Interdisciplinary PhD studentships (incl. environment) at University of Stirling, Scotland, U.K.
Hannes Stephan
Dear colleagues,
With just 11 days to go until the deadline, please share this PhD studentship advert with promising students and circulate within relevant networks.
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The Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) Studentships are offering both UK and international students:
- A number of 3-year full-time equivalent PhD studentships on a fully-funded basis
- Fee waivers
- Cash bursaries for students who already hold funding awards for fees
IAS Studentship holders will work in collaborative, inter-disciplinary clusters of postgraduate researchers working on complementary doctoral projects. Full details in the guide for applicants.
Expressions of interest, incl. a project proposal (max. 4,000 characters), have to be submitted by 14 April 2023.
There are multiple environmental themes on offer. In particular, look up the research cluster on ‘Nature Emergency: Interdisciplinary Responses by Active Citizens’, led by a team of psychologists, social scientists, biologists, economists, and political science and education scholars.
Bear in mind that your proposal should be interdisciplinary. Don’t worry if your ideas are not captured by the example projects listed for this cluster. Instead, start with the broader themes in the description.
We are living in a Nature Emergency resulting from climate change, biodiversity loss, and disconnection from nature. This emergency necessitates urgent responses on multiple levels and scales – from the individual to larger coordinated actions addressing pervasive threats to the environment and incorporating nature-based solutions to create more sustainable ways for people, animals, and plants to co-exist.
Our aim is to respond to the Nature Emergency by drawing on related and interlinked areas of scientific inquiry, including psychology, biology, sociology, social work, economics, politics and education, to answer the following questions: How do people interact with nature and how can human-wildlife co-existence benefit from public involvement in research? How can people’s understandings of threats to nature and their resulting emotional responses be utilized to mitigate the emergency? How can intergenerational and ‘rights of nature’ based approaches contribute to the development of non-anthropocentric metrics and valuations of nature resources? And how can such approaches influence decision-making processes across educational, political/policy, economic and practice contexts? Using both quantitative and qualitative methods as well as cutting-edge technology, this novel and cross-disciplinary research will help to create a resilient and resourceful society prepared to act effectively upon the Nature Emergency.
Enquiries to:
Division of History, Heritage, and Politics (HHP)
University of Stirling, Scotland, U.K.