Job Description
Fully-funded PhD Studentship Climate Science And The Risk Society
April 19, 2010
Swansea University - Department of Geography
Professor Marcus Doel, Department of Geography, Professor Tavi Murray, Department of Geography, Professor Mark Stallworthy, School of Law
Project and aims
This fully funded Swansea University studentship (joint Geography/Law) will address the relationship between science and wider society (civil society, policy- and law‑makers, and other social actors) in the context of climate change – particularly in the wake of the 2009 ‘climate‑gate’ affair (when internal electronic communications of the Climate Change Unit at the University of East Anglia were placed in the public domain by third‑party intervention). The focus will be on how scientific knowledge is mediated by other interests, and the challenges this raises in a ‘world risk society’ (Beck) in which progress has created countless new global unce...