The Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) invites applications for its Interdisciplinary English-speaking PhD programme 'Information and Communication Society'. The PhD programme has three different strands; Information and the Knowledge Society, Network and Information Technologies and e-Learning.

Successful applicants will be part of IN3 and join a vibrant, internationally oriented research community specializing in the investigation of the network society, the knowledge economy and e-leaning methodologies, as well as in the study of network technologies and specific areas of software. The staff of IN3 is composed of full-time researchers, professors at the Open University of Catalonia and international visiting professors.

Twenty positions are available whereof ten are for full-time, attending students benefiting from a competitive pre-doctoral grant, and ten will take the course through distance education.

IN3 welcomes applications from students from Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Engineering, Law and Political Science, Media, Science Education or Social Sciences in general, strongly motivated to undertake interdisciplinary research. 

The submission deadline is 13 June 2010.