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The international multi award-winning School of Art, Design and Architecture, at the University of Huddersfield, is delighted to announce 20 competitive PhD Scholarships for 2015. These scholarships will support successful candidates to develop their research, whilst also providing opportunities to gain career-enhancing teaching experience and teaching-related skills. The School’s mission is to foster the next generation of creative researchers, and boasts a dynamic and interactive learning community that allows staff and students to nurture, develop and exploit their talents.

Topics of Interest

The School of Art, Design and Architecture engages in state-of-the-art research that crosses interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary boundaries, applications are invited which fit within the following established areas of research:

- Build environment and design innovation
- Disaster resilience
- Urban design, architecture and sustainability
- And many more

Within Disaster Resilience research theme, applications are welcome to support multi- and interdisciplinary strategies that develop the capacity of a system, community or society in order to reach and maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure following a disaster. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

- Interrogate the term disaster resilience from the perspective of the social/political, economic and physical sciences, and across national boundaries;
- Identify the critical social, economic, and physical factors that enable a system, community or society potentially exposed to hazards to maintain an acceptable level of functioning and structure;
- Define and develop a set of measures that can be used to assess the critical social, economic and physical factors that underpin disaster resilience;
- New mechanisms to input planning & designing solutions that help create a resilient community;
- Understanding disaster risk – the development of innovative national and local policies and practices for disaster risk management;
- Strengthen early warning and preparedness systems, motivated by the increase in disaster events; and contingency planning and resource management

Deadlines

The deadline for the receipt of applications is dependent on proposed start date:
- For April 2015 start date End Dec 2014
- For October 2015 start date End Jun 2015
Please note, the number of Scholarships available for Oct 2015 start will be dependent on the number successful awarded. Further details on other topics of interest, funding information , eligibility criteria and how to apply are available at: