW Berlin is accepting applications for its PhD program in applied economics with focus areas that include terrorism, insecurity, conflict, and poverty. A degree can be awarded in collaboration with the Humboldt University in Berlin. There are no tuition fees, and successful applicants will be awarded with a scholarship for living costs in the first year. In the second and third years, students have the opportunity to join the research staff at DIW Berlin and apply their knowledge and skills to international projects in various areas of development economics.

The deadline for applications is April 15, 2009.

For more information, please refer to the following link: http://www.diw.de/gc

Doctoral Scholarship at Victoria University: The Discourse of Negotiation in Professional Workplace Contexts

The role of effective workplace communication skills for achieving transactional objectives can be considered fundamental to workplace success for most organisations.

While important in all aspects of workplace interaction, these skills are crucial in the negotiation of complex and potentially conflictual agreements which potentially carry far-reaching consequences (Norisada 2007, Prego-Vazquez 2007, Pavlenko and Blackledge 2004, Locher 2004).

The negotiation process is a communicative endeavour with discourse as the tool by which participants achieve (or fail to achieve) their intended outcomes. A detailed analysis of discourse in social interaction can thus throw valuable light on the range of strategies which may contribute to resolving disputes and disagreements in problematic and challenging negotiations.

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University of Alicante, Spain (Spain)
The Department of Economics at the University of Alicante (FAE), Spain, is offering Teaching and Research Assistantship to students enrolling in the Graduate Program.

The Graduate Program is a full-time program leading to a doctoral degree (Ph.D.). The program is taught entirely in English and it provides students with a thorough theoretical and practical training to do independent high-level economic research. The program prepares students for professional careers in universities, public and private research organizations, international institutions, consultancy and business.

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VLIR-UOS launched its ICP Ph.D. programme in order to enable promising graduates of the International Courses (ICP) to make a Ph.D. at a Flemish university. Starting from the academic year 2002-2003, a maximum of ten Ph.D. scholarships can be granted every academic year to excellent ICP graduates from a developing country.

Depending on the approval of the government of the Scholarships Programme of VLIR-UOS, a maximum of 10 ICP Ph.D. scholarships is granted per reference year.

Objectives
The ICP Ph.D. programme aims to institutionally strengthen universities or research institutions in the South through capacity building, by upgrading local academic personnel by offering Ph.D. scholarships.

New in this call

• The ICP Ph.D. programme is now also open to ICP students from developing countries who will graduate in the reference year, i.e. 2009, hence after the selection date. Consequently, their selection is conditional upon their graduation. The call stays open for ICP graduates of maximum 5 years before the reference year. This means that candidates who graduated from an ICP in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 can apply.
• Candidates cannot apply for ICP Ph.D. more than three times.

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University of Sussex, Engineering & Design Masters Scholarships,The Department of Engineering and Design

Building on our research strengths we offer a range of challenging and innovative taught postgraduate programmes as follows:

• MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering
• MSc Aerospace Technology
• MSc Embedded Digital Systems
• MSc Mechanical Engineering
• MSc Modern Communication Technologies with Business Management
• MSc Modern Digital Communication Systems
• MSc Satellite Communications and Space Systems
• MSc Security Technologies and Systems
• MSc Turbomachinery

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