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Newcastle University Konishi Foundation Scholarship for PhD Students 2024

Published: 16 Feb 2024 444 views

The Konishi Foundation Scholarship provides support to an excellent candidate who wishes to pursue a PhD in Politics in topics related to East Asian politics within the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. For purposes of this call, East Asia includes China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.   

Research Topics: We seek applicants interested in researching topics related to research in any of the major sub-fields of Politics including studies of the East Asian nations, comparative studies employing at least one of these nations as a case, or political research focused on East Asian diaspora populations.   

We have expertise in comparative politics (i.e., identity politics, political behaviour, political economy, political institutions, party politics, and electoral systems), international relations (i.e., international organisations, international agreements, film, pop-culture, political economy, security studies, and foreign relations), political philosophy and theory, gender and politics, environmental politics, sustainability, public policy. 

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Newcastle University (Officially, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North-East of England. The university can trace its origins to a School of Medicine and Surgery (later the College of Medicine), established in 1834, and to the College of Physical Science (later renamed Armstrong College), founded in 1871. These two colleges came to form one division of the federal University of Durham, with the Durham Colleges forming the other. The Newcastle colleges merged to form King's College in 1937. In 1963, following an Ac... continue reading

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• Sponsor Newcastle University
• City to study Newcastle upon Tyne
• School to study Newcastle University
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• Application Deadline February 19, 2024

Full tuition fees paid at the home or international rate for 3 years and annual tax-free maintenance grant equivalent to the National Minimum Doctoral Stipend (currently for 2023-24 this is  £18,622  full time equivalent) across 4 years.

Funding for fieldwork and research consumables equivalent to the current ESRC rate. 

• East Asian Studies

A demonstrable interest in social scientific inquiry is essential. It is desirable that the successful applicant shows evidence of an interest in East Asian politics and their substantive area in general, in addition to the eligibility requirements set by the university for a Politics PhD (i.e., 2:1 honours degree and a master's degree, or international equivalent, in politics or a related subject.) 

Applicants whose first language is not English require an IELTS score of 7.0 overall with a minimum of 6.5 in all sub-skills. 

Supervisors

Please specify two Politics academic staff members from the  School of Geography, Politics and Sociology  at Newcastle University who are actively researching areas appropriate to your research.  

You will then need to provide the following information in the ‘Further Details’ section:  

• a ‘Personal Statement’ (this is a mandatory field) - upload a document or write a statement directly in to the application form (one-page in length) 
• the studentship code  GPSKON24  in the ‘Studentship/Partnership Reference’ field 
• when prompted for how you are providing your research proposal - select ‘Write Proposal’. You should then type in the title of the research project from this advert –and your research proposal. The research proposal must not exceed 2,000 words (including footnotes, but excluding bibliography).  

The research proposal should include:   

• Clear research question(s). 
• Relevant supporting body of research in the discipline related to the question(s). 
• Clear methodological approach to answer the question(s). 
• Relevance and potential impact of the research.  

In addition, you will need to upload the following supporting documentation:  

• CV  
• A 750-word overview of your relevant skills, knowledge, qualifications and/or professional experience that will enable your undertaking of the project. Clearly include the proposed methodological training that you would require to receive in order to succeed in the research. If you need language training, please include it as well. This letter must state the title of the studentship, quote studentship reference code  GPSKON24  and state how your experiences relate to the project. 
• Degree transcripts and certificates and, if English is not your first language, a copy of your English language qualification if already completed. 
• You should also provide details of two referees. 

To apply, please contact Dr Rosario Aguilar ( [email protected] ) and Dr Nick Randall ( [email protected] ) directly to express an interest before 5th February 2024.  

The deadline for full applications is 19th February 2024. 

To apply for a studentship, you must apply through the  Apply to Newcastle Portal  

Once registered select  ‘Create a Postgraduate Application’.  

Use ‘Course Search’ to identify your programme of study:  

• search for the ‘Course Title’ using the programme code: 8203F
• Leave 'Research Area' field blank   
• select ‘ PhD Politics (full time)  as the programme of study 

For more details visit:  Newcastle University website .

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Ill Nigerian PhD student who complained faces losing UK visa

Home office notification of sue agazie highlights ‘weaponisation of immigration status’ by universities when students complain, say critics.

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Supporters of a Nigerian PhD student facing potential deportation after her doctoral studies were halted by illness and a breakdown in relations with her supervisor have claimed her plight highlights the precarity of international students who complain about their course.

Sue Agazie, a copywriter from Lagos, moved to the UK in January 2023 to begin a PhD in marketing at Newcastle University Business School on the understanding, she claimed, that she was likely to receive a full scholarship for her studies or would gain enough part-time academic work to cover her living costs.

However, funding and paid work did not materialise in the way suggested, said Ms Agazie, who added that she has run up huge debts to finance her PhD.

Amid a breakdown in relations with her primary supervisor over her money troubles, Ms Agazie was then diagnosed with kidney failure in September 2023.

With a formal complaint launched against Newcastle and her supervisor over allegedly misleading her over funding, Ms Agazie has now been informed that Newcastle has contacted the Home Office over her absence from supervisions – a move that could see her visa revoked.

