PhD scholarship – Mobile ecologies, complex landscapes: Cultural environmental research to understand and enhance invasive plant management in high amenity rural areas $AUS24653 per year (3 years max)

A fully funded PhD scholarship worth $AUS24,653 per year for three years is available in the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research  in the School of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Wollongong on a project entitled: “Mobile ecologies, complex landscapes: Cultural environmental research to understand and enhance invasive plant management in high amenity rural areas”.

This project is funded by a Discovery grant from the Australian Research Council to Dr Nicholas Gill and Dr Laurie Chisholm. The successful applicant will be required to enrol as soon as possible in 2013.

The project is to examine management and governance of invasive plants in high amenity rural areas in Australia characterised by diverse landowners (e.g. farmers, lifestylers) and land uses. The successful student will be responsible for research with landholders including use of contemporary qualitative fieldwork methods such as participant mapping and interviews, and/or a survey. The project aims to integrate this social data with remotely sensed and other spatial data and applicants should be willing to embrace the challenges this will entail. Funds are available to support research and field expenses as well as conference attendance.

Applications are sought from suitably qualified candidates with at least an Honours degree Second Class, Division One, and/or a Masters by Research degree in human geography, rural geography/sociology/anthropology, natural resource management, environmental social science or related disciplines. Applicants will need to demonstrate research training such as evident in a substantial thesis characterised by primary research.

Applicants should initially submit a letter outlining their suitability for this research and the nature of their research training and any thesis completed as part of their study so far, a CV, and academic transcripts for all degrees.

Send these documents to Dr Nicholas Gill at the email address below. Due to the Australian summer break receipt will not be acknowledged until after 20/1/13.

The successful applicant will be enrolled in to a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Wollongong.

The scholarship is open to Australian and International applicants.

For further information about the project, please contact Dr Nicholas Gill, School of Earth and Environmental Science and Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia, Ph: +61 2 4221 4165, ngill@uow.edu.au.

Further information about the University, SEES, and AUSCCER can be found viahttp://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/index.html.

Dr. Nicholas Gill

School of Earth and Environmental Science and Australian Centre for Cultural Enviromental Research

University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia

Ph: 02 4221 4165

Fax: 02 4221 4250

Skype: nicholas-gill1

Email: ngill@uow.edu.au

Twitter: DrNickGill

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Head of Postgraduate Studies - SEES