Could I please draw the attention of interested potential applicants to the
following opportunities; apologies for cross-posting:
PhD studentship
This studentship is funded jointly by EPSRC and ESRC, on New Residential
Developments and Quality of Life in South East England, supervised jointly
by John Mohan (School of social sciences) and Alan Bloodworth (School of
civil engineering and the environment). This studentship will combine a
study of the residential environments of new developments built at different
periods of time (e.g. 1980s, 1990s, 2000s) with an investigation of
perceptions, on the part of residents of those neighbourhoods, of the extent
to which they provide a high quality of life. A similar study will be
undertaken of neighbourhoods in which the existing housing stock has been
extensively refurbished. The studentship will also look at the feasibility
of developing small-area indicators of environmental quality. The emphasis
will be on examining the inter-relationships between social and physical
infrastructure in developing residential neighbourhoods with a high quality
of life.
The studentship is available on a +3 basis to those with an appropriate
first degree in in architecture, civil /structural engineering, geography
and related social sciences, planning, or social statistics. Further
particulars are at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/SL254/PhD_Studentship/
and the closing date is 13th June.
Senior research assistant
This is a research post funded for 15 months as part of the
recently-announced centre for charitable giving and philanthropy. It will be
based at Southampton University, but will work as part of a team, with John
Mohan (Southampton), and colleagues at Kent University (Iain Wilkinson, Beth
Breeze, Matthew Bond, and Balihar Sanghera) on the theme of charity and
social redistribution. The project will involve research to examine
variations in the distribution of registered charities and charitable
resources within England and Wales, and to investigate relationships between
these distributions and local socio-economic conditions. The successful
applicant will be an enthusiastic researcher with good quantitative skills
derived from a degree and postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject
(e.g. economics, sociology, politics, geography, statistics). Further
details are available at:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/UC898/Senior_Research_Assistant_Fixed_term/
and the closing date for this is 10th June.
Potential applicants for these opportunities are welcome to contact me for
further information.
Many thanks
John Mohan
Division of sociology and social policy
School of Social Sciences
University of Southampton
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