Dr Mara Ferreri, Dr K Cassidy
No more applications being accepted
Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
About the Project
A new wave of geographical scholarship on the politics of housing and home has recently entered what was traditionally the purview of housing policy, planning and urban studies. These geographical debates address struggles for home through the study of social movements, resistance and alternatives; the lens of evictions, displacement, stigma, marginalization and precarization; and through feminist theories of home-making, social reproduction and care. By expanding our understanding of the struggle for home as produced, lived, imagined and contested - individually and collectively – this approach offers new openings for the advancement of disciplinary and interdisciplinary debates. Methodologically, this expansion is accompanied by a need for situated approaches that understand dwelling as a verb and that place dwellers as active subjects at the core of such struggles. It encourages a situated approach that acknowledges the power relations informing ‘housing’ as a subject of knowledge and inquiry, and that addresses how normative definitions of housing and home can make invisible alternative practices, histories and understandings.
This call seeks a candidate interested in undertaking a research project to advance, theoretically and methodologically, a situated understanding of the geographies of struggles for home in (a) place/s of their choice. Topics could include but are not limited to:
• Geographies of precarious urban dwelling
• Struggles for emplacement in the face of gentrification, eviction and displacement
• Real estate geopolitics and g/local resistance
• Emerging and historical housing commons, including social housing and community-led alternatives
• Social reproduction, embodiment and care in housing politics
• Under-represented housing struggles and its protagonists
• The intersection of housing activism and wider organising for social and spatial justice.
We would particularly welcome proposals that engage with critical social theory, and that seek to develop an innovative qualitative methodological approach, including working with non-traditional research techniques and participatory and/or action research frameworks.
The principal supervisor for this project is Dr. Mara Ferreri.
Eligibility and How to Apply:
Please note eligibility requirement:
• Academic excellence of the proposed student i.e. 2:1 (or equivalent GPA from non-UK universities [preference for 1st class honours]); or a Masters (preference for Merit or above); or APEL evidence of substantial practitioner achievement.
• Appropriate IELTS score, if required.
• Applicants cannot apply for this funding if currently engaged in Doctoral study at Northumbria or elsewhere.
For further details of how to apply, entry requirements and the application form, see
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/how-to-apply/
Please note: Applications that do not include a research proposal of approximately 1,000 words (not a copy of the advert), or that do not include the advert reference (e.g. RDF21/EE/GES/FERRERIMara) will not be considered.
Deadline for applications: 29 January 2021
Start Date: 1 October 2021
Northumbria University takes pride in, and values, the quality and diversity of our staff. We welcome applications from all members of the community.
Funding Notes
The studentship is available to Home and International (including EU) students, and includes a full stipend, paid for three years at RCUK rates (for 2020/21, this is £15,285 pa) and full tuition fees.
References
Recent publications by supervisors relevant to this project (optional)
Ferreri, M. (2020) Painted bullet holes and broken promises: understanding and challenging municipal dispossession in London’s public housing ‘decanting’. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 44 (6), pp. 1007-1022.
Ferreri, M. (2020) Contesting displacement through radical emplacement (book chapter). In Desai, V. et al. (eds) Handbook of Displacement. Palgrave MacMillan.
Ferreri, M. and Vasudevan, A. (2019) Vacancy at the Edges of the Precarious City, Geoforum 101, May, pp. 165-173.
Ferreri, M. (2018) Refurbishment vs demolition? Social housing campaigning for degrowth. In Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities. Edited by A. Nelson and F. Schneider. Routledge: London, p. 109-119.
Ferreri, M. and Sanyal, R. (2018) Platform economies and urban planning: Airbnb and regulated deregulation in London, Urban Studies, 55(15), pp. 3353-3368.
Ferreri, M. and Dawson G. (2018) Self-precarization and the spatial imaginaries of property guardianship, Cultural Geographies, 25(3) 425–440.
Ferreri, M., Dawson, G. and Vasudevan, A. (2017) Living Precariously: Property Guardianship and the Flexible City, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42 (2), pp. 246–259.
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