To celebrate the University's research successes, the University of Hull is offering a full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship or International Fees Bursary for candidates applying for each of the following projects.
Closing date: - 13th March 2017
Studentships will start on 25th September 2017
PhD Scholarship 1: Spaces of Outdoor Education, Health and Well Being in a City of Culture
The benefits of learning in outdoor environments are well established. It helps children learn more effectively and aids their health and wellbeing. Yet only since 2012 has ‘Learning Outside the Classroom' been expected by Ofsted. Consequently, schools are adapting their policies and practices to provide outdoors learning, but this emerging field lacks academic analysis. This project explores the changing spaces and learning relationships generated by the Learning Outside the Classroom agenda. In addition, this PhD project explores how outdoors learning is negotiated in Hull: a city with poor education and health indicators, but one with a UK City of Culture 2017 pledge to generate a legacy of improved health, wellbeing and social aspirations for its children. Sustained ethnographic, participatory and interview-based research will assess how the outdoors agenda and City of Culture aspirations are understood and received across five Hull primary schools from different social catchments, and throughout the initial legacy period for City of Culture (2018-20). The research will inform future agendas for Outdoors Education and for healthy living in future City of Culture initiatives.
For further information, email: Professor David Atkinson david.atkinson@hull.ac.uk
The team of supervisors are interdisciplinary in their range: Professor David Atkinson (Cultural Geography, School of Environmental Sciences), Dr Lewis Holloway (Rural and Social Geography, School of Environmental Sciences) and Dr Josef Ploner (Education, School of Education and Social Science).
PhD Scholarship 2: Hull UK City of Culture 2017 and political culture, post-Brexit
As Hull prepared for its year as UK City of Culture in 2017, the city voted to leave the European Union with about 68% of the vote in the referendum of 23rd June 2016. This is despite a University and student population, a proportion of middle class people who (presumably) voted Remain, plus those working in international corporations and businesses who would (probably) recognise that their interests would be protected by voting Remain. Further, this support was despite the city's history as a longstanding port linked into international circuits of exchange of trade, people, ideas, money and commodities. Initial analysis has identified the leave vote as based on disenfranchised low income social groups left behind by globalisation and austerity, or suggested that part of the English middle classes voted leave due to fear and uncertainty about their economic status.
This PhD project explores the impact of the Brexit vote upon Hull's year as UK City of Culture and its aftermath, and upon the future of the wider City of Culture process in the UK and its place making agendas.
First, the project will explore why Hull's communities rejected structures that enshrined more internationalist, outward looking perspectives and links, and it asks whether, and how, this will be reflected through their subsequent engagements with City of Culture. Second, what does the Brexit context mean for future City of Culture bids or designations involving other English cities? Will they alter their internationalist agendas? Will they feel obliged to celebrate the introverted, local and ‘traditional' more than previously to engage local people?
Finally, the project will explore what this means for place making. How can places be remade, revived and progressed in a context where broader connections are eschewed? Can place making now hope to win the support of the majority of communities given the fractures within society revealed by the Brexit vote? Or does place making become an opportunity to push back against the introversion of Brexiteers (with all the risk that this is ‘experts' telling the public what is important, rather than listening to the public?)
For further information, email: Professor Franco Bianchini F.Bianchini@hull.ac.uk
The team of supervisors are interdisciplinary in their range: Professor David Atkinson (Cultural Geography, School of Environmental Sciences), Professor Franco Bianchini (Director of the Culture, Place and Policy Institute) and Professor Rüdiger Wurzel (Director of the Centre for European Union Studies).
To apply for these Scholarships please click on the Apply button below.
Full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarships will include fees at the ‘home/EU' student rate and maintenance (£14,553 in 2017/18) for three years, depending on satisfactory progress.
Full-time International Fee PhD Studentships will include full fees at the International student rate for three years, dependent on satisfactory progress.
PhD students at the University of Hull follow modules for research and transferable skills development and gain a Masters level Certificate, or Diploma, in Research Training, in addition to their research degree.
Successful applicants will be informed of the award as soon as possible after the deadline and by 8th May 2017 at the latest.
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