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London Metropolitan University: Vice Chancellor's PhD Scholarships

30 full-time Stipendiary PhD Scholarships (fees plus cost-of-living stipend of ฃ13,290 p.a.) are available to Home/EU students in the following academic Faculties, Departments and Research Institutes:

Department of Applied Social Sciences
Cities Institute
Faculty of Computing
Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Languages and Education
Institute for Health Research and Policy
Department of Law, Governance and International Relations
London Metropolitan Business School

Stipendiary scholarships are available in specified research topics and areas as listed in the Scholarship Guidance Notes found at the link below.
A number of full-time Fees-only PhD Scholarships are also available to Home/EU and Overseas students in any subject area in which the University can provide supervisory expertise.

For further information on research at London Met in all our Departments and Research Institutes please see our Research Brochure below.
The closing dates for applications are 1 October 2009 (first call) and 1 November 2009 (second call). You are strongly advised to apply as early as possible. http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research/the-graduate-school/vice-chancellors-phd-scholarships.cfm

One Research Area/Research Topic of note is: area of research

Economic globalisation - Global inequality and the global financial crisis

Description: Although economic globalization has brought unprecedented opportunities for
material growth, it has also generated an unprecedented degree of
inequality. Following the outbreak of the global financial crisis, a number of
commentators have put the view that global economic inequality played a
direct role in causing the crisis. So far, however, this view has failed to
command much attention in the academic community because the arguments
advanced in support of it continue to be centrally focussed on income
inequalities and the constraints these impose on corporate profitability. The
research project to be supervised by Photis Lysandrou, Professor of Global
Political Economy, is to focus attention instead on wealth inequalities and on
the problems they pose for the world's securities markets. The two principal
objectives of the project are, firstly, to explain how wealth inequalities were
a direct source of the pressures on the financial system to create the toxic
securities that were at the epicentre of the crisis and, secondly, to provide
empirical evidence to substantiate this unorthodox explanation. The
successful candidate should have a strong background in economics or
business economics and be proficient in quantitative methods.

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Weblinks: www.londonmet.ac.uk/lmbs/research