[ecrea] Funded PhDs in Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics at University of Brighton, UK

The Centre for Research in Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics 
(SECP) (https://www.brighton.ac.uk/secp/index.aspx) is currently 
inviting applications for fully-funded doctoral studentships to join our 
PhD programme at the University of Brighton. The SECP centre’s mission 
is to rethink knowledge and practice in ways that are sustainable and 
socially just by producing world leading and innovative research at the 
intersection of space, environment and culture. We particularly welcome 
proposals in the following cross-cutting areas:

*Spaces, Power and Justice* 
<https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=YCXZVNKL7EqsBcWYfnlGuEg_TNhCdJeM1N4d2vUMaJwimWyytxLUCAFodHRwczovL3d3dy5icmlnaHRvbi5hYy51ay9zZWNwL3Jlc2VhcmNoLWFyZWFzL3NwYWNlcy1wb3dlci1hbmQtanVzdGljZS9pbmRleC5hc3B4>Exploring 
the role of space and place in affecting power relations; transnational 
resistance, peasant resistance, food sovereignty; political ecologies of 
resource extractivism; urban and transnational mobilities and 
immobilities, gendered and generational mobilities and urban streets as 
uneven spaces of social interaction and design; geographies of 
sexualities and gender, queer geographies and feminist/queer spaces and 
spatiality; social and psychological anthropology of violence; Afghan 
migration in the UK and Pakistan; critical engagement with mental 
'disorders'; geographies of sport, leisure and popular culture; seaside 
towns and coastal regeneration; British Asian identities, communities 
and popular culture; football and its communities; social and cultural 
geography of the seaside, coast and coastal waters; intersections 
between ethnicity and age(ing); spatial manifestations of migration and 
multiculture; gender-based violence and safekeeping; Islamophobia, 
security and citizenship socially engaged architectural practice

*Environmental futures, communication and sustainability* 
<https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=Y3T3YonwqBPfI1fTyKKgf3ds2EMJk27k0LjMitIMspF9-26ytxLUCAFodHRwczovL3d3dy5icmlnaHRvbi5hYy51ay9zZWNwL3Jlc2VhcmNoLWFyZWFzL2Vudi1mdXR1cmVzLWNvbW1zLWFuZC1zdXN0YWluYWJpbGl0eS9pbmRleC5hc3B4>**Addressing 
the urgent challenges of environmental issues and climate change through 
communication, media and/or design practices; innovative, creative and 
collaborative approaches to addressing local and global environmental 
challenges; using psychology, social sciences, arts and humanities to 
critically address climate change and sustainability; evaluating 
ecotherapy and nature-based interventions; studying human-animal 
relations and speciesism;  ‘smart’ technologies and big data as tools 
for change; zero deforestation pledges and political ecologies of 
post-oil palm landscapes; critical approaches to climate induced 
migration; climate activism and climate justice; participatory methods 
for climate engagement; feminist critiques and interventions.

**

*Embodiment, performance and process* 
<https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=VoRo_q3uRTVTB4RVdy2VcBvheXqokn7FjZLmlwjI5NN9-26ytxLUCAFodHRwczovL3d3dy5icmlnaHRvbi5hYy51ay9zZWNwL3Jlc2VhcmNoLWFyZWFzL2VtYm9kaW1lbnQtcGVyZm9ybWFuY2UtYW5kLXByb2Nlc3MvaW5kZXguYXNweA..>**New 
forms of cultural and political thought, in ontologies of process and 
emergence and in post-humanist and materialist feminist perspectives; 
the politics of embodiment, affect and emotion, spatial politics, 
embodied mobility and environmental subjectivities; infrastructure and 
energy: politics, aesthetics and space; theories of human and non-human 
agency, affect theory or new materialism; critical architectures; 
interdisciplinarities of architecture, archaeology and anthropology and 
the making of artefacts, especially drawings; urban common land; the 
visual and analogical foundations of design-centered disciplines; 
decolonial theory and development and post-development;decolonial 
political ecology; everyday performance of public urban space;literary 
architectural geographies;the affective, embodied and practiced politics 
of race, gender and sexuality; feminist political activism and protest; 
affect, embodiment and materiality; critiques of liberalism, 
neo-liberalism and neo-colonial capitalism.

Potential applicants are advised to identify a potential supervisor 
(https://www.brighton.ac.uk/secp/about-us/researchers/index.aspx) to 
work with in formulating their application, and to ensure that the ‘fit’ 
between the proposed project and the research context and environment at 
the University of Brighton is clearly articulated.

General enquiries can be made to Professor Julie Doyle 
((J.Doyle /at/ brighton.ac.uk)) 
<https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=dtfpctMVCjfsUlf5AKAbQd6keCtdzGyMIcZbgTxR0yt9-26ytxLUCAFtYWlsdG86ai5kb3lsZUBicmlnaHRvbi5hYy51ayk.>; 
Dr Lesley Murray ((L.Murray /at/ brighton.ac.uk)) 
<https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=jtqj26eAivqGvpqLYXLKEZgwWAmeQQ9jazI3Ey7bhZp9-26ytxLUCAFtYWlsdG86TC5NdXJyYXlAYnJpZ2h0b24uYWMudWsp> 
and Professor Kath Browne ((K.A.Browne /at/ brighton.ac.uk) 
<https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=5rMxElL7uRjVsalnwsW1xjMwbGZxsKHm3Ha0lUlcswB9-26ytxLUCAFtYWlsdG86Sy5BLkJyb3duZUBicmlnaHRvbi5hYy51aw..>)

The deadline for applications to study at the University of Brighton in 
October 2017 is *Monday 16th January 2017 *but it is important to make 
contact with a potential supervisor as soon as possible.

For further details see 
https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/funding-opportunities-and-studentships/index.aspx

Please note that studentships are only available to UK/EU applicants, 
with EU applicants only eligible for a fees-only award, unless they 
satisfy Research Council residency criteria. There are limited number of 
overseas studentships in Economics or Advanced Quantitative 
Methods.Please contact us if you are unsure of the studentships criteria.



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