Postgraduate research opportunities for 2013 admission
The School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, is pleased to announce an exciting and diverse range of PhD projects for entry in 2013. Applications from prospective UK, EU and international students are welcome at any time. All applications are to be made online via the graduate school of the College of Science and Engineering.
Applications for funded positions on the below PhDs closed on the 31st Jan 2013, however, these studentships may still be available for externally funded candidates. Please contact the relevant PhD supervisor if you are interesed
Studentships offered by the Earth Systems Research Group (ESRG)
We are offering studentships in four areas of Earth Systems science:
- Climate change
- Global biogeochemical cycles
- Earth-life systems
- Earth surface evolution
- Shallow crustal
Climate change projects
- Meteorites from the Australian outback: A new terrestrial climate proxy? Supervisors: Martin Lee & Phil Bland (Imperial College London)
- Earth observations for continuous monitoring of lake level changes on the Tibetan Plateau. Supervisors: Zhenhong Li, Andrew Henderson (University of Newcastle), Susan Waldron, and Marian Scott (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow)
- Reconstructing Ocean Acidification and its Impacts at High Resolution. Supervisors: Nick Kamenos, Maggie Cusack, and Rob Ellam (SUERC)
Global biogeochemical cycle projects
- Quantifying peatland erosion and understanding the significance of these losses. Supervisors: Prof. Susan Waldron, Dr. Seamus Coveney and Dr. Zhenhong Li
- The Dynamics of Geothermal Fluid Circulation in the East African Rift. Supervisors: Prof. Susan Waldron, Dr. Paul Younger and Prof. Fin Stuart
Earth-life systems project
- Lab-on-a-chip screening of marine carbonate formation and stability (NERC RSC funding applied for). Supervisors: Maggie Cusack, Huabin Yin and Uwe Balthasar
- Evaluating stream habitat using a 2D hydraulic model. Supervisor: Rhian Thomas
- The palaeobiogeography of trinucleid trilobites: patterns, processes and causes of change in the dynamic Ordovician world. Supervisors: Alan W. Owen and Alistair McGowan
- Life in terrestrial hydrothermal systems: analogues for Mars? Supervisors: Martin Lee and Darren Mark (SUERC)
Earth surface evolution projects
- Antarctic glaciers and rock weathering: Exploring chemical and mineralogy processes within the blue ice fields. Supervisors: Martin Lee, Mark Hodson (University of Reading) and Phil Bland (Imperial College, London)
- A shocking state: novel mineralogical and geochemical signatures of terrestrial impact craters. Supervisors: Martin Lee, Paula Lindgren and Darren Mark (SUERC)
- Rapid damage assessment using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for earthquake hazards. Supervisors:Zhenhong Li and Jongrae Kim (Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow)
- Is glacial isostatic adjustment continuing in Scotland?: Insights from InSAR and GPS observations. Supervisors:Zhenhong Li , Paul Bishop, Jim Hansom and Alisdair Rennie (SNH)
Shallow crustal projects
- Late- to Post-Cretaceous Inversion of the British Isles: Tectonic Stylolites at Flamborough Head. Supervisor: Daniel Koehn
- Earth Observations for rapid response to large earthquakes. Supervisors: Zhenhong Li and Trevor Hoey
- Is glacial isostatic adjustment continuing in Scotland?: Insights from InSAR and GPS observations. Supervisors:Zhenhong Li , Paul Bishop, Jim Hansom and Alisdair Rennie (SNH)
- The eruption and deposition of hot, crystal laden slurries: a study of crystal-rich ignimbrites. Supervisors: David Brown and Zoe Shipton (University of Strathclyde)
- The emplacement and deformation of rheomorphic ignimbrites. Supervisors: David Brown and Daniel Koehn
- The role of water in explosive volcanic eruptions. Supervisor: David Brown
- Reassessing the stability of ancient continents using an innovative new approach. Supervisors: Roderick Brown, Romain Beucher, Cristina Persano, Fin Stuart (SUERC), Kerry Gallagher (Université de Rennes)
- Why is Africa so high and when did it get up there. Supervisors: Roderick Brown, Romain Beucher, Cristina Persano, Fin Stuart (SUERC), Kerry Gallagher (Université de Rennes)
Studentships offered by the Human Geography Research Group
- Indigenous environmental knowledge systems. Supervisor: John Briggs
- Legal empowerment of land ownership: a way out of poverty? Supervisor: John Briggs
- Trade unions and geographies of trans-national solidarity. Supervisor: Andrew Cumbers
- Poverty agency and class in the urban economy. Supervisor: Andrew Cumbers
- Adaptation and change in Europe's old industrial regions. Supervisor: Andrew Cumbers
- Sites of special interest. Supervisor: Hayden Lorimer
- More-than-human geographies. Supervisor: Hayden Lorimer
- Bio-Geographies. Supervisor: Hayden Lorimer
- Setting in stone: A cultural geography of the dry stane dykes. Supervisor: Hayden Lorimer
- Recording sound worlds: Documenting natural life and placing bio-acoustics. Supervisor: Hayden Lorimer
- Making and maintaining democratic public spaces. Supervisor: Ronan Paddison
- Art, culture and regeneration. Supervisor: Ronan Paddison
- The Political Geographies of Scottish Devolution. Supervisor: Ronan Paddison
- Historical geographies of 'madness' and asylums in Scotland. Supervisor: Chris Philo
- Social geographies of 'outsiders'. Supervisor: Chris Philo
- Political geographies of anti-neoliberalism: grassroots social movements, resource conflicts and the construction of solidarity networks. Supervisor: Paul Routledge
- Alternatives to neoliberal globalisation: theory, practice, performance. Supervisor: Paul Routledge
- Climate change and trans-local solidarities. Supervisor: Paul Routledge
- Feminist and Postcolonial geopolitics. Supervisor: Joanne Sharp