Applications for recruitment are now open for the 2015-16 competition. The Professor Sir Richard Trainor Scholarship scheme has been developed in response to an anonymous donation in acknowledgement of the Principal who left the College in 2014 after ten years, and will fund up to 31 PhD scholarships over a 3 year period. For the academic year 2015-16, one scholarship each has been made available to each of the following twelve projects. For more details about each project, please click on the project title link. Project Title Lead Project supervisor Department Settlement and connectivity in the English Channel: the Isle of Wight and its setting in the Iron Age and Roman periods John Pearce Classics Royal Shakespeares: Responses to the National Playwright in the Royal Collections, 1714-1901 Gordon McMullan English Ecologies of Artists’ Moving Image Practice in the United Kingdom, 1966–2016 Erika Balsom Film Studies Curating, collecting and the construction of zoological knowledge: The work of Walter Rothschild, c1878-1937 Abigail Woods History HM Treasury under Alistair Darling MP: 2007 - 2010 Richard Roberts ICBH / Policy Institute Building the Smart City: Managing the interface between urban governance and big data Federico Caprotti Geography A Ban on Ransom Payments? Political Ambitions, Commercial Stakeholder: Interests and Human Rights Anja Shortland Political Economy / Law Drones for Development? Evaluating the technical, economic, political and cultural contexts affecting the potential for UAV adoption in less-developed and less-connected regions - tbc Jonathan Reades Geography DATA-BRAKE Matthew Howard Informatics Tracing provenance in the global food system Simon Miles Informatics / Geography Sustainable broadcast-based content-delivery architecture for high-bandwidth connectivity in rural India Nishanth Sastry Informatics Integrating semantic technologies with electronic health records to enhance the detection of adverse drug events in mental healthcare Robert Stewart Psychological Medicine / Biostatistics Student Eligibility Prospective students who wish to undertake a full-time MPhil/PhD programme with one of the above advertised projects commencing in 2015-16 are eligible to apply Current MPhil/PhD students are NOT eligible to apply These scholarships are open to home, EU and international students who can demonstrate academic excellence and research potential If selected, the scholarship will be offered subject to you being offered a place on the PhD programme and meeting the relevant programme entry requirements. Deadline for applications: 12pm (UK BST) 1 May 2015 Applicants must complete and submit as a minimum* a CV and personal statement identifying which project they would like to be considered for explaining why they would be suitable,to gsfunding@kcl.ac.uk by 12pm (UK BST) on 1 May 2015. The subject line of the email should read RT Scholarship 1516. Two academic references must be received by the deadline for the application to be eligible. Candidates are responsible for instructing referees to submit their references to gsfunding@kcl.ac.uk using the subject line RT Scholarship 1516. * for certain projects, applicants will be required to submit additional documentation. Please refer to the individual project outlines attached to the projects above. For some projects, short-listed candidates will be invited for interview, again for details of which projects this relates please refer to the individual project outlines attached above. Successful applicants, if not already done so, will then be invited to apply formally to the PhD programme at King's via: https://apply.kcl.ac.uk/. Acceptance to the scholarship will be conditional upon receiving a formal offer from King’s, and meeting any conditions of that offer. Application Deadline : 1 May 2015