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Community Resilience To Extreme Weather Events Through Improved Local Decision
Making
Research Centre for the Built and Human Environment / School of the Built
Environment
Applications are invited for a PhD research studentship at the Research
Institute of the Built and Human Environment, School of the Built Environment
University of Salford.
This project offers an exciting opportunity to work in the 6* RAE rated research
institute of the Built and Human Environment. The 3 year doctoral studentship
(funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - EPRSC) will
provide a maintenance grant and cover all approved tuition fees.
The research will focus on the coping strategies of small and medium scale
enterprises (SMEs) in responding to extreme weather events. This will involve
literature reviews, surveys, case studies and contributing to action research
studies with SMEs to understand the characteristics of SME coping strategies,
their adaptive capacities, resilience, barriers in implementing various coping
measures etc., The PhD research student will be working in close collaboration
with research fellows, research assistants and other PhD students from various
universities. The 3-year research project has several interim and final
deliverables, with critical milestone activities to be achieved in the interim.
The three-year project will commence in February 2008.
Eligibility & How to Apply:
We invite applications from potential UK, EU and International students who have
a 2.1 or above Bachelors Degree in any Built Environment discipline. The
prospective student should have the ability to work independently as well as a
member of a team and possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Further, the research will involve frequent travel between Manchester and London
(case study site) and the candidate should be willing to undertake frequent
extensive travel to attend project meetings and for data collection (all travel
costs will be reimbursed). It is desirable that the candidate have:
(i) Relevant industrial experience;
(ii) Previous experience / research in any of the areas of disaster management,
extreme weather events, SME development.
The closing date for applications is Friday 25 January 2008.
The successful candidates will be expected to take up the studentship in
February 2008 (or possibly earlier if mutually convenient).
Further information:
For further information on the School of the Built Environment see
Http://www.sobe.salford.ac.uk
Making
Research Centre for the Built and Human Environment / School of the Built
Environment
Applications are invited for a PhD research studentship at the Research
Institute of the Built and Human Environment, School of the Built Environment
University of Salford.
This project offers an exciting opportunity to work in the 6* RAE rated research
institute of the Built and Human Environment. The 3 year doctoral studentship
(funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - EPRSC) will
provide a maintenance grant and cover all approved tuition fees.
The research will focus on the coping strategies of small and medium scale
enterprises (SMEs) in responding to extreme weather events. This will involve
literature reviews, surveys, case studies and contributing to action research
studies with SMEs to understand the characteristics of SME coping strategies,
their adaptive capacities, resilience, barriers in implementing various coping
measures etc., The PhD research student will be working in close collaboration
with research fellows, research assistants and other PhD students from various
universities. The 3-year research project has several interim and final
deliverables, with critical milestone activities to be achieved in the interim.
The three-year project will commence in February 2008.
Eligibility & How to Apply:
We invite applications from potential UK, EU and International students who have
a 2.1 or above Bachelors Degree in any Built Environment discipline. The
prospective student should have the ability to work independently as well as a
member of a team and possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Further, the research will involve frequent travel between Manchester and London
(case study site) and the candidate should be willing to undertake frequent
extensive travel to attend project meetings and for data collection (all travel
costs will be reimbursed). It is desirable that the candidate have:
(i) Relevant industrial experience;
(ii) Previous experience / research in any of the areas of disaster management,
extreme weather events, SME development.
The closing date for applications is Friday 25 January 2008.
The successful candidates will be expected to take up the studentship in
February 2008 (or possibly earlier if mutually convenient).
Further information:
For further information on the School of the Built Environment see
Http://www.sobe.salford.ac.uk