That would mean her husband and young child, who travelled with Ms Agazie to north-east England, would also be forced to leave the country.

Her case is now being championed by Unis Resist Border Controls, a campaign group that raises awareness of how migrant university staff have  been affected by the UK’s hostile environment policies.  More than 250 people – including many PhD students and scholars – have signed a  petition  urging the Home Office to stop any visa curtailment.

Its spokeswoman Sanaz Raji, a visiting researcher at Northumbria University , said the notification of the Home Office was an example of the “weaponisation of her immigration status” in a disputes process.

In a statement, Newcastle said “complaints are investigated following the university’s standard procedures”. “Where a complaint has been made by a postgraduate student about their supervisor, our normal practice would be to investigate the matter and explore arrangements for an alternative supervisor if that becomes necessary,” it continued.

“We can’t discuss individual cases, but we offer a range of support to postgraduate students including advice on visa issues, hardship funding, and support to have a break in study where there is an illness or other circumstances.”

Under Home Office rules, higher education institutions must notify authorities if students fail to attend class or discontinue their course, although Ms Agazie said she intends to finish her studies.

The lack of support for a “critically ill” student  also indicated how “universities instrumentalise migrant students from the Global South as sources of income that they can afterwards dispose of”, said Ms Raji in a reference to the multimillion-pound revenues received by universities from international postgraduates.

According to official statistics, Nigeria is the UK’s third largest source of international students behind China and India with about  44,000 studying in 2021-22,  mostly at postgraduate level.

According to Ms Raji, Ms Agazie was led to believe that many PhD students in her situation had found plentiful paid work and obtained scholarships, but these apparent success stories did not stand up once they were investigated.

With the threat of visa revocation looming, students would, however, be reluctant to complain if things go wrong, said Ms Agazie. “Forcing an international student into immigration problems while a complaint is under way…is basically telling international students not to complain,” she said.

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Competition Law and Policy Workshop: A Foresight Approach

04 June 2024, 8:30 am–6:30 pm

A Cambridge-UCL Competition Law and Policy Hub event

Event Information

The Cambridge-UCL Competition Law and Policy Hub is delighted to invite you to 'Competition Law and Policy Workshop: A Foresight Approach', a conference aimed to engage with groundbreaking scholarship on the current and future challenges of competition law, taking a foresight perspective.

The workshop will be held at UCL Faculty of Laws on Tuesday 4th June 2024 from 11 am to 17.45. It will be preceded by the UCL Competition Law and Policy Book Fest to which you are all cordially invited to attend (from 9.00 - 11.00).

About the workshop

We aim to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of groundbreaking research on new approaches, concepts, tools and themes in EU and UK competition law scholarship that will make an impact in a fast changing world. We are eager to involve junior and mid-career researchers based in the UK (or in the EU) in order to present their recent research that fits the overall theme of the conference.

Each session will be an interactive discussion that will involve a short presentation of the papers by their authors, discussion by a commentator and time for a Q&A session with the audience.

We are particularly eager to promote inter-disciplinary perspectives in competition law scholarship.

09.30 Welcome: Prof. Ioannis Lianos & Prof. Okeoghene Odudu

09.35 1st UCL Competition Law and Policy Book Fest

This session will proceed to four book launches for books recently published by UCL related authors. A short presentation by the author, followed by brief commentator remarks and then 10 minutes of discussion and questions.

Chair: Okeoghene Odudu (Cambridge)

• Amber Darr's Competition Law in South Asia – comment by Dina Waked (Sciences Po Paris)
• Ioannis  Lianos', Alexey Ivanov's & Dennis Davis' Competition Law and Global Food Value Chains – comment by Eleanor Fox (NYU) & Julian Nowag (Lund)
• Gonenc Gurkaynak's Innovation Paradox in Merger Control – comment by Pablo Ibanez Colomo (LSE)

10.30 Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:00 Igor Nikolic's Licensing Standard Essential Patents – comment by Robin Jacob (UCL)

11.00  Session 1: New Challenges to Competition Law: Digital Ecosystems, AI Chair: Pablo Ibanez Colomo (LSE)

• Pankhudi Khandelwal (EUI), ‘Interoperability in Digital Markets: Extending the regulatory and technical framework from the financial sector’
• Quentin B. Schäfer (Strathclyde), ‘AI, IP, and Competition Policy: Adjusting Policy Levers to a new GPT’
• Deni Mantzari (UCL), ‘FRAND in Article 6(12) DMA: a pragmatic approach with unintended consequences’
• Ioannis Lianos (UCL), Klaas Hendrik Eller (U Amsterdam), Tobias Kleinschmitt (Humboldt), ‘Towards a Legal Theory of (Digital) Ecosystems’

13.00  Lunch

14.00  Session 2: Law and Political Economy of Competition Law in the 21st century: the complexity challenge Chair: Ioannis Lianos (UCL)

