About the Project
Fully Funded PhD Studentship working with the UKRI GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub
The UKRI GCRF South-South Migration, Inequality and Development Hub addresses the complex and currently intractable problem of how to ensure that South-South migration reduces inequalities and contributes to delivery of the SDGs. The Hub creates a network of research and delivery partners from 12 ODA-recipient countries that constitute six South-South migration 'corridors' between which there are significant flows of people, skills, resources and knowledge: Burkina Faso-Côte d’Ivoire, China-Ghana, Egypt-Jordan, Ethiopia-South Africa, Haiti-Brazil, and Nepal-Malaysia. Each has markedly different inequality patterns and forms, a range of development challenges and diverse policy approaches enabling a rich comparative analysis of the complex and multifaceted relationships between South-South migration, inequality and development in origin and destination countries.
For more information on the Hub, please see https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-directories/current-projects/2019/ukri-gcrf-south/
Project Description
The current migration research landscape is heavily skewed towards the Global North where existing research is largely designed and led, and where governments and international organisations increasingly fund research to inform policy development. The Global North's interests shape dominant research themes, producing a disproportionate focus on South-North migration and categories of migrant defined in law and policy to make sense of - and increasingly contain - migration flows. Epistemic communities concerned with migration are largely produced and reproduced in and by the Global North: while ODA-recipient countries host a growing number of research centres (several involved in this Hub), most researchers are trained in the Global North. The resulting echo chamber constrains the capacity of many of the poorest countries to analyse the migration issues that affect their communities without outside technical assistance and expertise.
Whilst the Hub is inevitably shaped by the existing politics of migration knowledge production, it also provides avenues for disruption by generating new centres of knowledge and ways of understanding. This PhD project will accompany the Hub on its journey as it tries to shift the gaze toward SSM, drawing together diverse researchers from ODA-recipient countries and providing extended opportunities for exchange and training. We want to better understand how talk of ‘decolonising research’ can be made to happen in practice: barriers, opportunities and the structural shifts that are required in thinking and actions to enable academics and others to ‘walk the talk’.
The full-time PhD studentship will cover UK/EU or overseas tuition fee equivalent, and an annual stipend for 42 months.
The Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations
The Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations has over 60 full-time research staff supported by a team of professional support staff. Our staff are extremely well-connected and are called upon to contribute their expertise on the national and international stage, as advisers to governments and international bodies or at conferences worldwide.
We take a multi-disciplinary approach to our work that brings together creative thinking on concerns of trust, communities, social relations, peacebuilding, peace and reconciliation and on the contemporary challenges of societal relationships in a diverse and connected world. Our portfolio of excellent and impactful research seeks to change lives and enhance well-being. We convene and contribute to public debates, provide effective policy guidance at local, national, regional and global levels and generate international collaborative research through our global networks.
For further information about CTPSR visit our website at http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ctpsr.
Entry criteria for applicants to PhD
• A taught Master’s degree in a relevant discipline, involving a dissertation of standard length written in English in the relevant subject area with a minimum of a merit profile: 60% overall module average and a minimum of a 60% dissertation mark.
PLUS
• The potential to engage in innovative research and to complete the PhD within a three-year period of study
• A minimum of English language proficiency (IELTS overall minimum score of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component)
• A first or good upper second class undergraduate degree in a related social science or in the humanities and a strong interest in pursuing research in this field.
How to apply
All applications require a covering letter, plus a 2000-word proposal addressing the research theme. Please state clearly which research project you are applying for.
Enquiries
Academic enquiries may be address to Professor Heaven Crawley [Email Address Removed]
However the Research Admissions team will process your formal application and are the main contact point for all admission and administrative -related enquiries.
Start date: September 2019
Duration of study: Full-Time – 3.5 years fixed term
Application deadline: 15 April 2019
Interview dates: Week commencing 13 May 2019
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