Covers fees, maintenance at £12,000 pa, and an allowance for conducting fieldwork and conference attendance.

Lancaster University Management School would like to announce availability of a research studentship funded by EPSRC under the Doctoral Training Account scheme. The successful student will become a member of the Department of Management Learning and Leadership, and will work with members of the Organizational Learning and Knowledge (OLK) research group. The focus of the research will be on motivational aspects of knowledge management and organisational learning, and it is expected that fieldwork will be conducted in high-technology engineering companies with which OLK members are already working.

The attached notes give further details of the potential scope and methodology of the project, although it is expected that the successful candidate will develop his or her own theoretical and methodological emphasis.

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Lancaster University faculty and alumni have recently topped two high-profile most influential lists in the world of human resource management.

LUMS graduate Clare Chapman, director general of workforce in the Department of Health, has been ranked at number one in Human Resources magazines list of the Top 100 most influential HR people in the UK.

Meanwhile St Martins College graduate David Fairhurst, senior vice-president and chief people officer of McDonalds Restaurants Northern Europe, was ranked as Personnel Todays top power player. David is an honorary fellow of the Centre for Performance-Led HR at LUMS.

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