PhD Programme
Funded PhD studentship available for 2011 in Cardiff
Project Title: Public and stakeholder responses to the risks of future sea level rise in the Severn Estuary
Sustainability Omni Labelling – A mean to support more Sustainable Consumption?
The main aim of this PhD project is to investigate the prospects for the implementation of a sustainability ‘omni label’ to support ‘more’ sustainable consumption.
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Biofuel Technology and Controversy
Critical realist philosophy is deployed to develop a dialectical conceptualisation of technology and controversy, including a close-range semiotic examination of the relationship between technological objects and their understandings.
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Russia’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Cumulative Emission Budgets
In Annex-1 nations, despite Kyoto commitments, the levels of emissions continue to be well in excess of those required to avoid ‘dangerous climate change’.
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Models and methods for informing UK climate change mitigation policy
The overall project aim is to understand what are the most appropriate tools and methods to support/ inform the UK transition to a low carbon economy, to identify gaps in UK climate change mitigation modelling and to make recommendations for modelling improvements.
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Analysing Carbon Trading as an Instituted Process of Exchange (Recently completed Project)
Climate change mitigation necessitates substantial alterations to patterns of worldwide economic activity and there are profound political, economic and ethical questions surrounding the governance of the means, rate and location of change.
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Our PhD Research
Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the work being carried out at the Tyndall Centre, PhD researchers are conducting a wide range of research projects ranging from the effect climate change will have on human health to the impacts of biofuels on the social-ecological resilience of food systems to the role of behavioural change in reducing GHG emissions.
