Pursue your research dreams for three months 2010 Sanger Institute Prize Competition The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is a world leader in genomic research and provides the perfect environment for aspiring scientists to begin to realise their research ambitions. The winners of the Sanger Institute Prize will be offered an all expenses paid* 3-month internship in an Institute laboratory during the summer of 2010. To explore the research undertaken at the Sanger Institute please visit our academic faculty pages. The Sanger Institute Prize is an opportunity to experience the very cutting edge of genomic research and the competition is open to all undergraduates with a strong interest in the genomics field and a good command of English. We particularly welcome entries from those studying in the developing countries. The 2010 competition will be run as a two stage process. Stage one: expression of interest The expression of interest should consist of:
Stage two: essay The expressions of interest will be reviewed by the Sanger Institute Prize Fund Board of Trustees and, during March 2010, those shortlisted will be invited to submit an essay. The title of the essay will be provided and the essayist will be expected to demonstrate an understanding and insight into genetics and/or genomics as well as a proficiency in the use of the English language. The deadline for the receipt of the essay is likely to be around mid-April 2010 and the winner will be notified by the end of May 2010. The winner will be expected to take up their internship during summer 2010. The judges' decision will be final and no further correspondence will be entered into. * Travel to the UK (if required), accommodation and living expenses Source: www.sanger.ac.uk/workstudy/placements/prize.html Two funded places on the MSc Health Sciences (Health Services Research) are available for 2010/2011. The funding will include a 12k stipend in addition to course fees of £3,300 (overseas students will have to supplement the fees to match the overseas rate). The studentships are for a period of 1 year full-time but may also be considered for two years part-time. MSc Health Sciences (Health Services Research) is a taught programme with a substantial research component, which will be conducted within the trials unit. Students will be able to choose from a range of projects working on currently active trials or trial methodology depending on interests and background and be supervised by two members of staff. The successful candidates will work with the York Trials Unit. The York Trials Unit, established in 1996, is a National Institute of Health or Research (NIHR) accredited Trials Unit. The Unit is embedded within the Department of Health Sciences and undertakes large pragmatic trials and has evaluated a wide range of health care interventions. The Unit has a national and international reputation for the design and conduct of rigorous trials and a developing reputation for methodological research. The Department of Health Sciences is large and multidisciplinary, offering a broad range of taught and research programmes in the health and social care field. It aims to develop the role of scientific evidence in health and health care through high quality research, teaching and other forms of dissemination. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, we were rated first nationally for Health Services Research, together with colleagues from the Centre for Health Economics and the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination. Our Nursing and Midwifery research was ranked fourth nationally and Epidemiology and Public Health nineteenth. To Apply Initial interest to be directed to Dr Joy Adamson (Programme Leader), Telephone: (01904) 321378, Email: ja14@york.ac.uk The deadline for applications for the above programme is 31 March 2010 and interviews are scheduled for 13 April 2010 - successful applicants will be notified. Please complete the online application form - which can be accessed in the box on the righthand side of this page, or you can request that we post one to you. If you require further information please contact Diane Stockdale, Graduate Administrator, Department of Health Sciences. Email: ds21@york.ac.uk Apply for 2010. Click to download: Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN) is a current awareness website and quarterly journal published by the British Medical Journal. Each week a wide range of medical journals are screened and the two best articles, according to quality and validity criteria, relevant to nursing are chosen for review and comment. We are looking for nurses or related allied health professionals who are interested in writing an occasional commentary on chosen articles in their specialist field. Commentaries will be around 700 words and aim to discuss the context of the problem addressed by the paper (epidemiology, history etc), to provide a brief description and critique of the methods, results and conclusions of the article, along with the clinical and nursing implications for practice, and how the results fit in with what is currently known in the field. The turn-around time for a commentary is about three weeks. Commentaries for EBN are indexed in PubMed/Medline (you will be the published author), and they provide an opportunity to appraise and critically comment on articles that are highly relevant