Dear all,
in collaboration with the University of Kent, we at SEI-Oxford are inviting
applications for candidates for a CASE funded PhD position. Please pass this
on to those you think may be interested.
Kind regards,
Sukaina
http://www.sei. se/index. php?page= jobitem&item= 5612
Project Title: A comparison of social learning and local decision making in change adaptation to water scarcity issues in South Africa and the UK using climate envelopes and knowledge elicitation
*Institutions* : Anthropology, University of Kent. Stockholm Environment Institute (Oxford).
*Supervisors* : Prof. Michael Fischer (Kent), Dr. Thomas E. Downing (SEI Oxford).
The Anthropology Department at the University of Kent has programmes including the PhD in Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Social Anthropology and Anthropology with Applied Computing. The Department received a 5 rating in the Research Assessment Exercise.
The SEI is a multidisciplinary, independent research organisation, with offices in Stockholm, Oxford, York, Boston, Tallinn, Bangkok and Cape Town. The Oxford office of the Stockholm Environment Institute is a dynamic multidisciplinary social science group researching climate adaptation and social learning.
The research for the CASE award relates to an existing EU project, (ADAM), within which the Oxford unit of the Stockholm Environment Institute is undertaking cases studies of climate change adaptation as a process of robust decision making and social learning. The project proposed for the +3 CASE studentship is comparison of social learning and local decision making in change adaptation to water scarcity issues in South Africa and the UK using the ClEAR Platform for analysis.
The CASE student will also develop their own research that will contribute to the larger project. The research will be based on documenting, analysing, building theory and evaluating models relating to organisational knowledge and its creation, representation, transmission and adaptation, particularly with respect to social learning, interaction, and networks.
We are looking for a dynamic individual who is interested in independent research and policy advice. We place great emphasis on linking an understanding of action at the local scale to the drivers and institutions that shape global policy.
Sukaina Bharwani
Research Fellow
Stockholm Environment Institute
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