{"id":4492,"date":"2016-07-12T09:48:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T08:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/tizard-news-events\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2016-07-12T09:48:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T08:48:28","slug":"bursary-opportunity-pg-study-at-the-tizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/07\/12\/bursary-opportunity-pg-study-at-the-tizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bursary opportunity &#8211; PG study at the Tizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that Rescon Technologies, a UK company focused on helping people lead healthier lives has agreed to offer a bursary\u00a0(up to 20%* of home\/EU tuition fees plus \u00a3200 towards dissertation expenses) to a student who is studying or a Master\u2019s programme at the Tizard Centre.\u00a0 \u00a0The bursary will contribute to a student evaluating Rescon\u2019s Lincus app for use in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Lincus (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lincus.eu\">www.lincus.eu<\/a>) is already being used across the UK by organisations for the self and shared care of people with learning disabilities,\u00a0multiple and complex needs, diabetes and high blood pressure. \u00a0It has been developed through a combination of academic research and coproduction with end users however has never been evaluated.<\/p>\n<p>This is an exciting opportunity for some original research that involves working on a real world application of technology to support those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Criteria<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Applicants will already have been offered a place on a Master\u2019s programme or be in the process of interviews.<\/li>\n<li>The bursary will\u00a0<strong>cover up to 20%* of home\/EU tuition fees<\/strong>\u00a0for any of the Master\u2019s programmes at the Tizard Centre, to be completed on either a part-time or full-time basis.\u00a0 It will also include an additional \u00a3200 towards dissertation expenses.<\/li>\n<li>In return, the award winner will complete their\u00a0<strong>dissertation on evaluating use the Lincus app\u00a0with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To apply:<br \/>\nWrite a\u00a0<strong>one page account<\/strong>\u00a0describing:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a)Why is it important to give people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to communicate what they think about their health and wellbeing?<\/li>\n<li>b)How do you think you might approach evaluating the health and wellbeing app with this group of individuals?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Email your one page account, with a covering email to: Dr Jill Bradshaw\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:J.Bradshaw@kent.ac.uk\">J.Bradshaw@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Deadline 1 August 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following receipt of your application you may then be invited to interview.<br \/>\n<strong>*maximum contribution of \u00a31086<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that Rescon Technologies, a UK company focused on helping people lead healthier lives has agreed to offer a bursary\u00a0(up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2016\/07\/12\/bursary-opportunity-pg-study-at-the-tizard\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43796,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}