The University of Central Lancashire International PhD Scholarship Search Engine

The Scholarship Search Engine is tenable for up to 3 years for a PhD (via MPhil route) [subject to satisfactory progress] and is open to international applicants only. UK/EU applicants are not eligible to apply. The scholarship will provide £15000 towards the cost of the International tuition fee over 3 years.
Obese people may adapt movement for various reasons, e.g. the increased loads through joints, relating to their weight and shape. The Scholarship Search Engine few studies of biomechanics in obese cohorts provide support for movement differences between obese and non-obese people, suggesting the obese have shorter and wider stride patterns and spend longer time in double stance. A Scholarship Search Engine gait study undertaken by the supervisors demonstrated that the normalised adduction moment at the knee was significantly lower in obese than in non-obese participants, suggesting that a change in moments may be a compensatory mechanism to reduce the relative knee joint loads and associated pain when walking. Some exercises may therefore increase the risk of musculoskeletal pain or injury in obese groups, potentially causing reduced exercise compliance.
Scholarship Search Engine Advances in movement capture techniques and biomechanical modelling allow assessment of all three body planes and a more complex multi-planar analysis of activities, providing potentially unique insights into functional limitations with differing anthropometry. However there are methodological difficulties in undertaking biomechanical measurements in obese people, including the identification of joint centres and soft tissue movement artefacts, which both have direct effects on kinematics. Scholarship Search Engine There are also largely unexplored issues relating to the statistical analysis of the resulting multi-dimensional data used to assess differences in movement patterns.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 May 2011

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Edward Gibbon Wakefield Doctoral Scholarship Search Engine

The Scholarship Search Engine is presented by Mrs. Priscilla Wakefield Mitchell Totnes, Devon, in memory of his great, great uncle Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his three brothers, all of which inspired the founding of the New Zealand doped. The award is also the memory of Mrs. Mitchell's grandfather, Charles Marcus Wakefield, who distinguished diarist, who was much of the early Canterbury, and finally the memory of his brother Roger Edward Wakefield surveyed dedicated in action killed in the Balkans war is the Commandos. Roger Wakefield graduated from Christ Church, Oxford.
Eligibility: PhD in History

Scholarship Search Engine Application deadline: 1 November 2011

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PhD Scholarship Search Engine Studentship in Workplace Learning

Scholarship Search Engine Socio-cultural perspectives on learning focused on the social, relational, and is carried out by individuals practitioners. Becoming a Manager, nurse, plumber, etc. Pilot is not simply a question of being "taught" in the formal sense: the identity development and participation in networks and communities of practice are also important. Although socio-cultural perspectives have permeated the academic research on learning in the last 15 years, much research is critical: assuming that communities are idyllic (Reynolds, 2000), but neglect the "dark side " of the communities (Lave & Wenger, 1991) that the newcomers' access to learning opportunities by ancestors for political, economic or otherwise blocked.
PhD Scholarship Search Engine applications are invited on the topic of learning in the workplace. The proposed thesis research, a number of directions such as (without limitation) the role of identity-learning development and the politics of learning through work and the nature of "participation". Research contexts, companies, public sector, non-profit or not-fo. "learning" could be any age from young students, older workers transition into new roles and opportunities.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 April 2011

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