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 ...