PhD Studentship: The Hybridity of Polluted Freshwaters

Award sort: PhD

Utility cut-off date: 01/05/24

Begin date:   01/10/24  

Period of award: 4 years

Eligibility: UK, EU, Remainder of World

Studentship funding

Sponsored by Leverhulme doctoral programme, this studentship supplies, charges and stipend prices for students for as much as 4 years paid at UKRI’s customary home charge, with a further grant of £10,000 to every scholar for analysis bills.

Sort of alternative

Absolutely-funded studentship – Alternatives that are absolutely funded (e.g. covers all charges and stipend)

Introductory Paragraph  

Freshwater air pollution is a manufactured water panorama (waterscape), embedding with its flows and cycles applied sciences, establishments, discourses, and meanings which produce and are produced by energy relations.  But, current debates on freshwater air pollution ignore the “bio-cultural-political” complexities that consequence within the decline of freshwater high quality and well being. Therefore, this analysis will unpack the who, why, what and the way freshwater air pollution happens and fosters energy and inequalities throughout scales.

Important Copy

The political ecology of freshwater air pollution will elaborate on how politics, practices, establishments, entry, applied sciences, perceptions and discourses converge in time and area to impression the well being and high quality of freshwaters. 

On this challenge, the PhD scholar will undertake a crucial perspective on the trigger and impact of polluted freshwaters. Utilizing actor-network idea, you’ll look at the advanced community of actors, networks, and actants within the air pollution of freshwater and its penalties on socio-hydrological techniques. Assigning anthropogenic actions as a key think about polluted freshwater ignores air pollution as a manifestation of advanced socio-hydrological impact. The analysis will make use of ethnographic, historic and hydrographic analysis instruments to discover the co-production of air pollution within the dormancy of on a regular basis lives. It would exhibit the ‘interconnectedness’ between freshwater, societal values, norms, political economies, cultures and discourses. It would additionally exhibit how the co-production course of manifests past air pollution to embody the reformation of cultures and the creation of environmental identities. Working intently with stakeholders and native communities will assist make sure that findings from the challenge informs communication and engagement actions within the case research.

You’ll;
A. Unpack the political economic system of freshwater governance and freshwater air pollution
B. Set up the connection between public notion and freshwater governance
C. Determine how freshwater ecologies, physiologies and circulate form the political economic system of freshwater governance and vice versa. 

understanding of the interactions between people and the atmosphere to assist sustainable options to the environmental challenges affecting our freshwater, lake, wetland, and groundwater ecosystems. To search out extra info on the programme and different analysis matters, please see the official CONNECT web site.

Entry necessities

An excellent candidate for this place could have a primary or second class UK honors and Masters diploma in Pure Useful resource Administration, Anthropology, environmental administration, water growth and administration or any related social science self-discipline. Familiarity with the topic of political ecology and ethnographic analysis strategies might be a bonus. 

Funding

The scholarship award will embrace charges and stipend prices for students for as much as 4 years paid at UKRI’s customary home charge, with a further grant of £10,000 to every scholar for analysis bills. 

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