Hello All,<br><br>Happy New Year. You may know in your entourage somebody who may be interested in this.<br><br>B.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Heeks</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.heeks@manchester.ac.uk">richard.heeks@manchester.ac.uk</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:45 PM<br>Subject: PhD/DBA in Development Informatics (inc. Scholarship Info.) at Univ. Manchester<br>To: Richard Heeks <<a href="mailto:mzdssrbh@manchester.ac.uk">mzdssrbh@manchester.ac.uk</a>><br>
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The Centre for Development Informatics at the University of Manchester is seeking high-quality PhD and DBA candidates to research topics on ICTs/information systems and socio-economic development. Some scholarships are available for those starting in September 2010; deadline dates vary but many require application before end February or end March 2010.<br>
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Only very high-quality candidates will be considered. We are typically looking for those with a distinction-level Masters degree from an internationally-recognised university in an appropriate topic (which includes but is not limited to information systems, management, or development); good English skills; and a relevant topic for study backed by a proposal that demonstrates an ability to work with academic theory.<br>
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Candidates may choose to study a PhD, for which they will typically be based in Manchester during much of their study, other than a period of fieldwork in a developing country. Those already in employment may choose the DBA route, taken over a four-or-five-year period and requiring roughly two two-week periods of intensive study/supervision per year in Manchester. (Scholarships are not available for DBA study.)<br>
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Selected candidates will join the Centre for Development Informatics, the largest academic group working on issues of ICTs in developing countries (<a href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi" target="_blank">http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi</a>). CDI will consider any topic related to development informatics although we have particular priorities at present for work on: m-finance; ICTs and small/micro-enterprise; gender implications of ICTs; IS methodologies in developing countries; e-government; ICTs and civil society organisations; ICT policy; and ICT-based offshoring.<br>
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Further details about application and scholarships can be found at: <a href="http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/cdi/postgraduate/" target="_blank">http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/cdi/postgraduate/</a><br>
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Richard Heeks & Brian Nicholson<br>
Directors<br>
Centre for Development Informatics<br>
University of Manchester, UK<br>
<a href="http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi" target="_blank">http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi</a><br>
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