GRADUATE TEACHING SCHOLARSHIPS

The Department of Politics University of Glasgow (rated 5 in the last 3RAEs) will offer ONE Graduate Teaching Scholarship commencing in September2006.

Value
Home/EU fee waiver (c£3500) plus £2000 contribution to maintenance, forthree years. The scholarship is open to non UK/EU students but there will bea fee short-fall, which may be met via other funds such as ORS (see below).

Eligibility
a] Candidates must first have been accepted by the Department to do a Ph.D,that is, they must have been judged to possess [i] the requisite standard ofqualifications [ii] a doctoral research topic that falls within thecapacious remit of the Department to supervise (including EU politics andpolicy). In their application* to undertake research they should indicatetheir desire to be considered for one of the scholarships.
b] Candidates will typically possess a Masters degree (or equivalent) or beexpected to complete one in 2005/6.
c] Candidates will be expected to apply for funded scholarships (such asESRC, AHRC, ORS and including those offered by the Faculty of Law, Businessand Social Sciences, University of Glasgow). If successful the candidatemust accept such an award.
d] Candidates must, in the judgment of the Department, be ablesatisfactorily to offer seminar teaching, primarily at pre-honours (years 1& 2) level.
e] The closing date for applications is 1 May 2006 (later applications maybe considered and placed on a ‘reserve’).

Terms & Conditions
a] Scholars will undertake teaching allocated up to but not exceeding 6hours a week, averaged across the academic year.
b] The award of the scholarship in years 2 and 3 is dependent on a positivereport of the annual progress review.
c] Termination of studies will result in termination of the scholarship.
d] Suspension of studies will normally lead to suspension of payments.

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* We normally ask before formal application that intending applicants writea c.1000 word proposal that (inter alia) states the main contention of theresearch and why it is thought important; indicates how the topic will beresearched (the appropriate methodology etc); identifies the type andavailability of sources (and any attendant difficulties) and places brieflythe topic in the existing literature. This proposal should be sent in thefirst instance to the Director of Graduate Studies (Professor Chris Berry[c.j.berry@socsci.gla.ac.uk] until January thereafter Professor ChrisThornhill [c.thornhill@socsci.gla.ac.uk]).

Dr Alasdair Young
Department of Politics
Adam Smith Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8RT
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4679
Fax: +44 (0)141 330 5071

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