FBA Studentship (match funding)

Applications are usually in the form of:

• Description of the research proposal – indicating the
  relationship to any previous or concurrent research by the supervisor(s)
  and describing the training and research environment that will be
  available to the student (maximum two sides of A4).
• CV of the intended supervisor(s) – including details of
  research funding and publications over the period 2001 – 2007 and of
  the career record of research student supervision.
• Evidence that match funding has been secured.
  

Terms &Conditions

The FBA award will be based upon the home fee and PhD studentship rates paid by UK Research Councils in the year commencing funding. A maximum of £10,000 per year will be paid for three consecutive years. The award will only be made to a supervisor based in an institution that awards higher degrees. Requests for expenses other than grants and fees will be considered, but must be justified in the proposal. Preference will be given to applications from FBA members and for work that uses FBA research facilities and/or exploits the historic databases or material, but studentships may also be based at the researcher’s location.

The FBA is a registered charity and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community. This studentship will be open to any suitably qualified candidate from any part of the world, but the FBA is unable to cover overseas fees.

Applications should be submitted in paper to:
The Director, The Freshwater Biological Association,
The Ferry Landing, Far Sawrey, Ambleside, Cumbria,
LA22 0LP, UK
or in electronic form to: info@fba.org.uk

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Past Recipients

• Brian Rippey (University of Ulster), Stephen Maberly and Ian Jones (CEH Lancaster) for a project entitled ‘Controls and consequences of oxygen depletion in lakes’. The student will study the interacting effects of climate change in some of the Lake District waters. The project will also evaluate some of the consequences of oxygen depletion on the habitat available for fish and on phosphorus release from sediments.
• Martyn Lucas and Rus Hoelzel (University of Durham) for a project entitled ‘Behavioural and evolutionary ecology of lampreys – jawless archetypes in a 21st century landscapes’. In this work, population genetics of Lampetra fluviatilis and Lampetra planeri will be investigated in different catchments and sub-catchments in the UK. The influence of environmental conditions and pheromone releases on migrations of lampreys will be examined in order to understand better the drivers of lamprey life-cycles, with a view to providing better information for their conservation management.

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