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ESRC CASE Studentships 2004
Applications are invited for four ESRC CASE studentships in the Department
of Geography, University of Durham. The studentships provide funding to
cover fees and maintenance to undertake the degree of PhD by research,
together with an additional award from the CASE partners (1.5K per year).
They commence in October 2004.
ESRC Collaborative (CASE) Studentship with Age Concern England and Age
Concern Durham County
Spatial mobility and exclusion in old age: developing a participatory GIS
with older people
Lead Supervisor: Dr Rachel Pain; Tel: 0191 3341876; e-mail:
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ESRC Collaborative (CASE) Studentship with Traidcraft Plc and Traidcraft
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Fair Trade and Producer Livelihoods: Exploring the Connections
Lead Supervisor: Dr Jonathan Rigg; Tel: 0191 3341925; e-mail:
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ESRC Collaborative (CASE) Studentship with Building and Social Housing
Foundation (BHSF)
Creating Sustainable Communities in a 'Northern' City-Region
Lead Supervisor: Dr Gordon MacLeod; Tel: 0191 3341915; e-mail:
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ESRC Collaborative (CASE) Studentship with Building and Social Housing
Foundation (BHSF)
City-to-City Co-operation and the Realisation of Urban Sustainability
Lead Supervisor: Dr Harriet Bulkeley; Tel: 0191 3341940; e-mail:
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Applications and Further Information
Applications are welcomed from any suitably qualified students (see
http://www.esrc.ac.uk) Potential candidates should contact the lead
supervisors to discuss any topic specific enquiries.
Closing date for applications is May 07th 2004. You will be required to
complete a University application form, details are available from:
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/research/Research_Office/admissions/index.ht
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Please also include a covering letter to state why you wish to apply for
the studentship together with a copy of your CV in your application. It is
important that you clearly state on the form which of the projects you
wish to apply for and include a covering note to inform us when you
will/will not be available for interview Ä they are likely to be held
between mid May and the beginning of June.
For general information and application forms, please contact:
Rachel Bell
University of Durham
Department of Geography
Science Laboratories
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
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DESCRIPTIONS:-
Spatial Mobility & Exclusion in Old Age: Developing a Participatory GIS
with Older People
This PhD project is co-funded by Age Concern England and Age Concern
County Durham.
It seeks to:
Explore and explain key issues of spatial mobility with older people in
poorer communities.
Develop a methodological approach for integrating qualitative data into
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) within a participatory research
framework.
Contribute to academic understandings of old age, spatial mobility and
social exclusion.
Inform policy discussion and good practice in research and consultation.
Fair Trade & Producer Livelihoods: exploring the connections
Aims:
To understand the benefits and risks that are felt by producer groups and
how these relate to wider livelihood strategies.
To appreciate the economic and social forces that influence economic
performance and that contribute to gaining market access for poor and
marginalised groups.
To analyse the links between Fair Trade producer groups and the enabling
relationships that contribute to successful trade and thus to poverty
alleviation.
Anticipated outcomes
Commercial and social benefits
Traidcraft envisages the research delivering rigorous empirical evidence
detailing the impact of their activities. This will, in turn, inform their
developmental decision making.
Intellectual benefits of the research project
Fair trade will be theorised within development theory and practice,
making a case for Fair Trade as a coherent development strategy. The work
will also draw on related theoretical departures from the wider social
sciences.
The research will be supervised by Professor Jonathan Rigg (Geography), Dr
Janet Townsend (Geography) and Dr. Gina Porter (Anthropology) at the
University of Durham, and Dr. Geoffrey Bockett at Traidcraft.
Creating Sustainable Communities in a ‘Northern’ City-Region
This project will be supervised by Dr. Gordon MacLeod and Dr. Harriet
Bulkeley, in collaboration with the Building and Social Housing
Foundation. It seeks to:
Explore the extent to which the development of ‘sustainable communities’
represents a meaningful ‘step change’ in urban regeneration.
Assess how the themes of ‘sustainability’ and ‘community’ have been
incorporated into policies for housing and regeneration in recent decades
within the Newcastle-Gateshead city-region.
Examine the significance of ‘place’ in shaping, enabling and constraining
the capacity to achieve policies for ‘sustainable communities’ in the
Newcastle-Gateshead city-region.
Contribute to academic debates on urban governance, urban politics,
community development and critical approaches to ‘sustainable
development’, ‘sustainability’ and ‘community’.
Inform policy discussion about good practice in urban regeneration and of
the challenges confronting the establishment of ‘sustainable communities’.
City-to-City Co-operation and the realisation of urban sustainability
This PhD project will be supervised by Dr. Harriet Bulkeley and Dr. Gordon
MacLeod, in collaboration with the Building and Social Housing Foundation.
It seeks to:
Explore the extent to which city-to-city co-operation in the arena of
urban sustainability is a feature of local government practice in the UK.
Assess the links and exchanges which are being created through city-to-
city cooperation by UK local authorities and its effectiveness as a means
of policy transfer and policy learning.
Examine the implications of city-to-city cooperation for the ways in which
urban sustainability is being implemented in the UK.
Contribute to academic debates on the nature of policy transfer, policy
learning and governance.
Inform policy discussion on the dissemination of good practice for urban
sustainability and on the ways in which good practice is incorporated into
policy development.
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