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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING

One fully-funded PhD studentship available for an outstanding candidate to join the ‘Realising Just Cities’ programme for Mistra Urban Futures UK, hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield. 

Project description:

We invite applications for an outstanding candidate to undertake a PhD on Communication, Engagement and Environmental Governance in Greater Manchester. The PhD is fully-funded by the Realising Just Cities programme and is supported by the Greater Manchester Low Carbon Hub. The student should be committed to the idea of transformative research, drawing on critical and pragmatist traditions to interrogate the relationship between knowledge and action and contribute to progressive urban change.

 

The aim is to develop an action-research PhD focussed on improving city-regional communications and engagement with civil society groups and citizens, with a focus on climate change and environmental governance within Greater Manchester. Through collaborative working with Greater Manchester stakeholders, the PhD will explore and develop the communicative spaces between public policy officials and civil society in the city-region. The project will draw together interdisciplinary perspectives to apply to a live context, focussing on the balance between digital and face-to-face communications and engagement tools. The research will be linked to the refresh and development of climate change/environmental strategies in Greater Manchester up to 2020

For further information see attached and contact Professor Beth Perry, [log in to unmask]

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