Funded PhD Studentship in Social Futures at Lancaster University

FUNDED PHD STUDENTSHIP IN SOCIAL FUTURES AT LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

Lancaster University is seeking exceptional people to help set up and develop a major new Institute for Social Futures, co-directed by Professors John Urry and Linda Woodhead. This interdisciplinary Institute is concerned with examining the nature of multiple, complex and interdependent social futures.

Applications are invited for a funded full-time PhD studentship to start October 2015, which will last for 3 years. The candidate will have a Masters degree in a relevant discipline and develop a topic relevant to ‘social futures’. You will be supervised by two relevant colleagues and will be based in one or more departments.

Lancaster University is consistently highly ranked (top 10) in the UK university league tables and is in the top 1% of universities globally.

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ALH850/phd-studentship-social-futures/

For further information please contact Professor John Urry (j.urry@lancaster.ac.uk) and Professor Linda Woodhead (l.woodhead@lancaster.ac.uk)