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Fully Funded ESRC CASE PhD Studentship
Improving Livelihoods in Rural Honduras
The University of Liverpool and Operation Wallacea
Applications are invited for a 3-year fully funded ESRC CASE Studentship commencing October 2006. ESRC CASE studentships include full payment of fees at the UK/EU rate, 3-year maintenance grant (in the region of £16k tax free per annum) and will also involve additional training support and field resources from the collaborative partner.
This PhD project will investigate how practices of development affect the production and change of livelihoods in a rural part of the developing world. It will ask a series of questions about how people in rural Honduras interact with an external organisation, which is not primarily concerned with aid but delivers aid/development in a subsidiary way, as they understand, produce and improve their livelihoods. This project focuses upon the work of Operation Wallacea, and its impacts upon the livelihoods of people in rural Honduras. Operation Wallacea is a series of biological and social science expeditions designed to underpin the achievement of specific wildlife conservation aims. Its expeditions are now operating in 5 countries: Indonesia, Honduras, Egypt, Cuba and South Africa. One of the impacts of this project will be to inform the efforts of Operation Wallacea and organisations like it to monitor and improve the outcomes of their encounters with local people.
To conduct this research the research student will spend approximately three months each year in Honduras, contributing to and studying the work of Operation Wallacea, and conducting more general research on rural livelihoods. There will also be an opportunity to spend an additional, partly funded field season with Operation Wallacea before the PhD begins, i.e. in July-August 2006. This would provide an opportunity to become acquainted with the area and the organisation, to make contacts and improve language skills.
The successful applicant must have a Bachelors or Masters Degree in a relevant social science discipline such as Development Studies, Geography or Sociology. In line with ESRC recommendations on recruitment, we anticipate that they will have completed a recognised postgraduate research training programme, or can demonstrate that the level of training already undertaken is in line with the requirements set out by the ESRC. It is also desirable for the applicant to be able to speak and write in Spanish since, though translators are available, research will take place largely in Spanish. Applicants will be required to meet ESRC residential eligibility requirements.
Informal enquiries about this studentship to Dr Richard Phillips ([log in to unmask]; telephone: 0151 794 2857) or to the Postgraduate Secretary in Geography: Ms. Jayne Avies (e-mail: [log in to unmask] or telephone 0151 794 2874). Applications may be submitted on-line via:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/how_to_apply.htm .
Deadline for applications is 5pm on Monday 24th April, 2006.
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