• Oles Andriychuk (Newcastle Univ), ‘EU Digital Competition Law: The Socio-Legal Foundations’
• Stavros Makris (Glasgow), ‘A Smithian Political Economy Approach for the Competition Law of the 21st Century’
• Amber Darr (Manchester), ‘Human development and the Potential of Competition: a South Asian Perspective’
• Andrew McLean (Edinburgh), ‘Innovation Against Change’

Commentator:  Justin Lindeboom (Groningen)

15.30  Coffee Break

15.50 Session 3: Trends: Main Themes in Competition Law Scholarship Chair: Despoina Mantzari (UCL)

• Grigoris Bacharis (LSE) and John Kwan (CMA), ‘Public Redress in UK Competition Enforcement: A Study of Rationales and Techniques’
• Matthew Twendell (Geradin and Partners/UCL), ‘Restitutionary relief for competition law infringements’
• Todd Davies (UCL) and Spencer Cohen (Oxford), ‘Error costs, Platform Regulation and Democracy’

Commentator: Julian Nowag (Lund)

17.30 Conclusions and Launch of the Valentine Korah Funding initiative

17.45 - Reception

The Cambridge-UCL Competition Law and Policy Hub is a joint initiative of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at UCL Faculty of Laws and the Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge University and is directed by Professor Ioannis Lianos (UCL Faculty of Laws) and Professor Okeoghene Odudu (University of Cambridge).

The aim of the Hub is to enhance the research exchanges between academics and PhD students in the areas of competition law and economics and more broadly regulatory policy, between UCL and Cambridge University, but also beyond, and provide a forum for the presentation of groundbreaking research in these areas and of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and reflections on topics of common interests.

More information about the Hub see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/cles/research-initiatives/cambridge-ucl-competition-law-and-policy-hub

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Surveillance and Characterisation of Arboviruses in the Hunter Region

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Climate change has the potential to amplify the threat of mosquito-transmitted (arbovirus) diseases in Australia. This research project aims to improve mosquito surveillance methods and enhance our understanding of mosquito-borne viruses.

The emergence of SARS-COV-2 as a pandemic virus has demonstrated the need for emerging infectious diseases monitoring. Newly emerging viruses are poised to trigger future epidemics, or unpredictably change their interactions between animal vectors and humans.

Mosquito-borne arboviruses represent a significant health burden in Australia with the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System reporting increasing virus notifications across the country. Factors such as rapid urbanisation, global warming and meteorological events can create favourable conditions for the survival of mosquitoes which in turn may impact public health by promoting arbovirus transmission. This was exemplified in 2022, when Australia experienced an outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis Virus with 46 cases and 7 deaths. In 2023 there was an outbreak of Murray Valley Encephalitis with 9 cases, 3 deaths, and the first human case in Australia since 1974.

In NSW, arbovirus surveillance is carried out by the Arbovirus Surveillance and Mosquito Monitoring Program. This program operates from spring to autumn and performs molecular analysis (i.e., PCR identification of viral genomes) in sentinel chicken flocks and live mosquitos at laboratories in Sydney. However, arbovirus surveillance in the Hunter New England health district only includes Lake Macquarie to the South and Lake Cathie to the North, underscoring the necessity for localised surveillance and monitoring.

To respond to this need, this cross-College PhD project aims to

1) Investigate and improve established quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) surveillance of known arboviruses in local mosquito populations

2) Determine the types of mosquito-borne viruses present in the Hunter New England region by analysing mosquitoes captured during the 2022/2023 mosquito season

3) Characterise newly detected viruses using sequence analysis, molecular cloning techniques and cell-based virus characterisation. We anticipate collaborations across the sector including the NSW Department of Health and CSIRO.

By addressing these objectives, this project will contribute to the development of a local arbovirus monitoring platform and expand knowledge on circulating viruses to better understand the impact on public health.

PhD Scholarship details

TUNRA scholarship, $32,192 (2024 rate, indexed annually) for 3.5 years. For a PhD candidate, the living allowance scholarship is for 3.5 years, and the tuition fee scholarship is for four years.

Funding: TUNRA scholarship, $32,192 (2024 rate, indexed annually) for 3.5 years. For a PhD candidate, the living allowance scholarship is for 3.5 years, and the tuition fee scholarship is for four years.

Supervisor: Prof Nathan Bartlett, Prof Brett Neilan, Dr Camille Esneau, Dr Verlaine Timms

Available to: Domestic students

Eligibility Criteria

The PhD candidate will ideally have a science or biomedical background with some experience in molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics, virology and/or entomology. The candidate will have the opportunity for training and core involvement in multiple aspects of the project (clinic assessments, laboratory analyses, process evaluation).

The applicant will need to meet the minimum  eligibility criteria  for admission.

Application Procedure

Interested applicants should send an email expressing their interest along with scanned copies of their academic transcripts, CV, a brief statement of their research interests and a proposal that specifically links them to the research project. to [email protected] by 20 July 2024 at 5pm.

Interested applicants should send an email expressing their interest along with scanned copies of their academic transcripts, CV, a brief statement of their research interests and a proposal that specifically links them to the research project.

Please send the email expressing interest to [email protected] by 5pm on 20 July 2024 .

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