Studentships
There are Research Studentships in KMi for highly motivated researchers interested in pursuing a Full-time 3 year doctorate under supervision. KMi sees PhD students as critical to its mission, and awards Studentships (£12,978/year tax free for 2008/09), with no additional fees, compulsory examinations or teaching required. Participation is required in CRC PhD events and thesis milestones, as specified in the KMi Research Degrees policy. Additional training courses to develop your generic research skills are run across the OU, attendance at which is agreed with your supervisor.
We tend to give preference to candidates who have been KMi interns, or with whom we have worked in some capacity (e.g. doing your Undergraduate or Masters project with KMi). So check out the opportunities for Visitors and Research Trainee positions.
Application Deadline
Applications are currently being sought for the following PhD projects.The deadline for application is 7th June 2012
How to Apply
Refer to the online prospectus at http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/ and download and complete the 10-page MPhil/PhD application form.It is strongly recommended that applicants contact the named contact point for the project of interest to get more information about the project in question.
Applications should be sent by email to Miss Ortenz Rose, including a covering letter, a research proposal (a maximum of 2,000 words) and a full CV, giving contact details for two academic referees.
Your PhD Proposal
Narrative Hypermedia
Knowledge Management
Social Software
New Media Systems
Semantic Web and Knowledge Services
Multimedia and Information Systems
Key Information Links
Open University Research School:
Open University info:
PhD Admissions Coordinator: Dr Paul Muholland - feel free to contact for advice about doing a PhD in KMi (email, telephone +44 (0)1908 654506).
General information: Ms Ortenz Rose, KMi Office (email, telephone +44 (0) 1908 654774, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK).
Future Internet
KnowledgeManagementMultimedia &
Information SystemsNarrative
HypermediaNew Media SystemsSemantic Web &
Knowledge ServicesSocial Software
Future Internet is...
With over a billion users, today's Internet is arguably the most successful human artifact ever created. The Internet's physical infrastructure, software, and content now play an integral part of the lives of everyone on the planet, whether they interact with it directly or not. Now nearing its fifth decade, the Internet has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility in the face of ever increasing numbers of users, data volume, and changing usage patterns, but faces growing challenges in meetings the needs of our knowledge society. Globally, many major initiatives are underway to address the need for more scientific research, physical infrastructure investment, better education, and better utilisation of the Internet. Within Japan, USA and Europe major new initiatives have begun in the area.
To succeed the Future Internet will need to address a number of cross-cutting challenges including:
- Scalability in the face of peer-to-peer traffic, decentralisation, and increased openness
- Trust when government, medical, financial, personal data are increasingly trusted to the cloud, and middleware will increasingly use dynamic service selection
- Interoperability of semantic data and metadata, and of services which will be dynamically orchestrated
- Pervasive usability for users of mobile devices, different languages, cultures and physical abilities
- Mobility for users who expect a seamless experience across spaces, devices, and velocities
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