Month: January 2022

The TFG Accelerate Scholarship offers successful applicants a grant of $1,000 to contribute towards academic studies in a certain number of disciplines related to international trade.

This will help improve your understanding of the complexities and structures of trade finance, and put you in good stead for a career in the international trade industry.

Our Accelerate Scholarship rewards excellence and originality, recognising new ideas with the potential to disrupt and innovate the international trade landscape.

More details on Accelerate Scholarship here

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This spring, we’re back on campus with our Web-based Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt.

Take part by accessing the game on your phone to find out more about PwC and be in with a chance to win some fantastic tech prizes or even a brand new electric car! 

Through our Scavenger Hunt and our Virtual Park, we want to show you how we do business. Purpose sits at the heart of our strategy and helping organisations improve their impact on the environment, and on society, to become more resilient, agile and sustainable is what we do best. 

Join a tech-connected community collaborating on some of the world’s most challenging issues. 

Find out more and play here

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Apply by 15 February 2022 for September 2022 entry

Are you interested in a funded four-year studentship in biomedical research including a one-year MSc course that would provide interdisciplinary training for your three-year PhD, along with two research projects?  Then the Warwick MRC DTP in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research may be the programme for you.   We are recruiting home and international students.

The following types of studentships are available:

Core                     

Students co-design two MSc projects and their PhD project with supervisors, in one of the following  research areas – Combating Infection, Molecular Basis of Human Disease and Precision Diagnostics and Data Analytics.

iCASE

Students apply for a specific industry project, are supervised by an academic and an industry supervisor, and spend at least three months based with an industry partner.

Translational Medicine

Students apply for a specific project and have supervisors from both Warwick and the Institute of Precision Diagnostics and Translational Medicine, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust.

Key features of the programme

• Interdisciplinary MSc training year, followed by a three-year PhD.
• Open to students from all science backgrounds.
• Fully funded programme, including fees, stipend, consumables, and personal conference allowance. 
• Friendly and vibrant interdisciplinary MRC DTP community, with regular DTP events such as visiting speaker seminars, skills workshops, and student conferences.

We are constantly working to create a supportive and inclusive environment to help students achieve their best potential, through promoting equality and challenging discrimination.  We welcome and encourage applications from all students, especially those from groups under-represented in academia.  For 2022 entry we have ring-fenced two studentships, one each for a Black British student and a student from a widening participation background.

Find out more

Please visit our website to find out more and also meet some of our students and staff.  We are also holding an online information session at 11:00 on Monday 7 February and you can sign up here.

If you have any questions about this programme, please email mrcdtp@warwick.ac.uk.  We’ll be very happy to help.

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Hack the Globe is not a traditional hackathon…

Traditional hackathons attract engineering & computer science students to spend 48 hours on complex technical prototypes that often don’t adequately consider the social, political, and economic dimensions of the problems they attempt to fix.

We challenge all students to tackle humanity’s most pressing problems by adopting a multidisciplinary mindset and focusing on sustainable outcomes. Over a two week period, Hack the Globe brings together the brightest and most passionate students from across the globe to change the way they see the world in order to create innovative solutions that apply classroom learnings to real-world applications.

Find more here.

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Brandstorm is a worldwide innovation competition by L ‘Oreal open to everyone up to 30 Y.O. For the 30th Anniversary of the competition you will have 3 tracks to choose from in addition to a full learning path on Trailhead by Salesforce. Get the opportunity to be mentored by L’Oréal business experts, stay in touch with recruiters, and win the Intrapreneurship missions.

More information and registration here.

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We are now welcoming submissions for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) research fund. The purpose of the research grant is to support academic research into economic measurement.​ We intend to encourage and support scholars in the early stages of their academic career, so applications are invited from postdoctoral academics working in UK universities.​​

We will support applications for funding of up to £5,000 to enable research that supports the research areas below: ​

• Measuring the labour share of income, including consistency through time ​
• Measuring accounting prices, in line with Dasgupta’s review of the Economics of Biodiversity ​
• Evaluating the productivity story in different industries following revisions introduced in Blue Book 2021 (including double deflation) 

Deadline for submissions is 31 March 2022, and the successful bid will be announced the week beginning 4 April 2022.​​

For more information on the research fund including eligibility, can be found via the ONS website.

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We are now welcoming individual of group submissions for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Renaissance Prize. This competition was launched to encourage and celebrate the development of economic thought and argument, using a statistical evidence base, among UK undergraduates. 

This economics prize, challenges applicants to reflect on the improved measurement of the modern economy. This competition is open to undergraduate students within ONS and across all UK universities. 

The winning candidate will receive a prize worth £1000, presence at the ESCoE conference 2022, publication of their entry on the ONS website and a question time session with a Deputy Chief Economist about what life is like at ONS and opportunity to discuss career paths. 

There will also be two runners up prizes worth £250. You will also have your essay published on the ONS website and a question time session with a Deputy Chief Economist.

To enter, applicants will need to submit an essay of up to 2,500 words on the following: 

Should measures of the nation’s capital stock be expanded to include types of assets that are currently excluded, and if so, what measurement changes are needed?

Deadline for submissions is Monday 25 April 2022.

More information on the renaissance prize and how to enter, can be found via the ONS website.

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The targetjobs Undergraduate of the Year Awards is an annual competition aimed at finding the best undergraduates in the UK. Each award is partnered by a prominent graduate recruiter who provides a fantastic prize for the winner, including a paid internship, trips abroad and other exclusive opportunities.

Find the right award for you

We have ten awards on offer and you can only apply for one, so narrow down and choose the right award for you. Select your year and area of study to see what options are available to you.

Find them and apply here.

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There are just 3 weeks left to apply to the G-Research  PhD prize – applications are open for PhD students to be in with a chance of winning up to £10,000 in prize money!

The prize is open to all final or penultimate dPhil candidates working in areas including but not limited to:

–          Quant Finance

–          Mathematics

–          Computer Science

–          Statistics

–          Physics

–          Engineering

–          Machine Learning.

To enter, eligible students simply need to submit an electronic chapter or excerpt of their draft dissertation (max 50 pages) to sophie.allisett@gresearch.co.uk. Any questions about the prize should also be sent this this address. For more details, including what the cover letter should contain can be found in the attached poster.

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The P&G CEO Challenge is a competition which will test your aptitude for business strategy and real-life problem-solving. If you’ve been eager to demonstrate your ingenuity and intelligence beyond your campus, this is the chance to make an impression on a global scale

Prepare to compete with teams from around the world to see who is most fit to be the next CEO of P&G. Top students will ascend to the Global Final and win the opportunity to meet P&G CEO Jon Moeller. First, prepare to showcase your ability to think critically about leading a brand.

Find out more and apply here.

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