to the nursing field. We are looking to create a directory of potential commentators along with details of their specialist interests. If you would like to be on this list, please contact us. By responding to this call, you are not committing yourself to writing commentaries immediately; instead we will contact you when a suitable article is chosen and allow you 'first refusal'. If you are interested in being a commentator for EBN, or if you just have any questions, then please contact the content editor, Alan Lovell, at alan.lovell@bazian.com. Website: http://ebn.bmj.com The Centre of African Studies will in October 2010 launch a new nine-month MPhil course in African Studies. Our aim is to offer students a window into the cultural, intellectual, and political dynamism of African societies. At a time when Africa is often represented a place in need of outsiders' benevolence and direction, we hope to give students the linguistic and interpretive tools to study African societies on their own terms. The degree will provide an excellent foundation for those who wish to expand their knowledge of Africa, and particularly for students entering positions in the arts, the media, NGOs, and other professions. There are four elements comprising the MPhil course in African Studies:
In the second part of the course students will focus their attention on a research project. They will develop a topic in conversation with a supervisor, conduct research, and write intensely during Lent and Easter terms. Students will discuss their work regularly with a supervisor, and will present their research results in the core seminar. Throughout the year students will attend biweekly classes in Swahili language. Other African languages may be taught by arrangement. Students who complete the degree to a sufficient standard may apply for admission to doctoral programmes in History, Politics and International Studies, Divinity, English Literature, Anthropology, Geography or in another field. (The Centre of African Studies does not at present offer PhD training). Staff with expertise in African Studies supervise doctoral theses in all of the main disciplinary faculties of the university, and students can continue to work with the same supervisor who guided their MPhil work. Teaching for the MPhil course will be conducted by a group of fifteen lecturers and post-doctoral researchers connected with the Centre of African Studies. Further information on the staff involved in the teaching programme can be found elsewhere on this website. The Centre has very strong links with African universities, and each year it hosts a group of five Visiting Fellows from Africa, who come to Cambridge for six months of coordinated research. MPhil students will have many opportunities to interact with, and learn from, the African Visiting Fellows. The Centre's 35,000 volume library, newly housed in the Mond Building, offers rich resources; and MPhil students will in addition have access to the University Library, which holds more than eight million volumes. MPhil students will make particular use of the Library's extensive archival holdings: the Royal and Commonwealth Society's papers and photographs; the Churchill College archives; the British and Foreign Bible Society's papers; and other collections. MPhil students will be made members of one of Cambridge's thirty colleges, where they will be provided with accommodation and meals. Specific inquiries can be directed to the Centre, at afrenq@hermes.cam.ac.uk For information about eligibility for the course, click here For the MPhil course prospectus, click here For list of Supervisors, click here Useful links Board of Graduate Studies : www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/gradstud/admissions/index.shtml Funding and Financial Assistance : www.hist.cam.ac.uk/pgadmissions/funding/index.html The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Liverpool Associates in Tropical Health are delighted to announce that they will be running their highly acclaimed Short Course in International Health Consultancy from 10th – 28th May 2010. This is a postgraduate course aimed at those embarking on their consultancy careers as well as for those consultants seeking continuing professional development opportunities. We also have a limited number of places for those who are involved in consultancy management (criteria for acceptance will be judged on a case-by-case basis). The course aims to provide emerging national, regional and international consultants with an opportunity to enhance and improve their professional knowledge and skills in the provision and management of consultancy services within the context of international health and deliver work that is robust, evidence-based and grounded in the reality of resource-poor settings. We would greatly appreciate your cooperation in helping publicise this exciting course within your own networks both at home and overseas. For further information please visit: www.lath.com/Training-and-Events/55 Thanking you for your cooperation, Dr Vicki Doyle Dr Stewart Tyson Course Director Chief Executive Officer, LATH Switchboard: +44 (0)151 705 3773 Fax: +44 (0)151 705 3774 DFID’s White Paper, ‘Eliminating World Poverty: Building Our Common Future’, outlines DFID’s approach to working with civil society. It highlights the fact that DFID recognises that the work of governments alone will