Social Geography PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in the UK

Information on the School/Research Group. The supervisory team consists of Professor Gerry McCartney (School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow), Dr Will Ball (Robert Gordon University) and Dr David Walsh (Public Health, University of Glasgow). Read more

Supervisor: Prof GM McCartney

19 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Housing precarity in the Scottish private rented sector: disabled peoples’, their families, and carers’ experiences of private renting

University of Stirling Faculty of Social Sciences

Precarity is a pivotal concept in understanding the instability and insecurity facing private renters who are having to grapple with unaffordable rents, poor conditions, and lack of secure tenancies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K McKee

19 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Just and Sustainable Transitions: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Behaviour Change in the Cairngorms National Park

University of Edinburgh Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

About the project. The University of Edinburgh is inviting applications from suitably qualified graduates for a fully-funded PhD studentship in sociology to research the creation of just sustainability transitions in the Cairngorms National Park. Read more

Supervisor: Dr ZR Russell

19 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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A longitudinal study of changes in tobacco and alcohol retail availability and maternal health behaviors

University of Edinburgh Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

About the Project . The University of Edinburgh is inviting applications from suitably qualified graduates for an exciting fully-funded PhD studentship in Health Geography. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Clemens

19 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Migration and Medical Climatology: the climatic pull upon those leaving Scotland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

University of Dundee School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

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Supervisor: Prof G Morton

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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What role for the voluntary and community sector in promoting community resilience?

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

The recently published UK Government Resilience Framework (Cabinet Office 2022) renews a commitment to a “whole-of-society” approach where strengthened partnerships with the voluntary and community sector (VCS) are seen as an important way of protecting communities. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Coates

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Valuing green and blue urban landscapes

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

During this prolonged period of neo-liberal development our discourse in the West has become fragmented between a growing concern for climate change/sustainability and a continued need to promote intensive growth and prioritise the needs of capital. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Garside

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Disasters and the role of community resilience

Kingston University Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment

Community resilience has become a central part of disaster management approaches over recent years, adopted by policymakers and practitioners’ worldwide. Read more

Supervisor: Dr T Coates

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Urban flooding: Blue-green infrastructure as a strategy for resilience

University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Information on this PhD research area can be found further down this page under the details about the Widening Participation Scholarship given immediately below. Read more

Supervisors: Prof N Entwistle, Prof M Hardman

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Evaluating the Just Transition to effect policy change

University of Dundee School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

It is an undeniable fact that the world faces environmental and climate crises of epic proportions. What is also clear to see is the social and political impacts of these crises across states and societies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S El Droubi, Dr E Carvalho

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Political and/or feminist geographies of airspace technologies

University of Reading School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science

Enquiries and applications are invited in the area of political and/or feminist geographies of airspace technologies. Project to encompass one or more of the following themes. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Jackman

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We have 13 Social Geography PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in the UK

Social Geography PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in the UK

We have 13 Social Geography PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in the UK

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