Apologies for cross-posting.
PhD and Post-Doc Opportunities with Prof Anna Davies (TCD) on her ERC-funded SHARECITY project.
Regards
Pauline
From: A forum for critical and radical geographers [mailto:CRIT-GEOG-FORUM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]
On Behalf Of Anna Davies
Sent: Tuesday, 8 December 2015 9:28 PM
To: CRIT-GEOG-FORUM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: PhD and postdoctoral opportunities, Geography, Trinity College Dublin
With apologies for cross-postings, please see below final call for three dynamic researchers to work on an ERC-funded project
SHARECITY: Assessing the practice and sustainability potential of city-based food sharing economies, based within the Geography Department, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. Post summaries are provided below. Full details available
from jobs.tcd.ie or Anna Davies:
daviesa@tcd.ie – All deadlines 18th December at 12 noon (Irish Standard Time)
1. PhD Studentship: 4 years, tax-free stipend (€16,000pa) and payment of EU level academic fees
2. 2 x Postdoctoral researchers: 2 years, IUA level 2, point 1 salary scale €37,750 pro rata
PhD Post Summary
Applications are invited for a four year ERC (European Research Council) funded PhD studentship based at the Department of Geography at Trinity College, the University of Dublin, under the supervision of Professor
Anna Davies and as part of the ERC-funded project SHARECITY: Assessing the practice and sustainability potential of city-based food sharing economies. The successful applicant will become a core member of the SHARECITY team (which will include the Principal
Investigator, at least 4 postdoctoral researchers and a Research Assistant). This PhD project will contribute to the SHARECITY team’s conceptual and analytical development in the identification and classification of food sharing activities within cities globally.
The successful candidate will assist in the development of a global database of city-based food sharing and undertake an in-depth ethnographic study of food sharing within one global city identified by the Principal Investigator. Research will include site
visits, participant observation, interviews and netnographies of sharers (donors, facilitators and recipients) as well as co-designing and trialling a sustainability assessment toolkit with sharers and sharing regulators within the case study city. The final
component of the PhD will include conducting a backcasting experiment with key stakeholders regarding the future of food sharing in cities. The successful candidate will be hosted in the Department of Geography, School of Natural Science and will become a
member of Environmental Governance Research Group and the Future Cities Research Centre. General enquires concerning this post can be addressed to
daviesa@tcd.ie
Post-doctoral Posts Summary
The Department of Geography at Trinity College, the University of Dublin, is seeking two Post-Doctorate Researchers to work with Professor Anna Davies on the ERC-funded project SHARECITY: Assessing the practice and
sustainability potential of city-based food sharing economies. The successful applicants will be core members of the SHARECITY team (which will also include the Principal Investigator, further Post-Doctorate Researchers, a PhD student and a Research Assistant).
The post-doctoral researchers will contribute to the first two phases of the SHARECITY project, specifically focusing on a) conceptual and analytical development in the identification and classification of food sharing activities within cities to culminate
in the development of a global database of 100 cities and b) in-depth ethnographic studies of food sharing within selected global cities identified through the database. The research will include site visits, participant observation, interviews and netnographies
of sharers (donors, facilitators and recipients). The successful candidates will be hosted in the Department of Geography, School of Natural Science and will become members of Environmental Governance Research Group and the Future Cities Research Centre:
https://www.tcd.ie/futurecities/. General enquires concerning these posts should be addressed to
daviesa@tcd.ie
"To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing" (Raymond Williams)
Recent Publications:
Anna R. Davies & Ruth Doyle (2015)
Waterwise: Extending Civic Engagements for Co-creating more Sustainable Washing Futures, ACME: An international e-journal for critical geographies. 14(2):390-400 Free open access:
http://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/1167
Anna R. Davies & Ruth Doyle (2015) Transforming Household Consumption: From Backcasting to HomeLabs Experiments,
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105:2, 425-436. Free on-line access:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00045608.2014.1000948#abstract
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Anna R. Davies
Professor of Geography, Environment & Society
Director Environmental Governance Research Group
Department of Geography, School of Natural Sciences
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Dublin 2, Ireland.
+353 1 896 1554
www.tcd.ie
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin is ranked 1st in Ireland
and in the top 100 world universities by the QS World University Rankings.
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