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As some of you may know, the University of Stirling is advertising a number of funded, interdisciplinary PhD studentships within several different topics or 'clusters'. Several of BERG staff members are involved in some of these clusters. For example, Sharon,
Clare, Gema and I are involved in the cluster "Nature Emergency - Interdisciplinary Responses by Active Citizens". </div>
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Within this cluster (please see a more detailed description of the potential PhD topics, as well as a<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration:none;display:inline !important" class="ContentPasted2"> link summarising the cluster,</span> below
this email) there is a number of potential PhD topics related to animal behaviour, human-animal interactions, conservations, and climate change. </div>
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If you are looking for a PhD and are interested in one of these topics, please get in touch with one of us - we will be happy to provide more details about these studentships and specific projects. Please also pass this on to anyone that might be interested
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Natuere Emergency potential PhD topics:</div>
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<span style="mso-list:ignore"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-fareast-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><span style="mso-list:Ignore" class="ContentPasted1">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"" class="ContentPasted1"> <span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.1200008392334px;font-family:Times;color:black" class="ContentPasted1">Wildlife
Response Lab: Response-Making via Human Interactions with Nature<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:Times;color:black" class="ContentPasted1">Human-wildlife conflict has been at the centre of major global challenges and disasters, such as environmental degradation, climate change, and pandemics. Causes of this conflict include limited
scientific knowledge and limited public awareness of how human behaviour can affect wildlife. The Wildlife Response Lab will address this problem by<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">studying human-wildlife
interactions and by involving students and communities in this research</b>. Themes will include animal behaviour and cognition, human-animal interactions, and<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">anthropogenic
impacts on animal behaviour</b>, as well as how interacting with wildlife and participating in research influences people’s attitudes to global challenges. Research will occur both on and off-campus, using transdisciplinary methodologies (citizen science,
co-design) and cutting-edge technology to monitor wildlife (e.g., camera traps, thermal imaging). These innovative initiatives will serve dual goals of engaging the community in research, including data collection, and raising their awareness about, and responsiveness
towards, the Nature Emergency.<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span><b><i><span style="font-family:Times" class="ContentPasted1">Supervisors</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family:Times" class="ContentPasted1">: Pawel Fedurek,
Gema Martin-Ordas, Clare Andrews, Sharon Kessler (FNS Psyc); Elisa Fuentes-Montemayor, Brad Duthie, Jen Dickie (FNS Biol), Andrew Smith (FAH), David Comerford (SMS)<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></i></p>
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Response Lab: Young People’s Response-Making to the Nature Emergency<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:Times;color:black" class="ContentPasted1">Young people will be most affected by current and future impacts of the Nature Emergency. Youth are often at the forefront of activism, while also suffering feelings of anxiety, fear, disempowerment,
and betrayal. The Youth Response Lab will study the experiences of, and approaches taken by, young people at multiple scales as responses to the Nature Emergency. Research will investigate the<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">drivers
of eco-anxiety and eco-grief,<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></b>including exposure to climate impacts, feelings of betrayal by governments and businesses,<b><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></b>and<b><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></b>their
impact upon intergenerational relationships. We will examine the<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">role that eco-anxiety plays in motivating or paralysing</b><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span>individual
behaviour change, activism and community-based responses. We will explore<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">how young people engage with and contribute to</b><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span>climate
and nature-based education, social and mental health services, empowerment via school-based civic action, school- and university-community linking, intergenerational eco-action, or social entrepreneurship. This will include<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">developing
knowledge of health- and educational co-benefits<i><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></i></b>of youth response-making, and<b class="ContentPasted1"><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span>rights-based understandings
of young people’s views and agencies</b><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span>and intergenerational understandings of rights and climate justice.<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b><i class="ContentPasted1">Supervisors</i></b><i class="ContentPasted1">:
Clare Andrews, Sharon Kessler, Gozde Ozakinci (FNS Psyc), Lena Dominelli, Sandra Engstrom (FoSS Soc), Greg Mannion (FoSS Edu), Tracy Kirk (FAH), Craig Anderson (SMS)<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></i><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></p>
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Economy Lab: Rights-Based Response-Making in Geopolitical Ecologies<o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:Times;color:black" class="ContentPasted1">The appropriation of nature into global economic value chains lies at the core of many aspects of the Nature Emergency. The Political Economy Lab will investigate how<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">the
economic use value of nature</b><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span>– including the<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">resources and ecosystem services</b>provided for society – intersects
with the<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">wider socio-cultural and political dimensions of production and consumption</b>. Of particular interest are ethical arguments about nature possessing non-anthropocentric
intrinsic value and non-human species having moral interests and rights. These could increasingly be reflected in<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">decision-making processes</b>, giving due recognition to both
human and non-human realities.<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black" class="ContentPasted1">It is also important to consider how</span><span style="font-family:Times;color:black" class="ContentPasted1"><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span>uneven
processes of development accompanied by the commodification and neoliberalisation of nature lead to<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">unsustainable use of resources</b><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span>(e.g.,
water, land, timber, rare minerals, etc.) and to the marginalisation of both human and animal communities, thus endangering a<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">sustainable co-existence</b>. This Lab will leverage
a combination of social science and humanities methodologies in local, national, and global settings to explore divergent ideas of the scale and character of the Nature Emergency and<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><b class="ContentPasted1">how
economics, politics, and culture shape human responses</b><span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span>to it.<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></span><b><i><span style="font-family:Times;color:black" class="ContentPasted1">Supervisors</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Times;color:black" class="ContentPasted1">:<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span><i class="ContentPasted1">Hannes
Stephan, Clemens Hoffmann (FAH), Danny Campbell, Craig Anderson, David Comerford (SMS), Brad Duthie (FNS Biol), Pawel Fedurek,<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted1"> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-family:Times" class="ContentPasted1">Gema
Martin-Ordas (FNS Psyc), Lena Dominelli, Sandra Engstrom (FoSS)</span></i><span style="font-family:Times;color:black"><o:p class="ContentPasted1"> </o:p></span></p>
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