Fully Funded EPSRC PhD studentship on population stability and residential mobility in London

Tweet    Fully Funded EPSRC PhD studentship on population stability and residential mobility in London     There is an excellent opportunity to apply for a fully funded 4-year EPSRC PhD studentship at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, focusing on the long term prospects of large urban residential development initiatives in London in […]

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Call for abstracts – PopFest 2016: The 24th Annual Population Postgraduate Conference

Tweet  4th – 6th July 2016   University of Manchester   PopFest is an annual Population Studies conference for postgraduate students organised by fellow postgraduates. It provides an excellent opportunity to bring together researchers from various Social Science disciplines such as Demography, Human Geography, Urban Planning, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Social Statistics, Politics and other related […]

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Dual PhD opportunities: University of Liverpool (UK) and National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)

Tweet  This is to let you know about two PhD opportunities. They are dual PhDs and will be awarded by the University of Liverpool (UK) and National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan).   The successful applicant will spend at least one year (of a maximum total four years) in each institution. The funding for this programme […]

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PhD Studentships at LSHTM

TweetESRC Studentships at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine We are accepting applications now for social science and public health PhD and MSc funding ESRC 1+3 studentships are available in the Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health and theFaculty of Public Health & Policy for social science research in the following areas: Demography – Demography & Health; […]

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PhD opportunity – Aberystwyth University

TweetPhD Studentship in Human Geography Contemporary European Diasporas in Wales Supervisors Dr Rhys Dafydd Jones (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University) Professor Rhys Jones (Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University) The studentship is supported by the ESRC Doctoral Training Centre for Wales and will involve opportunities for engagement, networking, shared training and possible […]

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PhD Studentship at UCL – “Open data for improved geodemographic classifications”

TweetAn opportunity has arisen for a student to undertake Ph.D. research at the University College London Doctoral Training Centre on a retail topic relevant to the ‘Retail Research and Data’ initiative. The work will be co-sponsored by the Co-Operative Group Limited and will investigate “Open data for improved geodemographic classifications”. An outline summary of the […]

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PopFest 2012 – Loughborough University

Tweet PopFest is an annual population studies conference for postgraduate students organised by fellow postgraduates. PopFest has been organised by various universities with the support of sponsors for nineteen years. The twentieth PopFest is to be held at Loughborough University from the 21st – 23rd June and will reflect on the past 20 years of […]

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PhD Studentship – University of Leeds

TweetGeographical, social and area type mobility:  trajectories of selective sorting over time by health status and ethnic group ESRC White Rose DTC Network Studentship – University of Leeds, School of Geography Session 2012-2013 – Closing Date 17 February 2012 Principal Supervisior: Dr Paul Norman, University of Leeds Co-Supervisor: Dr Dimitris Ballas, University of Sheffield   […]

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PhD Studentships at Leeds

TweetESRC WHITE ROSE DTC NETWORK STUDENTSHIPS 2012/13 Collaborative Excellence in International Research ESRC WR DTC Network Studentships Available at the University of Leeds ESRC White Rose DTC Network Studentships promote collaboration across Yorkshire’s leading research universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. Each university is offering 4 ESRC WR DTC Network Studentships in Session 2012/13.  Each […]

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Winners of the 2011 Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize announced

This year we received 6 entries to the Joanna Stillwell Undergraduate Dissertation Prize.  These came from the Universities of Exeter, Southampton, Leeds, Nottingham, Durham and Liverpool. The dissertations underline the range of subjects covered by undergraduate population geographers, with topics including: Class and access to higher education Geography of attitudes towards alcohol consumption Growth and change of a New Town (Milton Keynes) […]

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