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Postgraduate Funding in Geography 2011-2012
Five awards are available for applicants for funding for doctoral awards. Applicants for all of these should have a good undergraduate degree and expect to have completed a Masters Degree by the commencement of the Award. Applicants in Human Geography are also eligible to apply for ESRC funding over 3 or 4 years full time.
1) ESRC Studentships in Human Geography
Strong applicants for post-graduate research in Human Geography are invited to apply for Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding for 2011 onwards. This may be for either +3 funding (for those with a relevant Masters Degree) or 1+3 funding (for those with at least a 2i undergraduate degree but no Masters Degree). Human Geography is a recognised pathway in the new South East England Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) and applicants will compete for 24 quota awards held by the Centre.
The deadline for student applications is 11th March and applicants will have to complete a DTC form as well as the RHUL on-line form by that date. Decisions on funding will be made by mid-May.
2) One AHRC Block Award in Archaeology/Geography
This is for a project in archeology with a focus on aspects of human occupation. For more details please contact Professor John Lowe.
3) Four College Studentships in Geography
The Department has been awarded three awards which pay for fees plus a contribution towards maintenance (5-6k per year for three years). In addition One Overseas Top-Up Award is available in the broad field of Social and Cultural Geography. This pays 9k a year and may be supplemented to cover full overseas fees. These are for applicants with Masters Degrees in hands and are earmarked for the following areas. The deadline for all of these awards is 11 March 2011.
Social and Cultural Geography Group
Geographies of Belonging in a Mobile World
(potentially with the Centre for Developing Areas Research)
Recent work on geographies of mobility frequently pits mobile forms of identity construction (hybridity, diaspora, trans-nationalism) against more place-based forms of association and identity. The implication is often that mobility replaces or undermines the logics of place-based identity. This projects seeks to look at the ways people negotiate mobility-based and place-based identities in particular contexts. In particular we seek applicants who want to research mobile flows between the global north and global south (particularly Asia) as well as between cities in the global south or global north. This should help to balance the work on mobilities that tends to focus on the global north. Mobile groups could include students, tourists, volunteers, workers or other people who travel for fixed periods of time between nations.
Urban cultures and neoliberal urban politics
This area considers the impacts of neoliberal urban government and governance on the development of urban cultures. It has a focus on cities that are at the crossroads between Europe and the Arab world, and are outside the ‘core’ from which most critical theories of urban neoliberalism have been derived (usually USA/UK based studies.) Potential sites for analysis include Beruit, building upon existing research interests in the Department on the cities of the Levant, and Marseille, building upon Dr Dikec’s research on urban politics and protest in France.
Textiles, consumption and the urban fabric
The project considers the geographical and the transnational significance of textiles. This project area builds upon the innovative research of the recent Fashioning Diaspora Space project, which was concerned with South Asian fashions and textiles. The project extends this work to examine the connections between other textile traditions and practices and their significance for urban economies and expressions of identity (example textiles might include different forms of cotton, calico and woollens.) The work will have a focus on the role played by textiles in the construction and performance of transnational identities, and even in innovative forms of protest. The work will draw upon extensive collections in London, particularly at the V&A.
Politics and Environment Research Group
Democratising water technologies
Recent work on the political ecology of water has served to re-conceptualise both the urban and the very nature of the political. From debates over the urbanisation of nature to those over the relative merits of struggles for the right to water or for the commons, such work has moved between concrete activist engagements and abstract theoretical discussion with remarkable alacrity. This project seeks to build on such work through looking at the infrastructures through which water is produced, distributed and consumed. It seeks to question the ways in which water technologies appear to de-politicise initiatives calling for democratic access to water. Conversely, it will investigate the ways in which popular struggles might use technologies to democratise the hydro-social cycle and thereby re-conceptualise the right to water as the right to the city. In this regard, it seeks to further work on the question of the political.
Securitizing social networking and geographies of communication
Social networking is everywhere, or so it seems. News headlines proclaim that social networking technologies – including Facebook, Twitter and Youtube – and the messages they carry have, together, “gone viral” and captured the mood of an increasingly globalised public. But while many dismiss social networking as a space for trivial gossip and rumour mongering, it is also becoming clear that these services (and the community of users they create) have distinct political and security geographies. From Egypt, Tunisia and Iran to more traditional technological centres such as the United Kingdom and the United States, social networking technologies are credited with the mobilization of protest, the co-ordination of public action, and the formation of new senses of [digital] citizenship within and beyond their particular communities of users.
Centre for Quaternary Science
Constructing a multiproxy environmental framework for MIS 11: investigating climatic analogues for the Holocene.
Supervisors: Professor Danielle Schreve and Dr Ian Candy
Reconstructing seasonality during Quaternary climatic events and transitions in northwest Europe; δ18O and δ13C analysis of freshwater and marine molluscs
Supervisors: Dr. Ian Candy and Professor Danielle Schreve
Quantifying Late Holocene flood response to changing land-use and climate
Supervisors: Dr. Varyl Thorndycraft, Dr. Ian Matthews and Dr. Simon Armitage
Climate, diet and migration: reconstructing Late Pleistocene carnivore adaptations through stable isotopes and morphology
Supervisors: Professor Danielle Schreve and Dr. Wolfgang Mueller
Testing the Influence of Volcanic Eruptions on Weather and Short Term Climate: implications for weather risk prediction (with CASE Partner & external funding)
Supervisors: Dr. Simon Blockley, Phil Hayes (Speedwell Weather), Prof.John Lowe, Prof. Martin Menzies (Earth Science Department)
For futher details of these projects please see here.
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