Scholarships and funded doctorates are available in small a number of conservation related areas, in Scotland and Europe, with closing dates in the new year, while anyone interested in such opportunities is encouraged to keep up to date through the IHBC’s web resource and twitter feeds.
Dr Alan M Forster, Lecturer in building conservation and construction Technology at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh, writes:
We are advertising 2 funded conservation (low carbon design) PhD’s within Heriot-Watt’s School of the Built Environment, Royal Academy of Engineering Centre of Excellence.
If you can think of any suitable candidates that may wish to apply then please send them the link.
The closing date for applications is 28 February 2014.
One relates to lime mortars (low carbon alternative binders), and the other historic glass.
For more detail see: LINK
Paulo B. Lourenco, Course Coordinator and Editor of the International Journal of Architectural Heritage: Conservation, Analysis, and Restoration, writes:
Applications for the Advanced Masters in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions, approved and financially sponsored by the European Commission within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus Programme, are opened up to January 20, 2014.
This Master Course is organized by a Consortium of leading European Universities/Research Institutions in the field, composed by University of Minho (coordinating institution, Portugal), the Technical University of Catalonia (Spain), the Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic), the University of Padua (Italy) and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic). The course combines the most recent advances in research and development with practical applications.
A significant number of scholarships, ranging from 4000 to 24000 Euro, are available to students of any nationality.
The Consortium is also available to provide Erasmus Mundus International Fellowships to outstanding non-European scholars for teaching and research activities for a period of up to three months.
The SAHC leaflet can be downloaded at: LINK
Please find full details on the MSc programme, as well as electronic application procedure, on the website at: www.msc-sahc.org
Keep up to date on opportunities using the IHBC’s free service at: LINK
Follow conservation opportunities and developments for free using the IHBC’s twitter feed see @IHBCtweet
