Daria Shapovalova
8 months ago
Environmental decision-making and sustainability Aberdeen University in United Kingdom
Degree Level
PhD
Field of study
Environmental Science
Funding
Full funding availableDeadline
December 31, 2026
Country
United Kingdom
University
University of Aberdeen
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Keywords
Environmental Science
Sociology
Geography
Social Science
Wave Energy
Liberal Arts
Energy Transition
Environmental Governance
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Spatiotemporal Analysis
Coastal Ecology
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Full funding including tuition fees and living expenses is available for this position. The scholarship covers all educational costs and provides a monthly stipend.
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We are seeking a motivated PhD student to focus on developing innovative frameworks to enable and evaluate inter/transdisciplinary research for transformative environmental decision-making. This project will explore how diverse academic disciplines and stakeholder perspectives can be integrated to address urgent sustainability issues. The successful candidate will work at the intersection of environmental science, social science, arts, and research methodology, contributing to the design of tools and strategies that foster effective collaboration and impactful outcomes.
This PhD is directly associated with a recently funded UKRI project - TRANSitions In Energy For Coastal Communities Over Time And Space (TRANSECTS; www.transects.org ). TRANSECTS will combine natural and social sciences with arts and humanities to apply an inter/transdisciplinary spatial-temporal lens, interrogating the shifts out of and into systems of marine energy production and their implications for coastal sustainability and resilience. It takes a place-based approach: exploring differences across geographical scales (micro to macro), between mainland and island communities and different UK regions. Our three case studies - the Humber Estuary, Orkney Islands, and east-coast Scotland (Aberdeen to Edinburgh) - have all experienced these marine energy transitions. It is expected that the PhD will use this project as an indicative case example. There may also be an opportunity to also assess other projects funded by the same call (Resilient UK Coastal Communities and Seas Programme).