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 Call for proposals - Storm Risk Mitigation through Improved Prediction and Impact Modelling
This £4·9m thematic programme directly relates to the delivery of NERC Natural Hazards theme - to enable better forecasting and mitigation of hydro-meteorological hazards - and UK Government’s strategic goals with respect to the adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change. This programme will contribute towards Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) objectives. This call is for proposals to address each of the three main deliverables of the programme, with up to £2·1m to address Numerical Weather Prediction, and up to £1·05m each to address Climate Science and Impacts. It is expected that three consortium-style grants will be funded, one to address each of the deliverables.
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Deadline: 4pm on 25 March 2010
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Leverhulme Trust Funding Opportunities
Early Career Fellowships
The Trust is offering up to 70 awards, which can be in any discipline, for 2010. They are intended for Researchers who do not hold a permanent post, but with the intention that the fellowship will help secure this. Applicants must be under 35 and the Trust will supply a maximum of £23,000 pa. Application materials for the 2010 competition are now available on the Trust’s web page.
Deadline: 4pm on 11 March 2010.
Major Research Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences
These awards are intended for well established and distinguished researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences and allow individuals to conduct an original research project over a 2 or 3 year period. The awards cover salary costs and research expenses up to £5000.
Deadline: 7 May 2010
Visiting Professorships
These are intended to enable distinguished academics to spend between 3 and 10 months in a UK university. Applications should be made by a member of staff based in the UK university who is also responsible for co-ordinating a programme of events associated with the visit. The total sum awarded depends on individual circumstances (commensurate with the salary of the professor), but covers maintenance travel and subsistence etc.
Deadline: 14 May 2010.
The next deadline for full applications for Research Project Grants and International networks is 21 March 2010 (NB outline applications can be submitted anytime but it can take 12 weeks for the Trust to reach a decision).
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News - British Academy Policy Centre
The Academy has recently established a Policy Centre with support from ESRC and AHRC with the aim of demonstrating how the humanities and social sciences can inform public policy. Among other things it will be producing reports, and holding briefings and events. Current work consists of a review of Family Patterns and Public Policy and a study with the Royal Society on Human Enhancement.
For more information, please go to the British Academy Policy Centre website.
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AHRC Funding Opportunities
Japan PhD placements
Opportunities now exist for current AHRC funded PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and research assistants to undertake short-term placements with the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU), Japan during 2010-11 as part of a joint UK/Japan Short-term Fellowship Programme.
Thanks to the AHRC/NIHU Memorandum of Understanding AHRC-funded scholars can have access to the world-class facilities that exist in NIHU facilities. The scholarships can last between three and six months, depending on the time required to complete the proposed research. Each fellowship needs to take place between 1 October 2010 and 30 September 2011.
The successful applicants will receive a contribution towards their flights costs and a monthly allowance in addition to their normal monthly stipend paid as part of their award holder funding.
NIHU consists of six Inter-University Research Institutes that support comprehensive academic research on culture and the humanities. Please click on the links below to view information on each institutes activities:
These institutes offer high quality research facilities for scholars with an interest in exploiting the extensive collections they hold. The AHRC scheme forms part of the NIHU programme of “Inter-institutional and External Joint Research” which aims to foster long-term durable links between countries and institutions engaged in the study of culture and the humanities.
More information and how to apply
Deadline: 5pm on 1 March 2010
Standard PhD Studentship Competition
The Studentship Competition provides postgraduate students studying at Research Organisations (ROs) in the UK with the opportunity to submit an individual proposal for an award.
More information
Deadline: 4pm on 6 May 2010
Feb 9th, 2010 @ 1:48 pm
Consultation - Responses to Environmental and Societal Challenges for our Unstable Earth (RESCUE)
The RESCUE project, ‘Responses to Environmental and Societal Challenges for our Unstable Earth’, needs to hear from those in the research and policy community who are involved with global change modeling and data. You are invited to participate in a survey we have created for this purpose.
The main goal of the RESCUE project is to develop an integrated response to global environmental change from natural, social and human sciences. The synergy between these sciences requires improvement in order to respond efficiently and effectively to societal and policy-relevant needs. New scientific issues of relevance to global change, particularly those of a transdisciplinary nature need to be articulated. The results should enable the scientific community, together with other key stakeholders, to develop medium to long-term strategies for future research activities and applications. It will contribute to a common strategic understanding and coordination in GEC research, to transforming education delivery, to sustainable governance systems for natural resources. Additionally, the project, if successful, can help shape future funding priorities of ESF.
The working group on methods and data is undertaking this survey specifically to identify core needs in GEC research, in particular, how to improve the representation of the human dimension in global change research, how to develop more policy-relevant integrated GEC models, how to analyse the dynamics of multi-level and complex governance systems for natural resources, and how best to develop shared databases and protocols.
The survey can be completed online on the website of The Integrated Assessment Society (TIAS - collaborator in this exercise). The survey takes anywhere from 15 - 45 mins to complete depending on how much detail you wish to provide. We will begin processing the results during the week of February 22nd, and will have a final report available in early April. If you participate, you will be provided with the results of this survey and the project as a whole.
