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Dear colleagues, Can you please share with your networks and anybody you think would be interested in this PhD? Many thanks Tina ESRC Funded PhD Studentship on social media and disaster resilience We are seeking applications for an ESRC PhD studentship, entitled "Social media and community resilience: a process based study of South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Services." Funded by a White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership Collaborative award, the successful applicant will work with SYFR to evaluate how sites such as Facebook and Twitter can be used to promote community disaster resilience and encourage citizens to fully participate in disaster risk management and reduction initiatives. SYFR are also providing the successful candidate with an internship in the organisation as part of the studentship. The project will be co-supervised with Dr Paul Reilly (Information School). Further details on the studentship can be found here <http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AXW312/phd-studentship-social-media-and-community-disaster-resilience-a-process-based-study-of-south-yorkshire-fire-and-rescue/> and the closing date for applications is *20 March 2017*. -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. M. McGuinness Senior Lecturer in Risk Management & Strategy Sheffield University Management School The University of Sheffield Crookesmoor Building Conduit Road Sheffield S10 1FL, U.K. Tel: +44(0)114 2223381 Email: [log in to unmask] University of Sheffield voted number one for student experience Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014-2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Management School Accredited by AACSB, Equis and AMBA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You have been sent this email because you are a registered member of the Disaster Resilience mailing list: This is a 'lightly' moderated list. If you wish to send a message to the list 'reply' or post to: [log in to unmask] If you wish to subscribe to or unsubscribe from this list go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/disaster-resilience and follow the subscribe/unsubscribe instructions For more options, visit this group at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/disaster-resilience - The Disaster Resilience list aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the complex term, resilience; and to identify the key dimensions of resilience across a range of disciplines and domains. - The creation of this list is linked to the FP7 project, emBRACE: Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe www.embrace-eu.org - emBRACE is jointly co-ordinated by Prof Debby Sapir (Universite Catholique De Louvain) and Dr Maureen Fordham (Northumbria University) - This DISASTER-RESILIENCE discussion list was launched on 13 October 2011, International Day for Disaster Reduction http://www.unisdr.org/2011/iddr/. The List is managed by Maureen Fordham, John Twigg and Hugh Deeming - The emBRACE project has received funding from the European Communitys Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° 283201. The European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information shared on this list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~