Design and sustainability
The deadline for 2012 Doctoral College Studentships has now passed.
The Brighton Doctoral College is pleased to welcome applications from self-funded or externally sponsored students for programmes of research in this or a closely related area, beginning from September 2012. Applications are welcome from students wishing to study full time or part time, and applications are welcome from students in employment who have the support of their employers.
- Based in the Faculty of Arts
- Supervisors: Dr Jonathan Chapman; Dr Joan Farrer; Dr Jyri Kermik.
Application deadline
The university cannot guarantee that students can start at their requested date unless deadlines are met.
- UK/EU students: The deadline for the university to receive applications for an entry date of October is the 1 August, for January entry it is the 1 November and for May it is the 1 March.
- International students: The deadline for the university to receive applications for an entry date of October is the 1 June, for January entry it is the 1 September and for May it is the 1 January.
Proposals are invited across the fields of architecture, design, materials, engineering, urbanism and cultural and human geography to examine theory and or practices relating to design and sustainability.
Proposals which address the production, consumption and use of materials and products, the meaning of objects, materials, the built environment, landscapes and the effective and affective impacts on sustainable development locally and globally are encouraged. The PhD project also offers opportunities to engage with the development of more sustainable commercial materials, processes and reuse, in order to inform producer/consumer understanding and knowledge exchange by articulating and identifying the possibilities and benefits of using eco-materials from a regional resource base. We would also welcome proposals that seek to give ‘added value’ to design proposals through the innovative use of waste materials, from virgin, up-cycled and recycled sources of manmade and natural materials through the development of material structures and design prototypes.
Successful candidates will benefit from a supervisory team with a breadth of expertise which includes emotionally durable design, design for behavioural change, values based indicators, supply chain and production expertise, community and social planning, media and design history, all underpinned with extensive workshop and lab facilities located throughout the institution.
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