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Environmental Social Science MSc, MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Environmental Social Science subject area.
Key facts
- Subject area: Environmental Social Science
- Location: Canterbury
- School: Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR)
- Duration: MSc one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD registration three to four years full-time or five to six years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees: More info
- Entry requirements: A good honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent vocational experience. Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Outline
Research programmes involve writing a thesis on a particular topic with specialist supervision. You are given research training, which is tailored to the particular needs of your research and takes into account any training you have previously received. You also have opportunities to attend modules on relevant subjects on a non-assessed basis to fill any gaps in your background.
We offer research supervision across a broad range of topics. We are especially interested in applications that include proposals to investigate the social dimensions of environmental issues in the countries in which we have area expertise, and topics in environmental politics and environmental movements.
Programme structure
For further information see the School site.
Funding
Every school at Kent offers one or two University postgraduate research scholarships, each available for three years, providing fees at the home/EU rate and a stipend up to £13,590 per annum (2011/12 rate).
Many schools offer scholarships in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) whereby postgraduate research students receive financial support in return for teaching. The value of awards may vary, but often cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a substantial maintenance grant.
All postgraduate research students are eligible to apply for GTAs. See Graduate Teaching Assistantships.
For further details of postgraduate funding, see Postgraduate funding.
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Resources and facilities
The Environmental Social Science programmes are hosted by the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. Relevant library and computing facilities are excellent, and all research students are offered desk space in shared offices, readily accessible at all hours.
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Staff research
Dr Adam Burgess: Reader in Sociology
Communications; mass media; risk.
Professor Roy Ellen: Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology
Ethnobiology, environmental anthropology; the human ecology of rainforest populations, deforestation, inter-island trade; Indonesia, South- East Asia.
Professor Frank Furedi: Professor of Sociology
Sociology of risk consciousness; disasters and catastrophes.
Professor Stuart Harrop: Professor of Wildlife Management Law
Law and policy relating to conservation, biodiversity and genetic resources; rights of indigenous peoples; intellectual property.
Professor William Howarth: Professor of Environmental Law
Environmental law; conservation of aquatic environment and ecosystems.
Dr Jeremy Kendall: Senior Lecturer in Social Policy
NGOs, charities, voluntary organisations and civil society.
Donald McGillivray: Senior Lecturer in Law
Environmental law; climate change, EC and water law.
Dr Helen Newing: Lecturer in Conservation
Communities, conservation and development in tropical forest regions; indigenous peoples and biodiversity.
Dr Rajindra Puri: Senior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology
Historical ecology; knowledge transmission; adaptation to climate change; wildlife trade; protected areas; South-east Asia; Borneo.
Professor Chris Rootes: Professor of Environmental Politics and Political Sociology
Environmental politics; protest, social and political movements; environmental citizenship; politics of climate change.
Professor Julia Twigg: Professor of Social Policy and Sociology
Social policy and the body; sociology of food and eating.
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Contact details
Admissions enquiriesT: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Graduate Admissions Secretary
School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
T: +44 (0)1227 8273525
F: +44 (0)1227 827005
E: socio-office@kent.ac.uk
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