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Happy new year Critters!

Apologies for cross-postings. Please circulate these exciting PhD opportunities in your networks...

Cardiff School of Planning and Geography is a major international centre for research in human geography and planning. As a top-rated school with the ambition to play a leading role in academic and policy debates at national and international levels, it aims to recruit committed research students for the pursuit of innovative, cutting-edge research at PhD level.

Please visit our website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/cplan/index.html

The school currently have a total of  6 ESRC PhD studentships funded through the Wales Doctoral Training Centre through the Environmental Planning pathway to start in the 2015/6 academic year (October 2015).

Three of the studentships are available on a +3 basis and assumes that the applicant will already have had training from a MSc degree:

1. 'Low-carbon planning and management: the case of Brecon Beacons National Park' supervised by Dr Oleg Golubchikov (CPLAN) and Dr Abid Mehmood (PLACE). 

For further information see: http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R2388.html

2. 'Where the Wild Things Are: Living with Governing Wild Boar' supervised by Dr Gareth Enticott (CPLAN).

For further information see: http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R2387.html

3. 'What space for place in Wales? Bridging risk perceptions and policy priorities in the spatial governance of climate adaptation' supervised by Dr Andrew Kythreotis (CPLAN) and Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh (PSYCH).

For further information see: http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R2386.html

The remaining three studentships are on a 1+3 basis and can be based on any topic related to environmental planning, human geography and cognate disciplines as long as the research connects with the priority research themes of the school's research groups, which are:

 

- Environment, Society and Space

- Spatial Analysis

- Spatial Planning and City Environments

- Urban and Regional Governance

For further information on these three 'open' 1+3 studentships please see: http://courses.cardiff.ac.uk/funding/R2385.html

The application deadline for every studentship is 4pm (GMT), Friday 9th January, 2015.

Kind regards,

Andrew​