This position was previously advertised and filled in August/September 1995, but for reasons unrelated to the project has recently become vacant again.

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PhD Studentship in Collaborative Virtual Environments for Distributed Software Engineering

School of Computing Sciences De Montfort University, Leicester

Applications are invited for a 3-year PhD research studentship tenable at the Department of Computer Science, De Montfort University, Leicester.

Applicants should hold a first or upper-second class honours degree, MSc or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline, and must have 2 years' practical experience of OO analysis, design and software development, along with knowledge of at least one OOPL, preferably Smalltalk or SELF. Experience with UNIX software development and MOO would be beneficial, as would knowledge of Distributed Object Technology (eg. CORBA).

The successful candidate will work on a joint project with British Telecom developing a collaborative virtual environment to support distributed software engineering. Work will be undertaken at De Montfort University's Leicester campus, although the candidate will be expected to spend at least 3 months in total at BT's research labs in Martlesham.

The position is funded by an EPSRC Industrial CASE Award, and remuneration will be according to standard EPSRC maintenance grant rates, supplemented by a contribution from BT.

Applicants should send a detailed CV by fax, post or e-mail (ASCII or PostScript only), no later than 31st December 1995. Informal enquiries are also welcome. Interviews will be held in Leicester on January 19th 1996 (provisional date).

Contact:

Chris Hand Department of Computer Science De Montfort University The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH

Tel: 0116 257-7498 (direct line) fax: 0116 254-1891 E-mail: cph@dmu.ac.uk