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Three PhD
Studentships
in ‘Adaptable Suburbs’
Adaptable
Suburbs:
a study of the relationship between networks of human activity and the
changing form of urban and suburban centres through time
Following
the
recent award of a 3.5 year grant from the EPSRC, the Adaptable Suburbs project
is advertising
three PhD studentships, as follows:
1. Space syntax analysis of
‘emergent
centralities’;
2. Historical
spatial ethnography
3. Commercial ethnography
UCL Department / Division: Bartlett School of Graduate
Studies,
Department of Anthropology
Duration of Studentship: 3.5 Years
Stipend: Full stipend of £15,590 per annum, rising annually,
subject to
nationality and residence status
Vacancy Information: The UCL ‘Adaptable Suburbs'
project invites
applications for three 3.5 year fully-funded EPSRC studentships at
University
College London commencing 1st October 2010 (or soon after). The
scholarships
include full bursary and tuition fees. The students will be joining a
team of
researchers from the disciplines of built environment, anthropology and
geomatic engineering. The studentships will be hosted by UCL Bartlett
School of
Graduate Studies (studentship 1) or UCL Anthropology (studentships 2
and 3) and
will be supervised by the project team: Dr Laura Vaughan, Dr Victor
Buchli and
Dr Sam Griffiths.
The ‘Adaptable Suburbs’
project is focused on
understanding how small centres of socio-economic activity emerge
through time,
using Greater London as its geographical focus. It stems from a
previous
project which looked at twenty of London’s outer suburbs, see www.sstc.ucl.ac.uk.
The
research will provide evidence for policy decision making and for
planning and
design to improve the future sustainability of the aging built
environment. It
will also develop innovative methods for the integration of
socio-economic data
with information about the layout of urban areas, and will include an
element of participatory ethnography in several suburban town centres
in London. The project is funded jointly
by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) and
the ESRC
(Economic and Social Sciences Research Council).
Eligibility: For
nationality and residence requirements, please see http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/StudentEligibility.htm.
Candidates
must have obtained a 2.1 or equivalent and a Master’s degree
in the relevant subject – see person specification for details. For
2010-11 EPSRC has stipulated that the minimum stipend will be £15,590,
in
addition to the tuition fee, which will be paid to the university from
the
project funds.
Applications should include a
CV, academic transcripts and
a two-page statement explaining how your research experience and
academic
knowledge relate to the project in general and to the studentship to
which you
are applying in particular. Applications should state clearly which
studentship
is being applied for and should be sent to Dr Laura Vaughan <[log in to unmask]>, copying to Dr Victor Buchli
<[log in to unmask]>
and Dr Sam Griffiths <[log in to unmask]>.
Please include a
contact telephone number and an email address. Academic references will
be
taken up for all short-listed candidates.
Please
download
further particulars from here
We plan to interview
shortlisted candidates on 27th
September 2010.