not be enough to eliminate world poverty and that to achieve further and faster poverty reduction, governments must work closely with citizens and civil society groups. The White Paper states that over the next few years DFID will increase its work with organisations in the UK and overseas who play an important role in development. This will include groups with who do not currently benefit from DFID support. Many of these groups are involved in supporting very small scale, often localised activities which do not meet the criteria we have for our existing centrally managed civil society funding schemes, such as the Partnership Programme Arrangements (PPA) and Civil Society Challenge Fund (CSCF). To address this, DFID is establishing a new funding stream aimed at community based organisations involved in providing specific small scale, one-off support that directly targets poverty in the developing world and includes a significant development awareness component in the UK. The Fund will be operational for an initial 16 months from 2010. The Fund is intended to offer funding opportunities to not for profit organisations but is not intended to replace or overlap with other DFID funding mechanisms. Details of the Fund and application process Key elements
The Development Innovation Fund can support a very broad range of projects as long as they target poverty in the developing world include a significant development awareness component in the UK Examples include: support to health camps, provision of text books, education/learning materials or other appropriate technology materials, skills exchange programmes. Process What is the application process? You must submit a completed application form together with the additional documentation requested in 2.2 (above) to the Fund Manager at dif@dfid.gov.uk. The Fund Manager will acknowledge receipt of your application and provide you with a unique reference number within 3 days of receipt. The Fund Manager will also inform you of which Funding Round your application will be considered under. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their applications within a week after the relevant funding round. If you have any questions about any aspect of these guidelines please e-mail dif@dfid.gov.uk Visit this link for any other information you may have and for the FAQs: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/dif Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh Annual International Conference ICT: Africa’s Revolutionary Tools for the 21st Century? 22nd-23rd April 2010 Call for Papers New information and communication technologies (ICTs) have taken Africa by storm. By far the highest uptake has been of mobile phones, and while rates of internet uptake in Africa have been slower, in many countries technologies that enable mobile internet access are now beginning to enter the mass market. New applications, and in some cases new devices, are also being introduced, at times in partnership between technology companies and development agencies. ICT seemingly embraces every aspect of the development spectrum, and has lead to increased academic interest in the Information and Communication Technology for Development, or ICTD/ICT4D discipline. At the same time, many Africans are using ICT – especially mobile phones – for less explicitly developmental, everyday communication that was otherwise impossible when landlines, the postal service or buses were the best options for communicating at a distance. Nowadays mobile phones are being used for more frequent communication, often over much shorter distances, and may prove to change interrelationships – not least between state and non-state actors – in unexpected ways. With this in mind, the Centre of African Studies is calling for papers that address the conference title, ‘ICT: Africa’s Revolutionary Tools for the 21st Century?’. Given the broad range of uses to which ICT are put, the conference organisers welcome papers that relate to the use or potential of ICT in influencing change in Africa. Papers may wish to address issues of access, adoption, or impact, and may be framed in any discipline. Topics might include, but need not be restricted to: health (including veterinary science), education/learning, livelihoods and socio-economic interaction, finance (including money transfer), culture, media, governance, or any other aspect of empowerment. Papers covering other topics will also be considered, and both theory-based and empirical papers covering any region or country in sub-Saharan Africa are welcome. The conference will take place at the University of Edinburgh’s new state-of-the-art School of Informatics building. Funding will be available for a limited number of individuals presenting papers, with priority given to presenters based in Africa. Presented papers will be considered for inclusion in a peer-reviewed journal special edition. Attendance is limited and the number of prospective self-funded attendees who are not presenting papers may be restricted. Those who are interested in presenting a paper should send an abstract of no more than 300 words to African.Studies@ed.ac.uk, placing ‘ICT’ in the subject heading. The abstract submission deadline is 12th February 2010 and applicants will be notified shortly after this date. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336 
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