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From: Hugh Deeming
Hi everyone
There is an opportunity at Kingston University for a funded PhD
which involves the creation and use of a mixed media flood database.
I have pasted the details below but also attached a PDF and a Word
document, so please use whatever is easiest (the attached docs have much
nicer formatting).
Can you please pass on and advertise anywhere that there may be
suitable applicants. We are looking for someone with an MSc (more detail
below), and competition is likely to be strong for these funded places.
PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE IS VERY SOON - Friday 20th of June 2014
Thanks Tracey.
Funded PhD in Flood Research
Title: Crossing the qualitative/quantitative divide: multimedia
databases in flood research
Deadline: Midnight GMT, Friday 20 June 2014 (interviews between 7th
& 11th of July 2014)
There is an exciting opportunity for a funded PhD at Kingston
University in London with an annual stipend of £14,400. This project will
create a countrywide data portal, providing for the first time easy access
to a wide range of mixed media secondary data sources. This will include
Environment Agency records and reports, documents produced by local
government and emergency services, media outputs (print, video and web
based) as well as both quantitative and qualitative research. A piece of
place-based research using the database will both explore and illustrate the
potential of the portal to enable innovative original research which
combines media types and crosses the traditional quantitative/qualitative
divide. The project will meet the current demand for more effective use of
secondary data, enabling it to be explored in new ways by academics, policy
makers, emergency services, flood practitioners, community groups and the
wider public.
The applicant will ideally be a geographer with a good Honours
degree and an MSc which has a significant floods/disasters element. They
must have experience with both quantitative and qualitative research methods
and have sufficient computer based skills to create and manage the flood
database.
Further information, including how to apply, can be found at:
<http://sec.kingston.ac.uk/research/research-degrees/current-research-opport
unities/funded/#gge>
For an informal discussion you can email Dr Tracey Coates -
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Dr Tracey Coates
Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment Kingston University
Penryhn Rd.
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 2EE
020 8417 2510
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