We are advertising two fully funded 3.5-year PhD studentships at the University of Manchester, and would be most grateful if you could pass it on to any potential candidates. The focus is on climate-friendly retrofitting in residential housing, with a focus on everyday/organisational practices, and injustices/inequalities.
The work needs to be done primarily in the UK but can have an international component. The studentships are open to candidates from across the world:
- On‘Governing Housing Retrofit: The Role of Social Intermediaries‘, jointly supervised with Paul Tobin and Faye Wade, and in collaboration with the UK’s Energy Demand Research Centre (EDRC). Lots of opportunities for working with the diverse network of organisational actors embedded in the centre. More information can be found at: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/governing-housing-retrofit-the-role-of-social-intermediaries/?p166927
- On‘The Decarbonisation Divide: Emergent Socio-Spatial Inequalities on the Path to a Low-Carbon Future‘, jointly supervised with Rob Bellamy and Sangeetha Chandra-Shekeran, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne. This one involves a research stay at Melbourne, and many learning opportunities. More info at: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-decarbonisation-divide-emergent-socio-spatial-inequalities-on-the-path-to-a-low-carbon-future/?p154465
Both studentships are for a January 2025 entry, with a 16th of September 2025 application deadline.