The full-time studentships are supported for 3 years and will start on 1 October 2024.
Project description
Building on our recent success in REF 2021, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business at the University of Plymouth is making a strategic investment in 6 Fully Funded Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs) and invites talented applicants to submit outstanding PhD research proposals and applications connecting with all our Place-based research in disciplines across the arts, humanities, and social sciences. We are particularly interested in projects that fit within the remit of our research excellence within one of the research project synopses listed in this link.
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Ocean Conservation Trust/University of Plymouth Collaborative Doctoral Award, ‘Shifting the Narrative on Ocean Conservation and Place-making in the UK’ -
National Marine Park/University of Plymouth Collaborative Doctoral Award, ‘Community Heritage in Coastal Communities: What the Sea Means to Me’ Marine Biological Association/University of Plymouth Collaborative Doctoral Award, ‘A Networked Ocean: historical archives and collections at the Marine Biological Association’
Successful candidates will join the diverse postgraduate research community of over 400 researchers who work across a variety of disciplines recognised as world-leading across the Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for People and their Economy (SHAPE) disciplines across our Schools. The Faculty has long been a national leader in fostering civic engagement focusing on creative industries and economies, placemaking, art and design practices, and social action research into the changing global societies and challenging real-world issues.