2 PhD studentships with the SURFACE Inclusive Design Research Centre I'DGO
(Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors) Consortium
Applications are invited for 2 full-time PhD studentships in the SURFACE Inclusive Design Research Centre at the University of Salford. Each studentship is attached to research being carried out by the EPSRC-funded I'DGO Consortium (see www.idgo.ac. uk).
The Consortium, including WISE (Wellbeing in Sustainable Environments) research unit at Oxford Brookes University, and OPENspace - the research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments, at Edinburgh College of Art / Heriot-Watt University, has won funding for a second phase of research beginning January 2007.
I'DGO has a continuing aim to identify effective ways of ensuring the outdoor environment is designed inclusively, to improve the quality of life of older people.
As an I'DGO PhD student, you will contribute to the aspects of the I'DGO research being carried out by SURFACE - i.e. investigating the implications of the design, siting and laying of tactile (blister and corduroy) paving for older people.
The research will involve: literature reviews, focus groups with older people, on-site observation of older people using tactile paving, interviews with older people whilst using tactile paving in local environments, and measurement of tactile paving at 54 case study sites.
You will be expected to contribute to the collection of the fieldwork data, analysis of the data, presentation of findings at seminars and conferences and writing of reports and research papers. The studentship requires daily attendance at the University and a 35 hour working week on the main project.
As well as contributing to the main research, you will identify an aspect of research for individual study for the purposes of gaining a PhD degree. The data for the PhD research will be collected alongside the data for the main project. The selected topic for the PhD may be directly related to the main project, or more broadly to the discipline of inclusive design. Initial ideas on the proposed topic area for a PhD should be submitted with the studentship application.
Applicants should have a good undergraduate degree or master's degree. A built environment background (for example planning, landscape, geography, architecture or urban studies) is welcomed but not mandatory. An interest in inclusive design and an aptitude for research are essential.
The studentship is suitable for UK and EU students and provides full tuition fees and living costs at the standard EPSRC rate (living costs of* £12,300*a year, tax-free). An international studentship may be supported depending on the quality of the applicant.
*The EPSRC guidelines for postgraduate studies are available at: *
http://www.epsrc. ac.uk.
The studentship provides funding for a period of three years, commencing early 2007. Interested applicants should submit (either by post or email) a curriculum vitae and a one page outline of proposed PhD research to
*Professor Marcus Ormerod,
SURFACE Inclusive Design Research Centre,
The Built and Human Environment Research Institute,
The University of Salford,
4th Floor, Maxwell Building,
Salford, M5 4WT.
*Applicants should ensure that they obtain confirmation of receipt of their application.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Marcus Ormerod, m.ormerod@salford. ac.uk. Further information on SURFACE is available at www.surface. salford.ac. uk, and on the Research Institute for the Built and Human Environment at www.buhu.salford. ac.uk
Closing date for receipt of applications is *Friday 2nd February 2007 *
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