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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Department
of Computing and Communication Technologies</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">3 year
full-time funded PhD Scholarship</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">3 years full-time fees will be paid by the University.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Bursary: £10,500 pa (without inflation increase).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Start date: April 2016</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Eligibility: Home/EU and International students</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Deadline:
14 December 2015</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Interview
date: </span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Interviews
will be held in week beginning 11 January 2016<b></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;letter-spacing:-0.1pt">The Department of Computing and
Communication Technologies at Oxford Brookes University is pleased to offer a
three year full-time PhD Scholarship to a new student commencing in April of
2016 The successful applicant will receive an annual bursary of £10,500 for
three years (with no inflation increase) with fees paid by the University.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">Topic of Research:<b> Adaptive
Technology for Healthcare</b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">The topic of this Phd is the development of
ontologies for healthcare that capture diverse protocols, terminologies and
standards. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">The vocabulary associated with any branch of medicine is huge,
including symptoms, scientific names and medication for example. The problem of
managing such vast, growing terminologies in medicine is a core challenge for
medical informatics. One way to address this problem is to translate the
meaning of the terms into a language that can be processed by a computer, i.e.
an ontology. The W3C standard language for ontology development is OWL 2, and
important medical standards (e.g. Snomed CT, NCI Thesaurus) have been ported to
OWL. This research will include the development and verification of an ontology
that can be used for any medical application and that is compatible with such
established standards. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">An application of the result will be to facilitate </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;letter-spacing:-0.15pt">interoperability
in exchanging medical information between computerized health systems. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">We are looking for enthusiastic candidates with:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">a solid background in Computer Science, evidenced by a good BSc: 2.1 or
above and/or an MSc degree;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">a solid background in Mathematics; knowledge of software engineering
methods; </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">an appreciation of empirical techniques;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:39pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">good communication and collaboration skills.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">To request an application pack from Mrs Anna
Guarnieri, email </span><a href="mailto:tdestudentships@brookes.ac.uk"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:windowtext">tdestudentships@brookes.ac.uk</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria">, quoting <b>Adaptive Technology for Healthcare</b> in
the subject line. Fully completed
applications must be sent to </span><a href="mailto:tdestudentships@brookes.ac.uk"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria;color:windowtext">tdestudentships@brookes.ac.uk</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Cambria"> - by <b>Midday on Monday 14<sup>th</sup> December
2015.</b>If you have any queries about the project, please contact: Clare
Martin <a href="mailto:cemartin@brookes.ac.uk">cemartin@brookes.ac.uk</a></span></p>
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