The Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University is inviting prospective PhD students to apply for the recently announced postgraduate scholarships from the ESRC, the Department of Transport and Government Scotland (see below) with the Centre’s support. 

Applicants will be keen to develop sociologically innovative concepts of mobility, as with the multi-disciplinary and dynamized sociological perspective of the ‘mobilities paradigm’ that is being developed at CeMoRe. For example, projects might focus on low carbon transport in countries such as China and their implications for the UK ; on how social networks and social practices evolve and with what implications for the circulation of things and people; or on developing ‘mobile’ methods of social enquiry.  Successful students will join the department on a +3 postgraduate programme, and so applicants should already have received an appropriate one year masters training sufficient to meet ESRC requirements.  The PhD will be supervised by Dr David Tyfield and one other member of CeMoRe, depending on the particular focus of the research.

Mobilities research is an area of exceptional growth of academic and policy debate and interest, and CeMoRe, under the leadership of Prof John Urry, has already established a distinct market niche combining leading social theory with grounded, policy-oriented empirical research.  It is also part of the newly created UK Transport Research Centre, on which this ESRC programme is focused and is a world leader in the kind of social scientific research for which this call is inviting applications.

Interested students should contact Dr Tyfield as soon as possible (deadline 13th November) with a suggested abstract for their PhD research and their CVs.  Successful students will then be chosen quickly, so that the outline application to the ESRC can be completed with CeMoRe’s assistance in time for the 18th December deadline.

For more information about CeMoRe, please see the centre’s website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/cemore/index.php

To contact Dr David Tyfield: d.tyfield@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr David Tyfield

Lecturer
Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe)
Sociology Department
Bowland North
Lancaster University
LA1 4YT
Tel: (+44) 1524 594187
Fax: (+44) 1524 594256