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COLLABORATIVE EXCELLENCE IN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH
As part of an innovative collaboration, the three major research-led
universities in Yorkshire are offering three-year Research Studentships for
students beginning full-time PhD programmes in 2005/06. Each student project
will be supervised by two members of academic staff, one each from two of
the partner universities (and in one project by three, one from each
university). Students will register at one university but will have access
to the research facilities of the partner institution and will be part of
one of the four research networks which span all three universities. The
studentships provide Home/EU tuition fees, an annual maintenance grant of
£12,000 and a contribution towards research expenses.
The closing date for all applications is 18 May 2005.
Applicants interested in any of the projects listed below should contact the
University where the project is based.
NETWORK: SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES - PEOPLE, PLACES AND PROSPERITY
The Office for the Deputy Prime Minister (OPDM) new initiative (Sustainable
Communities: People, Places and Prosperity) sets out the action agenda for
sustainable communities. They note that 'a truly sustainable community must
be a fair community, where everyone has the chance of a good education, a
decent home, support for good health, and the opportunity to get a job'.
They call for research which tackles issues such as poor educational
attainment, poor health, high crime, worklessness and homelessness. The main
aim of the studentships in the network is to build a series of models to
explore various policy scenarios in the most deprived communities of Leeds ,
Sheffield and York . These models will consist of a suite of household based
spatial microsimulation models which will replicate the types of households
found in deprived urban areas (including age, family type and size,
employment type, income), and the types of activity patterns they currently
have. Then, powerful household accessibility and provision indicators can be
built for each activity type (e.g education, health, retail, work). These
models can then be used to look at how changing social or area-based polices
can impact on household income and how changing the provision of, and access
to, the supply-side infrastructure (schools, GPs, hospitals, retail centres
etc) can reduce inequalities of access and make for 'fairer communities'.
This network combines the strengths of Leeds and Sheffield Geography
departments in urban modelling and in sub-sector analysis (Leeds - retail
and education; Sheffield health and labour market analysis), as well as the
expertise in the sociology of housing and neighborhoods of the Department of
Sociology at York and that in health issues of the Department of Health
Sciences at York.
STUDENTSHIPS IN THE NETWORK
Simulating geographies of homelessness and worklessness (based at York )
Lead supervisor: Professor Roger Burrows, Department of Sociology,
University of York
Second supervisor: Professor Danny Dorling, Department of Geography,
University of Sheffield
Simulating geographies of educational attainment (based at Sheffield )
Lead supervisor: Dr Dimitris Ballas, Department of Geography, University of
Sheffield
Second supervisor: Dr Mark Birkin, Department of Geography, University of
Leeds
Simulating geographies of health inequalities (based at Leeds)
Lead supervisor: Professor Graham Clarke, Department of Geography,
University of Leeds
Co-supervisors: Dr Jan Rigby, Department of Geography, University of
Sheffield; Professor Jo Green, Department of Health Sciences, University of
York
ELIGIBILITY:
The studentships will support candidates embarking, in October 2005, on a
full-time programme of studies leading to the degree of PhD. They are
tenable for up to three years, subject to satisfactory progress. The partner
institution will give the award-holder access to its facilities. Interested
candidates need to apply to the institution where the lead supervisor is
based.
For more information visit:
http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/gso/gsp/finance/sust_comms_network.htm
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