Singapore: PhD Scholarships from Asia Research Institute
Asia Research Institute is offering Ph.D. scholarships from August 2006in the specific interdisciplinary areas listed below, to be taken upjointly with the appropriate discipline-based department. This wouldnormally be with a department of the Faculty of Arts and SocialSciences, but where appropriate could also be with the Faculty of Law,School of Business or School of Design & Environment at theNational University of Singapore:
THE CHANGING FAMILY IN ASIA
ASIAN MIGRATIONS
CULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA
RELIGION & GLOBALISATION IN ASIAN CONTEXTS
SOUTHEAST ASIA/CHINA INTERACTIONS
SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Interested applicants are required to submit their application to ARIat the address stated below by 30 Nov 2005, indicating clearly bothwhich ARI interdisciplinary area they wish to join and which departmentthey would be attached to. Application procedures and forms can beobtained from the NUS website via this URL: http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/prospective/graduate/application.html
Applicants must use the application forms in the respective Facultywebsites depending on the Faculty to which they wish to seek admission.
The Changing Family In Asia (Prof. Gavin Jones) focuses on changingfamily forms, roles and structures in Asian societies, as otherinstitutions take over some family functions, low fertility, delayedmarriage and longevity transform family composition, and labour marketrealities and changing gender relations affect internal family dynamics.
Asian Migration (A/Prof Brenda Yeoh) explores the issues arising fromincreased levels of human mobility in the region, both within andacross national borders. Mobility of high-level professional andmanagerial personnel, skilled and unskilled labour migration and humantrafficking all raise theoretical and methodological questions andmajor policy issues, as does the role of migration in urban change.
Religion and Globalisation In Asian Contexts (Prof. Bryan Turner)explores the changing patterns of religious practice, belief andidentity in recent times, particularly in Southeast Asia, China andSouth Asia. The title implies a particular interest in transnationaland diasporic interactions, the engagement with modern technologies andvalues, and new global or ‘glocal’ forms of identity.
Cultural Studies in Asia (Prof. Chua Beng Huat)
An emergent focus of scholarship in Asia, Cultural Studies consciouslychallenges disciplinary boundaries to address new topics, issues andconcerns thrown up by the rapid globalization of contemporary cultures.ARI is interested in new understandings of the everyday life culturalpractices of contemporary Asia.
Southeast Asia China interactions (Prof Anthony Reid & Dr GeoffreyWade) explores both historical and contemporary themes that arebringing East and Southeast Asia closer together, and is interested inany mix of the political, economic, cultural or social.
Southeast Asian Archaeology (A/Prof John Miksic) explores ancient portcities in Southeast Asia with the aim of being a resource centre forSoutheast Asian archaeology, history and art.
The Asia Research Institute (ARI) is a university-level institute thatwas formed in July 2001 as one of the strategic initiatives of theNational University of Singapore (NUS). The mission of the Institute isto provide a world-class focus and resource for research on the Asianregion, located at one of its communication hubs. ARI engages thesocial sciences broadly defined, and especially interdisciplinaryfrontiers between and beyond disciplines. Through frequent provision ofshort-term research appointments it seeks to be a place of encountersbetween the region and the world. Within NUS it works particularly withthe Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Business, Law and Design, tosupport research, conferences, lectures, and graduate study at thehighest level.
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