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Petray, Theresa
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Seeking expressions of interest by November 10, 2012
PhD Scholarship available on the ARC Linkage Project: 'Zeroing in on food waste: Measuring, understanding and reducing food waste'
Tax-exempt scholarship of $28,715 per year for 3 years (standard ARC entitlement) including relocation expenses of $1,520 maximum and thesis allowance of $840
Australians waste nearly 50% of the food they buy, producing over 3 million tonnes of garbage worth more than $5b and increasing our carbon footprint through transport costs and greenhouse gases from decomposition. Despite this significant wastage, reducing food waste has proved difficult because the reasons for over purchasing are complex; they have strong emotional and cultural determinants. Changing this behaviour requires understanding food purchase, preparation, recycling and disposal as socio-cultural as well as economically determined behaviour.
This three-year project is a collaboration between Central Queensland University, The University of South Australia, Flinders University, the Local Government Association of SA and Zero Waste SA. Studies already underway includes household ethnographies to identify the socio-cultural dimensions of food waste, an evaluation of psychological theories of behaviour change (notably the Transtheoretical model) with a view to developing guidelines and mathematical modelling (input/output analyses) of food waste in Australia.
We are seeking an enthusiastic team-player with interests in environmental psychology to join this multi-disciplinary research project and work with the team to design a complementary study in the areas of behaviour change and program evaluation.
You will need:
* To be prepared to enrol in a full-time postgraduate research degree at CQUniversity
* To be prepared to travel to Adelaide for occasional meetings if you are based elsewhere in Australia
* To have an interest in environmental psychology or a related field
* To have an appropriate Honours 1 or 2A (or equivalent) undergraduate degree;
* To not be receiving similar funding or stipend from any Commonwealth Government program;
* To not already have completed a degree at the same level as the proposed Commonwealth-supported candidature or at a higher level; and
* To not previously have held an Australian Postgraduate Award or APAI unless it was terminated within its first six months.
For further information on the project or to lodge an EOI, please contact Dr Kirrilly Thompson on 0413 616 650 or Kirrilly...@cqu.edu.au<mailto:Kirrilly...@cqu.edu.au>
The project is detailed at: http://www.cqu.edu.au/research/research-organisations/institutes/appleton-institute/research/current-projects/arc-food-waste-project
Seeking expressions of interest by November 10, 2012
PhD Scholarship available on the ARC Linkage Project: 'Zeroing in on food waste: Measuring, understanding and reducing food waste'
Tax-exempt scholarship of $28,715 per year for 3 years (standard ARC entitlement) including relocation expenses of $1,520 maximum and thesis allowance of $840
Australians waste nearly 50% of the food they buy, producing over 3 million tonnes of garbage worth more than $5b and increasing our carbon footprint through transport costs and greenhouse gases from decomposition. Despite this significant wastage, reducing food waste has proved difficult because the reasons for over purchasing are complex; they have strong emotional and cultural determinants. Changing this behaviour requires understanding food purchase, preparation, recycling and disposal as socio-cultural as well as economically determined behaviour.
This three-year project is a collaboration between Central Queensland University, The University of South Australia, Flinders University, the Local Government Association of SA and Zero Waste SA. Studies already underway includes household ethnographies to identify the socio-cultural dimensions of food waste, an evaluation of psychological theories of behaviour change (notably the Transtheoretical model) with a view to developing guidelines and mathematical modelling (input/output analyses) of food waste in Australia.
We are seeking an enthusiastic team-player with interests in environmental psychology to join this multi-disciplinary research project and work with the team to design a complementary study in the areas of behaviour change and program evaluation.
You will need:
* To be prepared to enrol in a full-time postgraduate research degree at CQUniversity
* To be prepared to travel to Adelaide for occasional meetings if you are based elsewhere in Australia
* To have an interest in environmental psychology or a related field
* To have an appropriate Honours 1 or 2A (or equivalent) undergraduate degree;
* To not be receiving similar funding or stipend from any Commonwealth Government program;
* To not already have completed a degree at the same level as the proposed Commonwealth-supported candidature or at a higher level; and
* To not previously have held an Australian Postgraduate Award or APAI unless it was terminated within its first six months.
For further information on the project or to lodge an EOI, please contact Dr Kirrilly Thompson on 0413 616 650 or Kirrilly...@cqu.edu.au<mailto:Kirrilly...@cqu.edu.au>
The project is detailed at: http://www.cqu.edu.au/research/research-organisations/institutes/appleton-institute/research/current-projects/arc-food-waste-project
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Dr Theresa Petray
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology
School of Arts and Social Sciences
James Cook University
Townsville, QLD, Australia
Office: DA4 - 119
Phone: (07) 4781 6674
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