date: Tue Feb 13 14:47:06 2001 from: Mike Hulme subject: Re: Highlighted Envsheet items to: "Gillian Watson" .... you could put a small piece in In Tyndall about it. Mike At 10:45 13/02/01 +0000, you wrote: Dear Mike, I followed up on the items you highlighted in EnvSheet 19... 1) The summer placements in Whitehall look very promising and I would recommend we try to pursue it. Applicants are asked to submit research proposals for a 2 month project over the summer designed to related to any area of Government Departmental policy - in our case something related to either DETR or MAFF (DTI are not involved) - or one of their existing research programmes. The grant is £10,000 for two months PLUS reasonable accommodation/travel expenses. Applicants have to commit to spending at least four weeks at the Department concerned. The application material does not look too arduous - a document containing a full description of the proposed research project and methodology, the project's relevance to policy formulation, a review of the current state-of-the-art in the topic area, a CV and the proposed dates. The deadline for applications to reach the Treasury is 26 March 2001. Note that the web URL given in Envsheet is wrong - it should be [1]http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/placements2001. 2) The Scottish Executive healthcare PhD studentships are only open to higher education institutions in Scotland - therefore none of the Tyndall Partners are eligible. Let me know if you want to pursue the Whitehall thing further. Gillie