UTS Doctoral Scholarship.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the University of Technology Sydney announces a doctoral scholarship for the ARC Discovery research project Optimising teaching and learning with mobile-intensive pedagogies. The overall purpose of the project is to examine the factors that promote or inhibit quality teaching and learning with mobile technologies in secondary school maths and science. The candidate will be part of multidisciplinary group of six researchers exploring these issues in Australia, with three researchers investigating the educational aspects, one exploring the decision making processes, one exploring multimodal aspects and one investigating mobile user experiences. The successful candidate will work on a discrete but related project and will also contribute to the research project as a whole.
The research project will be supervised by one of the Education researchers and the scholarship administered by the University of Technology Sydney. The scholarship is for three years.
As well as writing a PhD dissertation, the successful candidate is expected to participate in the project meetings, workshops and conferences, contribute an article to at least one of the joint project publications and write occasional op-ed length articles for our planned project website.
Applicants for the scholarship must also apply to be admitted to the FASS PhD program at UTS and participate in the FASS doctoral program once admitted.
For more information about the research project, please contact Professor Sandra Schuck at
[email protected].
Value and Duration
The successful candidate will be awarded $25,406 per annum over 3 years.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the scholarship, an applicant must:
Have completed a Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours or Second Class Honours (Division 1), or be regarded by the University as having an equivalent level of attainment;
Enrol and be accepted for a higher degree by research in 2015
Be enrolled as a full-time student for the duration of the scholarship
Selection Criteria
Academic merit in previous undergraduate and/or postgraduate study
Quality of proposal
Research experience and/or potential in an area relevant to the ARC project
Demonstrate ability to work as part of a team
Experience in working in schools as a teacher
Desirable: statistical skills
Applications
Applicants should explain, in a short covering letter, what attracts them to this project, why their background is appropriate, their experience working in a team and include a research proposal of max 2000 words, relevant to the project. This can investigate the following research question or a related one: How do mobile intensive pedagogies interact with school student epistemologies?
Please send this application to Professor Sandy Schuck at
[email protected].
If the team believes that you are a suitable candidate, you will be asked to apply to
be admitted to the PhD degree at UTS as per the instructions at http://www.uts.edu.au/research-and-teaching/future-researchers/research-degrees-uts/applying-research-degree-and-scholarship.
Applications will be open from 16 February 2015 – 16 March 2015.
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