PhD Research Scholarships, NUS

PhD Research Scholarships, NUS

The Asia Research Institute is pleased to offer Ph.D. research scholarships from
August 2008 in the following interdisciplinary areas:
- ASIAN MIGRATION

- RELIGION & GLOBALISATION IN ASIAN CONTEXTS

- CULTURAL STUDIES IN ASIA

- COLD WAR IN ASIA

- SUMATRA HERITAGE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND RECONSTRUCTION


The PhD scholarship is to be taken up jointly with the appropriate
discipline-based department. This would normally be with a department of the
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, but where appropriate could also be with
the Faculty of Law, School of Business or School of Design & Environment at the
National University of Singapore.

Interested applicants are required to submit their application to ARI at the
address stated below by 15th November 2007, indicating clearly both which ARI
interdisciplinary area they wish to join and which department they would be
attached to. Application procedures and forms can be obtained from the NUS
website via this URL:
http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/edu/gd-applnresfeeform.html

Applicants must use the application forms in the respective Faculty websites
depending on the Faculty to which they wish to seek admission. They should send
their applications to ARI directly.

The following interdisciplinary areas or "clusters" are offering scholarships:
1) The Migration Cluster (Research Leader: Professor Brenda Yeoh) explores the
issues arising from increased levels of human mobility in the region, both
within and across national borders. Mobility of high-level professional and
managerial personnel, labour migration, both documented and undocumented, and
human trafficking all raise theoretical and methodological questions and major
policy issues, as does the role of migration in urban change.

2) The Religion and Globalisation Cluster (Research Leader: Professor Bryan
Turner) explores the changing patterns of religious practice, belief and
identity in recent times, particularly in Southeast Asia, China and South Asia.
The title implies a particular interest in transnational and diasporic
interactions, the engagement with modern technologies and values, and new global
or ‘glocal’ forms of identity.

3) The Cultural Studies Cluster (Research Leader: Professor Chua Beng Huat)
consciously challenges disciplinary boundaries to address new topics, issues and
concerns thrown up by the rapid globalization of contemporary cultures. ARI is
interested in new understandings of the everyday life cultural practices of
contemporary Asia, as in adaptations of older patterns in literature, and the
performing and graphic arts, in rapidly changing contemporary conditions.

4) The Southeast Asia-China Interactions Cluster (Research Leader: Professor
Anthony Reid) will welcome students in two project areas: The Cold War in Asia,
relating particularly to relations between the two Chinas (CCP and KMT) and the
parties, movements and governments of Southeast Asia; and issues of heritage
recovery and archaeology in Aceh and Sumatra more generally.

ARI is a university-level institute formed in July 2001 as one of the strategic
initiatives of the NUS. The mission of the Institute is to produce and promote
world-class research on Asia. ARI engages the social sciences and humanities
broadly defined, and encourages especially multidisciplinary studies. Now home
to six research clusters with a strong team of resident and visiting scholars,
ARI works closely with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of
Business, Faculty of Law, and School of Design and Environment in NUS.

c/o Ms Kristy Won
Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore
469A Tower Block, Bukit Timah Road, #10-01, Singapore 259770
Fax: (65) 6779 1428