Postgraduate research opportunities for 2012 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 2012. 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.
The projects are listed below and subdivided by our two research groups: Earth Systems and Human Geography.
The closing date for applications to the Human Geography pathway of the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (SGS DTC) is 30 March 2012. See application details.
NEW: Fully-funded PhD place available on Archaean cherts - joint between SUERC and the University of Glasgow: see Further Particulars (Deadline 2 March 2012).
NEW: Fully-funded PhD place available on Geographies of Learning Disability: see Further Particulars (Deadline 2 March 2012).
Applications for studentships funded by the University of Glasgow and NERC was 5 pm on Monday 26th January 2012
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) - Filling in the gaps: Understanding seasonal North Atlantic climatic variability over the recent Holocene
Supervisors: Nick Kamenos and Trevor Hoey - The Middle Miocene climate transition: biomarker constraints on temperature, CO2 paleo-ecology and climate sensitivity.
Supervisors: Dr James Bendle, Dr Appy Sluijs (Biomarine Sciences, Institute of Environmental Biology; Utrecht University, Netherlands), Dr Robert McKay (Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand). - Reconstructing Ocean Acidification and its Impacts at High Resolution
Supervisors: Nick Kamenos, Maggie Cusack, and Rob Ellam (SUERC) - Earth observations for continuous monitoring of lake level changes on the Tibetan Plateau
Supervisors: Zhenhong Li, Andrew Henderson (Aberystwyth University), Susan Waldron, and Marian Scott (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow)
Global biogeochemical cycle projects
- Freshwaters degas CO2 to the atmosphere: why? how much? when? where?
Supervisors: Susan Waldron, Trevor Hoey, and Dr. Jason Newton (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre - What is the optimal heather moorland management regime for carbon sequestration?
Supervisors: Prof. Susan Waldron, Dr. Alona Armstrong and Dr. G. Matt Davies (Interdisciplinary Studies).
Earth-life systems projects
- 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 - The role of the environment in the evolution of biomineralisation
Supervisor: Dr Uwe Balthasar - Life in terrestrial hydrothermal systems: analogues for Mars?
Supervisors: Martin Lee and Darren Mark (SUERC)
Earth surface evolution projects
- Post-orogenic landscape evolution in a high-elevation passive margin highland belt, SE Australia: bedrock river channel processes and cosmogenic nuclide analysis
Supervisors: Paul Bishop, Derek Fabel, Fin Stuart (SUERC) & Mikaël Attal (Edinburgh) - The age(s) and source(s) of post-contact sediment in eastern Australia
Joint PhD with Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; Glasgow
Supervisors: Paul Bishop and Derek Fabel; Macquarie Supervisors: Associate Professor Damian Gore and Dr Kira Westaway. - 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) - Glacial isostatic adjustment in NW Europe: constraints provided by InSAR and GPS observations Supervisors: Zhenhong Li and Paul Bishop
- Rapid damage assessment using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for earthquake hazards Supervisors: Zhenhong Li and Jongrae Kim (Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow)
Shallow crustal projects
- Glacial isostatic adjustment in NW Europe: Constraints provided by InSAR and GPS observations
Supervisors: Zhenhong Li & Paul Bishop - 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
- The eruption and deposition of hot, crystal laden slurries: a study of crystal-rich ignimbrites Supervisors: David Brown and Fiona Meade
- The emplacement and deformation of rheomorphic ignimbrites Supervisors: Dr. David Brown and Dr. Daniel Koehn
Studentships offered by the Human Geography Research Group
NEW: Fully-funded PhD place available on Geographies of Learning Disability: see Further Particulars (Deadline 2 March 2012).
The closing date for applications to the Human Geography pathway of the ESRC Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (SGS DTC) is 30 March 2012. See application details.
- 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