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Dear All,
Please find below information about a further two studentships available in the School of Planning and Geography at Cardiff University. Further details are available at http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R943.html.
Best wishes,
Chris
ESRC and Cardiff University President's Research Scholarship: Food and Sustainable City-Regions (PhD Studentship)
Closing date: 1 March 2013
Duration: 3 years
Funding Amount: Full UK/EU fees plus stipend of £13,590 p.a. and further research allowance
The School of Planning and Geography has been awarded eight President’s Research Scholarships as part of a Cardiff University scheme that aims to promote excellence and impact of research in all academic disciplines. Six of these scholarships have already been filled.
CPLAN has invested these highly-prestigious PhD scholarships to strengthen and expand its ongoing and internationally renowned research on Food and Sustainable City-Regions. The scholarships have been devised to support research around one cutting-edge question: what is the role of different actors, governance levels, spatial scales and pro-poor planning strategies in reconnecting cities (physically, economically and socially) with their surrounding countryside'
Proposals are welcome in the following two areas:
1. The politics and planning of urban food security in the UK (Main supervisor: Roberta Sonnino; Second: Kevin Morgan)
2. A Spatial analysis of rural/urban flows in the UK (Main supervisor: Terry Marsden; Second: Yiming Wang).
Candidates are strongly advised to contact the first supervisor if they want additional information on these themes.
The School of Planning and Geography (CPLAN) is the largest planning school in the UK and takes a wide definition of planning which encompasses the policy areas of economic development, environment, housing, urban design, transport, health as well as land-use planning. The School strives to be a centre of excellence in research, teaching and policy and practice associated with the planning and management of cities and regions. The main goal of this scheme is to establish the School of Planning and Geography as a globally-recognized PGR training centre in the area of food and sustainable city-regions. The School is uniquely positioned to take on a leading role in this emerging research field, given its inter-disciplinary environment, its international research focus (involving developed and developing countries), and its worldwide reputation in the areas of planning, agri-food studies and regional, urban and rural development.
Research Brief
1: The politics and planning of urban food security in the UK: Pioneering city governments are beginning to devise a systemic approach to food security that signals the emergence of a “new urban foodscape” – an urban environment that fosters the multifunctional values of food in relation to public health, community development, environmental integrity and land use. This project aims to enhance understanding of the nature, dynamics and transformative potential of this new foodscape through a focus on the relationship between urban governance and planning: What are the opportunities for (and barriers to) the development of a municipal approach to food system planning' What tools and roadmaps for food security can emerge through co-production and exchange of knowledge between pioneering cities'
To address these questions, the project will select two innovative case study cities (e.g., Bristol, Brighton, Manchester, London) and focus on 3 themes: urban food governance and the multi-level polity; the urban food policy repertoire; urban food policy in action. Data collection will be organized around qualitative methods, including documentary analysis, interviews and strategy workshops to identify scenarios for future development of the new urban foodscape and support a participatory research approach.
2: A Spatial analysis of rural/urban flows in the UK: When more than half of the world’s population is urbanized, the public is increasingly interested in research that investigates more sustainable linkages between cities and their rural hinterland. Food has risen up academic and policy agendas, given its unique role in sustaining human life and its connections with a wide range of urban and regional policy areas, including land-use, transport, environment, etc. This project aims to contribute to this new agenda through a focus on food flows between rural and urban areas in the UK. A central research question is how to understand, evaluate and sensibly restructure the existing food supply chains in order to encourage more regionally-based sustainable food systems.
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Dr Christopher Bear
School of Planning and Geography
Cardiff University
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