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Applications are invited from suitably qualified individuals wishing to undertake PhD research in the Polar and Alpine Research Centre (PARC), Loughborough University, UK, commencing October 2011.

A list of potential PhD research topics are listed on our website:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/gy/postgraduates/phys-examples.html.

Alternatively, potential applicants are welcome to contact individual staff to discuss their own research ideas. Staff with cryospheric research interests include:
Dr Richard Hodgkins - monitoring and modelling the hydrology of glaciers and glacierised catchments
Dr David Graham - glacial sedimentary processes and products
Dr Jeff Evans - Quaternary marine geology and geophysics, glacial and glacially-influenced sedimentation, reconstruction of Quaternary ice-masses and their dynamics in high-latitude glaciated regions, past environmental and oceanographic change in Antarctica, Greenland and Polar North Atlantic Ocean.

Further information about these and other staff are available from the PARC website:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/gy/research/parc/.

The University is able to offer studentships for UK/EU students to support full time research degree programmes commencing in October 2011. Each studentship is valued at ?13,590 plus tuition fees at the UK/EU rate. Applicants must be eligible to pay tuition fees at UK/EU rates. Further information is available online:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/service/graduateschool/GraduateSchoolStudentshipScheme.htm.

The deadline for studentship applications is 7 March 2011.