PhD scholarships available with Mapping Edges as part of the ARC Discovery Project ‘Surfacing urban wetlands in two urban renewal sites in Sydney’

Fully funded for 3.5 years full time

Email CV and cover letter to Alexandra.crosby@uts.edu.au  by 8 April 2024.

Successful applicants will join the research team sharing knowledge between partners, with milestones for documenting and sharing outcomes of research-to-date, from the first year of the PhD.

Critical Visualisation of Water

Supervised by Alexandra Crosby, Sarah Jane Jones

Available to Domestic and International students

You will be skilled in design research and will pursue an independent research project to better understand how visualisation can contribute to better design and care for urban wetlands. This research will generate new visualisation strategies for connecting people to city ecologies.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply

Political Ecologies of Water

Supervised by James Goodman, Ilaria Vanni and Donna Houston (Macquarie)

Available to Domestic students only

You will be skilled in ethnographic research and will pursue an independent research project to better understand how communities living in Sydney’s renewing urban spaces can engage with local ecological contexts and complex histories of change.

You will be located at the FASS Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre (C-SERC), which focuses on inter-disciplinary social science research and hosts a wide range of research projects and researchers.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander are encouraged to apply.