[TYPES/announce] Doctoral Teaching Assistantships in CS at Oxford

[Jeremy Gibbons]

DOCTORAL TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROGRAMME
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

The University of Oxford's Computer Science department is offering two DPhil (PhD) scholarships. The scholarships are for up to five years; they include teaching responsibilities on the department's Software Engineering Programme (SEP), which has been running for over twenty years, offering part-time professional Master's degrees in Software Engineering and in Software & Systems Security. Each scholarship provides a stipend (£14057 pa from October 2015, with small annual increases subsequently) plus full fees.

The Department of Computer Science was established in 1957, making it one of the longest established in the country. It is one of the UK's leading computer science departments, ranked first in a number of international rankings. The latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) resulted in the 74 members of the Department having 87% of their research activity ranked 4* ("world-leading") or 3* (internationally excellent"). Successful applicants will perform their research within the department, with the aim of obtaining a DPhil in Computer Science. Applications are particularly sought from students with research interests in core areas taught in SEP:

* software engineering
* programming languages
* systems security
* embedded and mobile systems
* formal modelling techniques
* semantic technologies
* automated verification

More information about the department's research in these areas may be found at http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/research/.

The scholarships have a teaching component, in line with the five-year duration. This will involve acting as a Teaching Assistant (TA) and second marker for six one-week SEP modules per year. First-hand professional experience of software engineering or systems security is therefore desirable, albeit not essential. Class sizes are small, with at most students 20 per module. More information about the modules may be found at http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/softeng/courses/subjects.html. 

Applications should include a full CV, a description of past teaching experience in relation to core SEP modules, the names of two referees, and a one- to two-page presentation of the candidate's research interests and proposed DPhil topic. They should be sent by email, to tadphil at softeng.ox.ac.uk, to arrive no later than noon on Friday 17th April. Applicants should also arrange for their referees to send references to the same address by the same date. Selection will be on the basis of both fit to the teaching programme and suitability of the proposed research topic. We plan to hold interviews (possibly by Skype) during the week of 20th to 24th April.

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact us on tadphil at softeng.ox.ac.uk.

Jeremy.Gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk
Oxford University Department of Computer Science,
Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK.
+44 1865 283521
http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jeremy.gibbons/



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