This 3 year full-time PhD studentship
is offered with a start date of January 2013 or as soon as possible
thereafter. The successful candidate will receive an annual stipend of
£13,590 and a fee-waiver for those eligible for Home/EU fees (2011/12
rates).
This studentship will be co-supervised at Strathclyde University
between the School of Law and School of Business. The research topic
forms part of the work programme of a large four-year £8m Centre,
CREATe, the Centre for Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise and
Technology, which is a consortium consisting of the Universities of
Glasgow, Strathclyde, Edinburgh, Nottingham, St Andrews UEA and
Goldsmiths, alongside over 80 industry and public sector arts partners.
The studentship will be co-supervised by Professor Lilian Edwards (Law)
and Dr Stephen Tagg (Business). Profesor Edwards is also Deputy
Director of CREATe, whose lead institution is Glasgow. It is expected
the successful candidate will be given opportunities to interact with
the rest of the CREATe team and its activities. The student will have
access to facilities in both Faculties and be based physically at
Strathclyde.
The project to which the studentship is attached is shared between
Strathclyde and the Horizon Digital Economy Hub at Nottingham, and
deals with the legal, technical and social issues around data mining
and the cultural industries. Data mining allows new data to be extracted
from old by automated means, ie, from existing large sets of texts or
data. Examples include mining existing databases to create profiles
about data subjects for use in targeted advertising; police use of
data-mining of social networks for law enforcement and surveillance; and
research use of datasets, eg, comparing incidences of words in variant
texts of Shakespeare plays, or looking for new drugs by analysing
existing papers on drug formulae. The recent Hargreaves report on
copyright reform recommended a limited new exception to copyright for
data mining, but this is opposed by industry players such as the
publishers’ association. The PhD candidate recruited will be expected to
work on the copyright and other legal as well as business and cultural
implications of data mining.
Applicants can come from any relevant background including science,
technology, law or business, but a basic understanding of and interest
in intellectual property law is desirable. Candidates should have at
least a good 2:1 Honours first degree in relevant discipline and a relevant Masters is
desirable though not essential.
Deadline for receipt of completed applications: Monday 17th December 2012.
Please send covering letter explaining why you want to do this PhD, cv including full academic qualifications, and indicate two referees, at least one academic.
Informal enquires: Please contact Professor Lilian Edwards (lilian.edwards@strath.ac.uk )
For further project details and information on how to apply please contact:
Patricia Bunce, Graduate School Manager, Faculty of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Room LH128, Lord Hope building, 141 St. James Road,
Glasgow
G4 OLT
Email: patricia.bunce@strath.ac.uk. Tel: +44 (0)141 444 8452
