PhD Studentship opportunity currently open for UK/Home applicants looking at Underground Futures: Place-based decisions for NetZero
Deadline: 24th March 2025
More Info: The transition to net zero is at the forefront of UK Policy with calls for rapid decarbonisation across all sectors including energy supply. Whilst much of this focus is on surface activities (e.g. drive for more renewable technologies and carbon saving solutions such as Carbon Capture and reinvestment in nuclear), the role of underground space for this transition is often neglected. Reimagining underground resources and how these connect to surface needs such as affordable energy, will be vital if net zero is to be achieved successfully. This interdisciplinary studentship will take a place-based approach to exploring the role the underground/subsurface might play in the transition to NetZero and the socio-political questions that emerge at the surface. It will address interlocking research questions focused on ‘Resources, Community and Place-making, and Governance’ and will use a mixed-methods approach including qualitative, quantitative and spatial techniques, as its methodology.
Supervisors: Dr Alexandra Gormally-Sutton (LEC, Lancaster University), Prof Duncan Whyatt (LEC, Lancaster University) and Hazel Napier (British Geological Survey)
How to apply: Funded PhD Opportunities – Lancaster University