Degree type
PhD
Closing date
1 February 2025
Campus
Hobart
Citizenship requirement
Domestic / International
About the research project
Across the globe, calls for 'adaptation' and 'resilience' as viable responses to unmitigated global environmental change are now commonplace. These ideas are pervasive: incorporated into government strategies, private sector discourse, and non-government initiatives. However, there are significant, and emergent, limitations to discourses and practices of adaptation and resilience that remain unaddressed:
- Approaches to adaptation and resilience depend upon processes and systems that contribute to global environmental change.
- Individuals, groups, institutions, and societies are required to work harder, and spend more, in adapting and building resilience.
- The social reproduction required to implement adaptive and resilience strategies is undervalued and obscure.
- Ideals of participatory processes embedded within adaptation and resilience discourse are exclusionary and act against social cohesion to perpetuate injustice.
In this project, you will investigate insurgent discourses and practices that expose, address, challenge, and disrupt problematic dimensions of hegemonic adaptation and resilience. You will consider how people and communities already adapt, and build resilience, through everyday practices that run parallel or counter to the hegemony. This may involve a desktop study or qualitative field work. You may draw on fields of research such as critical geography, insurgent planning, and science and technology studies.
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Funding
Applicants will be considered for a Research Training Program (RTP) scholarship or Tasmania Graduate Research Scholarship (TGRS) which, if successful, provides:
- a living allowance stipend of $33,511 per annum (2025 rate, indexed annually) for 3.5 years
- a relocation allowance of up to $2,000
- a tuition fees offset covering the cost of tuition fees for up to four years (domestic applicants only)
If successful, international applicants will receive a University of Tasmania Fees Offset for up to four years.
As part of the application process you may indicate if you do not wish to be considered for scholarship funding.
Other funding opportunities and fees
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Eligibility
Applicants should review the Higher Degree by Research minimum entry requirements.
Ensure your eligibility for the scholarship round by referring to our Key Dates.
Selection Criteria
The project is competitively assessed and awarded. Selection is based on academic merit and suitability to the project as determined by the College.
Additional essential selection criteria specific to this project:
- Skills in social research methods, or demonstrated capacity to develop these skills.
- Knowledge of social theory, or demonstrated capacity to develop this knowledge.
- Background in human geography or allied field.
Application process
- Select your project, and check that you meet the eligibility and selection criteria, including citizenship;
- Contact A/Prof Kate Booth to discuss your suitability and the project's requirements; and
- In your application:
- Copy and paste the title of the project from this advertisement into your application. If you don’t correctly do this your application may be rejected.
- Submit a signed supervisory support form, a CV including contact details of 2 referees and your project research proposal.
- Apply prior to 1 February 2025.
Full details of the application process can be found under the 'How to apply' section at Research degrees.
Following the closing date applications will be assessed within the College. Applicants should expect to receive notification of the outcome by email by the advertised outcome date.
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