Description

A unique funding opportunity for students of the MSc in Information Systems

The Hilti Chair of Business Process Management offers highly motivated full-time degree and Erasmus students the opportunity to get involved in the department's research activities alongside their studies. In order to be accepted onto this unique research scheme students must have demonstrated outstanding academic performance during their previous studies. The selection process is highly competitive with only a few places available each academic year. Early applications are recommended.

Who is eligible for the Student Research Fellowship?

• Erasmus students who come to the University of Liechtenstein for one or two semesters. The Institute of Information Systems is happy to establish an Erasmus agreement with your university as soon as a student is accepted as a Student Research Fellow.
• Full-time degree students enrolled in the Master of Science in Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein. In order to be accepted as a Degree Student Research Fellow you must also fulfil all requirements for admission to the Master of Information Systems.

For detailed information, please visit our website: www.uni.li/student-research-fellowship

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Job related skills

Research Analysis
As a Student researcher you will learn to inquire about and examine facts and make conclusions from the data collected. This skill will enable you to help companies develop new products, market products to consumers and analyze internal efficiency trends. Research analysts create data that enables companies to make decisions that significantly impact their bottom lines.

Computer Skills
Because so much of the research is either retrieved from a computer or entered into software on a computer, as a student researcher you must have excellent computer skills. You will work regularly with databases and spreadsheets, and create reports in word processing software. You will sometimes create software and write programming that will analyze data or work with other researchers in our team to develop technical methods of data analysis.

Communication Skills
As a researcher you will be writing reports, commentaries, briefs and summaries that provide information about the findings from your research. Your summaries and briefs must be detailed, concise and accurate. You will commonly discuss your results with small groups or the whole department.

Math Skills
You will need excellent math skills and must be proficient at working with statistics. Much of a duties as a researcher entail working with numbers from surveys and data in the form of statistics.

Non-teachable Skills
A number of non-teachable skills are required of researchers. You must be accurate, pay close attention to details, be an excellent proofreader and have the skills necessary to look beyond the obvious to see how data and facts can be linked together to create more meaningful conclusions.

 

Benefits

 Why become a Student Research Fellow at the University of Liechtenstein?

• Gain first hand research experience - Right from the start students will be involved in research activities of our institute and gain first insights in IS research in an international team of researchers.
• Be part of a team of an active research community - Research at the institute specializes in Business Process Management (BPM), data science and a number of related Information Systems (IS) topics.
• Benefit from flexible working hours - As a young research fellow your workload will be scheduled around your class and exam schedule
• Funding is available to support your stay in Liechtenstein and to allow you to focus on your studies and research. 

Host

University of Liechtenstein

City

Vaduz (LIECHTENSTEIN)

Study Domain(S)

Business Administration, International Management, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science & IT, Informatics & Information Sciences

Valid until

2015-07-01

Languages

English

Study Degree

Master