PhD Studentship: Decolonising the Pathways between Soil Science Agricultural Policy: An Archival Exploration of the Spatial-Temporal Linkages between Historical Soil and Land Use Appraisals and Development of Agricultural Policies in Caribbean Small Island Developing States
Start date: 1 October 2024
Application Deadline: 17:00 on Friday 28th June 2024.
Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, is pleased to announce the availability of a 3-year Vice Chancellor Doctoral Studentship.
Research Project Motivation
Scientists have led soil and land use evaluations to provide valuable information to colonial governments, informing agricultural, forestry, conservation policy decisions. While sovereign states have pushed to modernise agricultural systems, policy inertia has been associated with limited economic, technological and social transformation linked with legacies of structural injustice from colonial era.
This project aims to critically examine how historical soil and land use appraisals contributed to the development of key agricultural policies from the 1950s to present and lessons learned in Central America and the Caribbean.
In this PhD project you will:
You should have an aptitude and experience in qualitative research and inter- or trans-disciplinary approaches to research, with some experience in topics including but not limited to: soil surveys, archival methods, history, agroecology, human geography, political science, decolonisation, social-ecological systems, or archaeology.
Bursary available (subject to satisfactory performance):
Year 1: £18,622 (FT) or pro-rata (PT), Year 2 & 3: In line with UKRI rate,
In addition, the successful candidate will receive a contribution to tuition fees equivalent to the university’s Home rate, currently £4,712 (FT) or pro-rata (PT), for the duration of their scholarship. International applicants will be exempted from paying the remainder international tuition fee for the duration of their scholarship. This fee is subject to an annual increase.
If you are interested in applying, we encourage you contact June Po ([email protected] ) or Marcos Paradelo Perez ([email protected] ) for an informal discussion about this opportunity.
Please visit this page for the full application information and instructions:
“Decolonising the pathways between soil science agricultural policy: An exploration of the spatial-temporal linkages between historical soil and land use appraisals and development of agricultural policies in Caribbean Small Island Developing States ”
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