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Loughborough University Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities will
shortly be advertising competitive PhD studentships commencing in October
2000. Please draw this to the attention of any suitably-qualified students
interested in pursuing postgraduate research in Geography. Full conditions
of these studentships (closing date 10th March 2000), together with
application forms, are available on-line at
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/faculty/ssh/sshstu.html.
While innovative and original research proposals in any area of physical or
human geography are welcomed, priority will be given to those that are
congruent with the Department of Geography's specialisms in Globalization
and World Cities, Cultural and Political Geographies of the Post-colonial,
Social Geographies of Identity and Difference and Analysis of Environmental
Processes. The following list is indicative of the type of research topics
that the Department would be keen to support:
* Globalization and cultural change in the City of London (Supervisor: Dr
Jon Beaverstock)
* British expatriate communities in offshore financial centres (Supervisor:
Dr Jon Beaverstock)
* Geographies of healthism: ideology, knowledge and identity (Supervisors:
Professor Morag Bell and Dr Sarah Holloway)
* Aid and the politics of the post-colonial: New Labour's overseas
development strategy (Supervisors: Professors Morag Bell and David Slater)
* Cinematic cities (Supervisors: Drs Marcus Doel and Phil Hubbard)
* Cultural Cuts: Labour Market Segmentation, Workplace Geographies, and the
Negotiation of Identity in the Hairdressing Industry (Supervisors: Drs
Sarah Holloway and Jon Beaverstock)
* Moral geographies of sex education (Supervisor: Drs Phil Hubbard and
Sarah Holloway)
* Territorial democracy and decentralisation in Latin America (Supervisors:
Professor David Slater and Dr Ed Brown)
* Globalization and World Cities (Professor Peter Taylor)
* Nearshore Processes and Morphology along the Ridge and Runnel Coast of
North Lincolnshire, England (Supervisor: Dr Gerd Masselink)
* Sediment Sources Contributing to Bed Load in Desert Streams
(Supervisors: Professors Ian Reid and John Laronne (Ben Gurion University,
Israel)
* Hydrology and Hydrochemistry of Restored Open Cast (Supervisors:
Professor Ian Reid and Dr Val Black)
* River Bed Dynamics: Patch Stability-Instability (Supervisors: Professor
Ian Reid and Dr Steve Rice)
* Benthic Invertebrate Assemblages and Hydraulic Micro-Environments in
Gravel-Bed Rivers (Supervisors: Professor Ian Reid, Dr. Steve Rice and Mr.
Malcolm Greenwood)
Further details of these Postgraduate Opportunities in Geography at
Loughborough can be found on-line at
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/gy/postgrad/index.html. More specific
enquiries should be directed to the named supervisors or the Postgraduate
Tutor, Dr Phil Hubbard.
Phil Hubbard
Lecturer in Human Geography
Loughborough University
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
(01509) 222747
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/gy/gypjh/Index.html
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