Application Deadline: 17 June 2016. When you press the ‘Apply Online', the link will list the documents needed to support your application.
About the Sustainability Research Institute
The Sustainability Research Institute is home to a team of over 30 academic staff, 25 research staff and 45 research students conducting inter-disciplinary research on the different dimensions of sustainability. Research within SRI is based largely on the environmental social sciences and draws upon aspects of geography, sociology, politics, planning, economics, management, development studies and science and technology studies. Our broader activities combine social and natural sciences in leading-edge, interdisciplinary research through a series of major international projects and centres. SRI has received significant research funding from various sources, including the recent award of £5.5 million from the ESRC to establish the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (in partnership with the LSE). As well as being a centre of excellence for inter-disciplinary research, SRI runs a range of postgraduate and undergraduate programmes on the different dimensions of sustainability. http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/research/sri
About the Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre
Founded in 2005 with an initial injection of nearly £3million from HEFCE, the centre is now self-sustaining, working in partnership with host disciplines across the University to develop UG and PG teaching in applied ethics.
Since its inception it has developed significant Research and Professional Ethics Consultancy activity and has a lively programme of research seminars, research workshops and conferences to which its PGR students are expected to contribute. It has attracted charitable, professional body and learned society support for these events.
The IDEA centre currently teaches in the following areas: Medical Ethics, Engineering Ethics, Business Ethics, Ethics and Nanotechnology, Media Ethics, Ethics in Geography, Environmental Ethics, Computing Ethics, Ethics in Dentistry, Professional Ethics and Research Ethics. The centre has also worked in collaboration with organisations such as The Royal Academy of Engineering and Engineers Without Borders UK.
PhD Proposals
The SRI and the IDEA centre are looking to collaborate in supervising a PhD in the area of climate change and sustainability, including a focus on relevant ethical issues.
We are open to a wide range of proposals in the area of climate change, but proposals should include elements that would draw on the expertise of both the SRI and the IDEA centre, preferably in a way that draws different disciplines together, and makes use of the different areas of expertise.
The candidate should submit their own proposals (up to 1,000 words), explaining how the project would draw on the expertise and different disciplines of the two host centres. For example, a PhD project could focus on ethical issues relating to the growing climate services industry, both in the public and private sectors. Or a project could focus on sustainable economics, challenging the methodologies and assumptions that are common in economics, developing new alternatives to mainstream economics. However, these are only examples of the potential projects. Candidates should not consider themselves to be limited to these suggestions, and should prepare their own proposals.
There is no requirement to have a precisely even split of supervisions with the IDEA centre and the SRI. However, the project should allow for a significant contribution from each centre.
Informal enquiries about PhD proposals may be made to Dr Rob Lawlor from IDEA, email R.S.Lawlor@leeds.ac.uk and Professor Suraje Dessai from SRI, email s.dessai@leeds.ac.uk.
Funding
This fully-funded PhD is available to UK, EU, and overseas candidates. The funding is available for up to 3 years and will pay full tuition fees, tax-free stipend (£14,296 for 2016/17), and a research training and support grant of £750 per annum.
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