Funded PhDs for 2012-13 Entry
AHRC Studentship
Closing date Thursday 14 June 2012, 4.00pm
1 fully funded AHRC Studentship is available for a student who is able to define her or his own PhD topic on an area of geographical interest in the arts and humanities (broadly defined). Applications are especially welcome from, but not limited to, those whose research interests connect with current research by members of the School’s Culture Space and Power and Health Place and Society research themes (Staff interests by Research Theme) around: the geographies of identity, relatedness, diaspora, belonging, and home; cultural and historical geographies of globalisation; posthumanism, bioethics, biomedicine and science studies; urban imaginations; artistic practices, performance and space.
Applications closed on Monday 30th April for the studentships below
NERC Open CASE PhD studentship
How will ecosystem shifts due to sea-level rise affect carbon storage and greenhouse gas fluxes in floodplain fens? One fully-funded PhD studentship in collaboration with the Broads Authority. Supervisors: Lisa Belyea (School of Geography, QMUL), Kate Heppell (School of Geography, QMUL) and Andrea Kelly (Broads Authority).
Deadline for applications: 4pm, Monday 30 April 2012
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NERC Open CASE PhD studentship 2012
Fully-funded BGS/QMUL PhD Studentship 2012
The 3D architecture and structure of a tectonised glacigenic sedimentary sequence in the Dogger Bank area of the southern North Sea.
The School of Geography, Queen Mary University of London and the British Geological Survey are seeking to appoint one student to a fully-funded BGS/QMUL Studentship, commencing September 2012. The project will be co-supervised by Dr Simon Carr (QMUL) and Dr Emrys Phillips, Dr Carol Cotterill and Dayton Dove (BGS Edinburgh).
Deadline for applications: 4pm, Monday 30 April 2012
Further information:
Applications closed on Monday 30th January for the studentships below
The School has funding available for both pre-defined (named) and open PhD studentships, for commencement in September 2012. Named topics still require applicants to develop their own, detailed Research Proposal.
Further details on the funding relating to each of the Studentships listed below is available on our Funding page.
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award
Children and Global Citizenship. One PhD Studentship as part of a wider programme of collaborative research between the School of Geography and the V&A Museum of Childhood on the theme ‘The Child in the World: Empire, Diaspora and Global Citizenship’. To be supervised by Miles Ogborn (School of Geography, QMUL), Professor Alison Blunt (School of Geography, QMUL), and Carolyn Chinn (Learning Manager, V&A Museum of Childhood).
ESRC Studentships
Up to 3 fully funded ESRC Studentships are available for applicants wishing to study on a +3 or 1+3 basis and who are able to define their own PhD topic relating to the research interests of one of the School’s three Human Geography research themes – Culture, Space and Power; Economy, Development and Social Justice; Health, Place and Society. Applications are especially welcome from those wishing to utilize a quantitative methodology and/or whose work will include collaboration with government, business and/or third sector organisations.
Queen Mary Studentships (Human Geography)
2 College Studentships for applicants who are able to define their own PhD research within the following broad topics:
- The transnational politics of the Latin American Diaspora – the Bolivian experience, to be supervised by Dr Cathy McIlwaine (School of Geography) and Professor James Dunkerley (School of Politics).
- Space and time at home in the eighteenth century, to be supervised by staff in the School of Geography (Professor Alison Blunt, Professor Miles Ogborn, or Dr Alastair Owens) and the School of History (Professor Amanda Vickery).
EPSRC studentship
- 3D microscopic examination of environmental materials to be supervised by Dr Andy Bushby (School of Engineering and Materials Science), Dr Kate Spencer and Dr Simon Carr (School of Geography).
Queen Mary Studentships (Physical Geography and Environmental Science)
1 College Studentship for applicants wishing to develop their own topic, or who are able to define their own PhD research within one the following broad topics:
- 3D microscopic examination of environmental materials, to be supervised by Dr Simon Carr and Dr Kate Spencer
- Sensitivity of Icelandic glaciers as an indicator of climate change in the North Atlantic, to be supervised by Dr Simon Carr and Prof James Brasington (School of Geography), Dr Finnur Pálsson (Science Institute, University of Iceland)
- Rare British Ostracoda: endangered endemics or hidden invaders?, to be supervised by Dr Dave Horne
- Post-Anglian evolution of the tidal River Thames, to be supervised by Dr Dave Horne and Dr Simon Lewis.
- Extent, dynamics and timing of Younger Dryas glaciation in the European Alps, to be supervised by Dr Sven Lukas (School of Geography) and Dr Matteo Spagnolo (University of Aberdeen)
- Timing, dynamics and palaeoclimatic implications of the Lateglacial glaciation in the Lochnagar area, Scotland, to be supervised by Dr Sven Lukas (School of Geography) and Dr Martin Kirkbride (University of Dundee)
Erasmus Joint Doctoral Programme
The School shares an Erasmus Joint Doctoral Programme on 'Science for Management of Rivers and their Tidal Systems (SMART)' with the University of Trento, Italy and the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Funding is available for 7 doctoral training positions on named topics in River Science
- Investigating and modelling vegetation – fluvial morphology interactions: bank erosion and accretion. Supervisors: Prof Angela Gurnell, Dr Gemma Harvey (QMUL), Dr Guido Zolezzi (U. Trento)
- Effects of in-stream vegetation on hyporheic biogeochemical processes. Supervisors: Dr Kate Heppel (QMUL), Dr Alberto Bellin (U.Trento), Dr Daniele Tonina (U. Idaho)
- Modelling the response of braided rivers and deltas to unsteady sediment supply. Supervisors: Prof James Brasington (QMUL) Dr Walter Bertoldi (U. Trento)
- Impact of invasive plant and invertebrate species on bank stability and sediment dynamics. Supervisors: Gemma Harvey (QMUL), Walter Bertoldi (U. Trento), Dr Bruno Maiolini and Dr Cristina Bruno FEM- Edmund Mach Foundation (Italy)
- Multi-scale 3-dimensional observations of the physical characteristics of flocculating, mixed sediments. Supervisors: Dr Kate Spencer, Dr Simon Carr (QMUL:)) Dr Michele Larcher (U Trento), Luigi Fraccarollo (U Trento)
- To what extent can woody debris help reduce the nitrogen loads of lowland rivers? Supervisors: Kate Heppell, Gemma Harvey (QMUL), Jörg Lewandowski (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Climate Sensitivity of the Presena glacier Supervisors: Dr Alberto Bellin (U. Trento), Simon Carr (QMUL)
NERC Algorithm Studentship (to be confirmed)
The School expects to be able to offer at least one NERC Algorithm Studentship. Please check here in the near future for details.