Participate in the survey
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ESRC Seminar Series - 'Feminism and Futurity: New Times, New Spaces'
The series is being hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol and the first seminar is scheduled for Friday 26 March. There are travel grants to support student/early career attendance (details below).
Seminar 1 - Entrepreneurialising Gender
Date: Friday 26 March 2010 (10am-4pm)
Location: School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.
Speakers include Harriet Bradley, Sarah Hall, Miranda Joseph, and Wendy Larner:
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Gendered geographies of financial services training in the post-crisis City of London
Sarah Hall, University of Nottingham
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Gender and the Performance of Personal Finance
Miranda Joseph, University of Arizona
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The knowledge economy and beyond: gender transformations of production, reproduction and consumption
Harriet Bradley, University of Bristol
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Who Needs Cultural Intermediaries Indeed? Gendered Networks in the Designer Fashion Industry
Wendy Larner, University of Bristol
More information about the seminar series
Attendance at all events is free and lunch will be provided but prior registration is required to help with catering arrangements and overall numbers are limited. To register for the first seminar, please submit your details to Philip Nicholls as soon as possible.
We are pleased to announce that funds are available to support the travel costs of postgraduates, postdoctoral fellows and early career researchers at the seminars. In order to apply for one of these grants, please send your name, position, contact details and a statement of your research interests and why you wish to attend the seminar (50 words maximum) to Philip Nicholls.
Deadline for registration: Friday 19th March 2010 (at the very latest)
Deadline for grants: Monday 15th March 2010
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Postgraduate Research at University of Liverpool
The Latin American Studies programme (School of Cultures, Languages, and Area Studies) at the University of Liverpool has a limited number of grants to support graduate training - in the past we have had one studentship funded by the ESRC that covered our one-year MA programme (a “taught” programme) plus our three-year MPhil/PhD programme (a “research” programme) (there are some citizenship restrictions on the ESRC 1+3). We also have a Lucy Newton studentship that provides 5,000 pounds/year for the three years of our MPhil/PhD programme. Awards are competitive and granted on the basis of strong undergraduate marks, letters of recommendation, and a compelling research proposal.
Dr Steven Rubenstein invites proposals from students who would like to conduct research among the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon. The Shuar formed one of the first indigenous federations in South America, and remain at the vanguard of struggles against capitalism and the state. There are many interesting and important research opportunities:
- Activities of extractivist industries (e.g mining and petroleum)/Shuar resistance
- bilingual/bicultual education of children
- Shuar childhoods
- Shuar and the Plurinational Political Movement
- the relationship between Shuar and environmentalist NGOs
- Shuar immigrants in the United States
Ours is an interdisciplinary program. As an anthropologist there will be an emphasis on training in ethnographic methods, social theory, and Amazonian ethnology. Students will have a second supervisor from another discipline.
Enquiries are invited from students from a wide range of relevant disciplinary backgrounds and Dr Rubenstein is willing to work with any qualified, capable, and hard-working student to help craft a superior research proposal.
Dr Rubenstein’s research interests and contact details.
More information about the department
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Event - 21st Century Challenges - 'Not in My Back Yard'
Date: Wednesday 3rd March, 7pm
Location: RGS-IBG, London
The latest 21st Century Challenges event - ‘Not in My Back Yard’ is being held at the RGS soon. Please follow the links below to get more details.
More information
Book tickets
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Postgraduate Research Studentships on Climate Change at LSE
The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE, incorporating the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, is offering two fully funded MPhil/PhD studentships for entry in October 2010.
We are looking for graduates in the social sciences, or related disciplines, holding top-quality degrees from internationally recognised universities.
The studentships will cover full fees (for home/EU or overseas students) and annual living expenses, currently set at £15,290.
The Grantham Research Institute is the new home to climate change and environment research at LSE, bringing together international expertise from development studies, economics, environmental studies, finance, geography, international relations, law, management science, philosophy, political science, and statistics.
We will consider applications on any topics aligned with the research programmes of the institute. More information about these research programmes.
In addition, we welcome applications on the following topic specifically:
- The international politics/political economy of climate change
The proposed research project should be on the international politics or international political economy of climate change, preferably with a focus on climate diplomacy and international negotiations, multi-level climate governance, or the role of corporations and other non-state actors. Candidates should have a strong background in international relations, international political economy, or another related social science discipline.
To apply please send a 1-page proposal together with your CV to GRI PG Studentships.
Decisions will be made by a panel representing our interdisciplinary interests. The award will be made solely on outstanding academic merit and research potential. This relates not only to your past academic record, but also to an assessment of your chosen topic and to your likely aptitude to complete a PhD in the time allocated.
Short-listed candidates may be invited to attend an informal interview and if successful advised about making a formal application to LSE.
Awards will be available for a period of 3 or 4 years depending on experience, but annual renewal will be subject to satisfactory academic performance at the School.
Deadline: Noon on 26th March 2010
Feb 9th, 2010 @ 1:47 pm
IGU Quarterly Newsletter
The quarterly E-Newsletter produced by the International Geographical Union has been released.
January 2010 Newsletter
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