Applications are open for a fully-funded three-year PhD to start in February 2025, with opportunities to visit Peru.
The Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures (PCMC) is delighted to announce a PhD scholarship in the field of humanities and social science on the first phase of the ‘Sail to Steam, Carbon to Green: Empowering Port Communities in the Global South’ project. The scholar will focus on the port city of Callao in Peru.
The overarching theme of ‘Sail to Steam, Carbon to Green’ is to seek to understand the role of local knowledge and the impact of sail to steam shipping on communities and the infrastructure of international sea ports in the Global South. This will be underpinned by studies which will provide rigorous scholarly research for comparative analysis of the heritage and attitudes of people in the Global South in regard to maritime technological change and its consequences.
The PhD will be based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and will be supervised by the project leaders Dr Rudolph Ng, Dr Melanie Bassett and Dr Karl Bell. Additional mentorship will be offered by Professor Jose de la Puente Brunke at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).
Fees cover UK/EU costs only. International students may apply but would be required to top-up their fees.