Eleven (11) PhD Scholarships in Digital Civics, Newcastle University, UK (2016)

We have 11 fully funded four-year doctoral studentships in Digital Civics (commencing September 2016) and are seeking applicants with a passion for civic life, an interest in how digital technologies can be used to support citizens and communities, and an undergraduate or masters level education in one of the constituent disciplines of our EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics: computer science, design, education, health sciences, planning and architecture, politics, business and social science.

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Digital Civics at Newcastle University trains doctoral students in the design, deployment and evaluation of community-driven digital technologies and services. Whether it is through the redesign of local services within communities, or rethinking how citizens can and do interact with local government, technology innovation and design has a critical role to play in enabling digitally connected citizens and communities. The CDT will train a minimum of 55 doctoral students (5 annual intakes of at least 11 students), 22 of which started in September 2014 and September 2015.

The CDT in Digital Civics brings together a wealth of expertise at Newcastle University, and is a collaboration between 5 of the University’s leading research centres in: Human-Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing (at Open Lab); security, privacy and trust (Centre for Cybercrime and Computer Security); teaching and learning (Centre for Learning and Teaching); planning (Global Urban Research Unit) and public health and social care (Institute for Health & Society). Doctoral trainees will be supervised by a cross-disciplinary committee of academics from these centres, and will be expected to undertake projects related to at least one of six Digital Civics research themes:

- human-computer interaction, ubiquitous and social computing
- collaborative and participatory design
- digital security, privacy and trust
- digital public health and social care
- digital community learning
- digital local democracy

The CDT is a unique partnership between Newcastle University, Newcastle City Council, Gateshead Council and Northumberland County Council, as well as a range of local, national and global industry and third sector partners. The CDT aims to deliver applied research training for doctoral researchers and includes a program of intensive training and research, internships and placements at some of the world’s leading charities, companies and universities.

Further details:
http://www.universitypositions.eu