PhD Scholarships In Geography

The School of Geography is offering 20 bursaries for PhD programmes starting September 2010. Each bursary is equivalent to 25% of the annual tuition fee (equivalent to £3875) which can be used to reduce the costs of the whole tuition fee or taken as funds for maintenance. The bursaries are designed to encourage studentships which focus on interdisciplinary research which can address environmental and climate change, the societal challenges these create, and the necessary policies for environmental management and adaptation.

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Possible interdisciplinary PhD programmes include:

• Adaptation and resilience
• Sustainable management of ecological services
• Simulating future landscape dynamics
• Coastal management
• Climate change and biodiversity
• Low carbon societies
• Agent-based modelling of decision-making
• Climate change and disease
• The changing water cycle
• Long term environmental and climate change
• Alternative energy sources
• Environmental sensors and instruments
• Ecosystem management

Ideas from potential students for other topics are encouraged. The PhDs are 3-year interdisciplinary programmes with a main research supervisor in Geography and second supervisors in Geography and/or another School. For queries about studentship topics and making an application contact Julie Drewitt (Graduate School Administrator) J.A.Drewitt-at-soton.ac.uk.

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