Qualification Type: | PhD |
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Location: | Cheltenham |
Funding for: | UK Students, EU Students, International Students |
Funding amount: | £19,237 p.a. for 2024/25 |
Hours: | Full Time |
Placed On: | 11th April 2024 |
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Closes: | 26th April 2024 |
Reference: | O266 |
Description
Environmental Planning: Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences PhD Studentship
Serious Games for Land use Net Zero
The University of Gloucestershire, Countryside and Community Research Institute, supported by the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences invites applications for an ESRC-funded PhD studentship. These particular studentships, known as ‘collaborative studentships’, are fully funded and involve liaison with a non-academic organisation, often at many key stages of the research programme. They will commence October 2024. The following collaborative studentship is available:
In the Environmental Planning Pathway: Designing serious games to inform land use decisions for net zero in Wales (in collaboration with Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Government).
The Supervisory team consists of: Professor Damian Maye, Dr. Julie Urquhart and Professor Julie Ingram (Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire), John Browne (adviser, Natural Resources Wales) and Caryl Williams (adviser, Welsh Government).
This PhD provides one of the first applications of serious games methodologies to farm-level decision-making for net zero. It has four aims:
Please see attached document for further information and detailed information on how to apply.
How to Apply
A completed application for the admission to doctoral study in the University of Gloucestershire: submitted to Daniel Keech dkeech@glos.ac.uk by the deadline of midnight 26th April 2024. Incomplete applications or applications received after this specified time will not be accepted
The application must contain the following documents:
Key dates
Closing date: Midnight 26th April 2024
Inteview dates: 3rd or 10th May 2024
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