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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>A</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>pplications are invited for an Economic and Social Research Council Collaborative PHD scholarship in Leeds University Business School UK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Research topic and supervision<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The focus of the work will be on the interplay between new organisational models for response to climate change and emerging new technologies. The topic has been developed in collaboration with a <span style='background:white'>multinational telecommunications services company</span> and will have the support of staff within their Global Research and Development Headquarters. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>More information about the project is available by contacting Professor David Allen at <a href="mailto:d.allen@lubls.leeds.ac.uk"><span style='color:windowtext'>d.allen@lubls.leeds.ac.uk</span></a> or Dr Andrew Brown at <u><a href="mailto:a.brown@lubs.leeds.ac.uk"><span style='color:windowtext'>a.brown@lubs.leeds.ac.uk</span></a></u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>The Research Environment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The student will be located in the AIMTech Research Centre in Leeds University Business School (<a href="http://lubswww.leeds.ac.uk/aimtech/about-aimtech/"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://lubswww.leeds.ac.uk/aimtech/about-aimtech/</span></a>) and associated with the Leeds Campus ibuild Research Centre (<a href="http://research.ncl.ac.uk/ibuild/ibuildteam/"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://research.ncl.ac.uk/ibuild/ibuildteam/</span></a>). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpLast style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Leeds University Business School has entered the top ten business and management research institutions in the UK, according to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The Business School has been ranked 9th in the UK for the quality of its research following the national review process, achieving a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.18 (our of a possible total score of 4).<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The Business School was also ranked 9th in the UK according to ‘research power’ – a measure of the volume and the quality of the research. Some 82% of research submitted by the Business School to the REF 2014 was judged by experts to be either 'world leading' (4*) or 'internationally excellent' (3*).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpLast style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>AIMTech (Adaptation Information Management and Technology) is a Research Centre within the Leeds University Business School. The group’s work is focused on the inter-relationship between new technologies, information management and organisational change. The main academic research areas within AIMTech are information behaviour and practices, information systems innovation, evaluation of information systems and the design of information services and systems. A prominent component of AIMTech’s activities is the on-going transfer of knowledge to both the public and the private sectors. Work within the group is informed by Activity Theory which forms the theoretical bedrock for most of their projects. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst style='line-height:14.3pt;background:#FEFEFF;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>i-BUILD</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> is funded by a £3.5 million grant from the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). The programme also benefits from £1.8 million of support from university partners, industry and government departments and agencies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='line-height:14.3pt;background:#FEFEFF;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>ýi-BUILD</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> is a consortium of three of the UK's leading Universities:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:1.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.3pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#FEFEFF;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Newcastle University (Headquarters)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:1.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.3pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#FEFEFF;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>University of Leeds<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='mso-margin-top-alt:1.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:18.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.3pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#FEFEFF;vertical-align:baseline'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>o<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>University of Birmingham<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpLast style='mso-margin-top-alt:9.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:14.3pt;background:#FEFEFF;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Each University has a world-leading track records in engineering, economics and social sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Funding<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.esrc.ac.uk/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>The Economic & Social Research Council</span></a> is the main provider of postgraduate awards in the areas of economic and social sciences. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white'>UK applicants will be eligible for a full award (paying fees and maintenance at standard Research Council rates). EU applicants are normally eligible for a fees only award, unless they have been resident in the UK for 3 years immediately preceding the date of the award.</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Application Criteria<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:13.5pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Applicants must hold a First Degree at undergraduate level equivalent to at least a UK Upper Second Class Honours Degree.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Applicants must meet the Business School’s minimum English Language entry requirements.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpFirst style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Application Procedure<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormalCxSpMiddle><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Further information can be found here: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rsa/postgraduate_scholarships/ESRCWRDTCCollabProjectForm-AllenD-2049"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rsa/postgraduate_scholarships/ESRCWRDTCCollabProjectForm-AllenD-2049</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Professor David Allen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Leeds University Business School<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Maurice Keyworth Building, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>University of Leeds, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Moorland Rd, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Leeds, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>West Yorkshire <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222222;background:white;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>LS6 1AN</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>