[Human Dimensions of Global Change] : PhD and masters positions - McGill
University
There are several potential graduate student openings starting the fall of
2015 at the masters or PhD level in my group in the Department of Geography
at McGill University. Positions carry 1 to 3 years of funding, depending on
level and funding availability. Qualified students will support one of two
interdisciplinary research projects in the area of ecosystem services,
environmental economics, development, and environmental geography. The two
projects are:
1. Ecosystem service benefits to local populations. This project aims to
further our understanding of the links between human welfare and ecosystem
services through land use and population data in rural China. We aim to test
new methods for capturing environmental dependencies through household
surveys, land use data and models of ecosystem service flows.
2. Linking grazing institutions, household livelihoods and locust outbreaks
to regional economies. This project researches the feedbacks among locusts,
livestock, nutrients, and people in China and Australia. These regions are
socio-politically disparate and allow the opportunity to investigate how
property rights regimes may affect the adaptive capacity of societies to
respond to shocks like locust outbreaks in social-ecological systems.
In either project, students will be expected to contribute to methodological
and empirical advances in analysis and data collection, and international
data collection in challenging field settings is likely. Experience in the
following may be an asset: household data collection,
econometric/statistical data analysis, spatial analysis, working in
low-income settings, knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, and knowledge of China.
At the PhD level preference will be given to students already holding a
master's degree and who have published.
Interested candidates should email their CV, transcripts, and a short
description of their interests to brian.e.robinson@mcgill.ca. Only
short-listed candidates will be contacted. Exceptional international
applicants (from outside Canada) may be considered for a competitive tuition
reduction fellowship. Information about the department and the admissions
process can be found at http://www.mcgill.ca/geography. The department's
application deadline is January 31, 2015.
McGill University, consistently ranked among the top universities in the
world, is located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the most unique cities in North
America. The Department of Geography is in the Faculty of Science, and has
collaborative engagements with the McGill School of the environment and many
other departments across the university.
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Brian Robinson
McGill University
brian.e.robinson@mcgill.ca
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