Researchship

I think, personally, that the greatest inducement to keep people in the field would be to set up a life researchship, very much like the judiciary is in this country, setting a minimal age at, perhaps, 35, and selecting, even if it is only a few individuals, people who have demonstrated their research ability and are rewarded by this with a fairly substantial income in the perhaps $20,000 to $25,000 bracket, with the freedom to do the research that they feel is important, […]

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Each year the Cultural Learning Institute offers a limited number of senior fellowships and visiting researchships to advanced scholars who come to the Center to conduct research and develop programs within the four project areas of the Institute.

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As a 1986 civil engineering master's graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I was privileged to spend the past 12 months on a researchship in Japan where I worked with one of the "Big-5" Japanese general contractors – Ohbayashi Corporation. During the researchship, considerable time was spent both in the R&D [research and development] laboratory and field where various construction robots were being developed and extensively used.

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Since most doctoral courses accept applications on an ongoing basis throughout the year, there are no application deadlines as such. However, where enrolment is timed with scholarship or funding applications, or where the Ph.D. is offered as part of a research council researchship, deadlines may well exist.

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