This project will bring together human geography and environmental science to understand how climate change, flood/drought risk and mental health are experienced and responded to in Scotland’s communities. Combining a complementary suite of methods including policy analyses, desk-based environmental data-analysis, spatial (GIS) analyses, social survey, in-depth interviews and community engagement, this PhD will comprise an interdisciplinary encounter with human worlds and physical processes. By focussing on areas of flood/drought risk in Scotland, new data relating to understandings of the relationship between human mental health and local climatic conditions/risk will be sensitively collated and disseminated, providing an holistic understanding of community response and resilience to climate change in Scotland. This project will expand on recent work that has only just begun to acknowledge and address the relationship between climate change and mental health, offering an exciting opportunity to push forward the boundaries of knowledge in this area by adopting an explicitly interdisciplinary approach.
Innovative and distinctive features of the approach will be a community engagement strategy organised via ‘river walk events’ and community mapping of previously flooded/drought-prone high-risk areas – held for and with local publics – which will combine social and environmental approaches to sharing flood risk knowledges. This is intended to advance an innovative mobile interdisciplinary method of data collection/knowledge dissemination. The project will also examine the role that ‘cultural memory’ of past events can play in increasing community awareness/knowledge of local environments, thus increasing future resilience via co-creation of a culturally-appropriate community resource. The research team will recruit representatives of key national consultative, risk assessment and policy-making bodies to a project advisory board, ensuring that planned research outcomes will be relevant and targeted appropriately as part of the national effort to address and mitigate climate change.
Eligibility:
Applicants must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Applicants will have a first degree (undergraduate) at 2:1 or above and have a demonstrable interest in the topic area under investigation.
- Applicants can have a Masters degree, however this is not a requirement.
- Applicants can study part-time or full-time.
Other criteria: ability/willingness to manage, collate and collect quantitative environmental data and qualitative narrative data, and undertake GIS-based spatial analysis.
Selection Process:
Applications will be ranked by an internal institutional selection panel, and you will be notified if you have been shortlisted for interview on or around 27/04/23. Interviews will take place on Mid-late May.
This studentship award is subject to the successful candidate securing admission to a PhD programme within the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow. The successful candidate will be invited to apply for admission to the relevant PhD programme.
If you are interested in applying to the listed PhD studentship, please visit the site below, select the PhD studentship your are interested in and follow the further instructions provided under the "How to Apply" section.
https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships/current-opportunities/
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