AQUABALANCE Postgraduate Scholarship
Department of Geography Postgraduate Research Scholarship 2024-25
Applications are now open for a Postgraduate Scholarship in Geography at the Department of Geography, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.
The scholarship is for an award titled the ‘AQUABALANCE’ Postgraduate Scholarship.
Award: Fees + €18,000 annual stipend Scholarships are confined to Doctoral (PhD) projects, with funding provided for up to three years and fees (only) for a fourth year if required. There will be no financial support beyond the fourth year.
The deadline for applications is 14 June 2024.
To download the AQUABALANCE Postgraduate Scholarship application form (Microsoft word) click here.
The AQUABALANCE Project
Balancing economic, environmental, and social sustainability in the European aquaculture industry’ Scholarship
AQUABALANCE will identify barriers and drivers for ongoing transition processes, investigate dilemmas associated with rebalancing the economic, environmental, and social dimensions, analyse how the aquaculture industry can ensure legitimacy, and explore the role of policy for these transition processes. The project follows a pan-European perspective by focusing on different geographical locations and regions (North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean), and maps existing and promising solutions boosting the sustainability and viability of the aquaculture industry. Specifically, based on a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, it will create new knowledge about how the European aquaculture industry can develop onwards in ways that are not environmentally harmful, and contribute to value creation and value capture both locally, nationally, and internationally.
The Department of Geography wishes to develop its research and postgraduate profile in this area, in keeping with existing themes and strengths within the department, including on sustainable development, social justice, low-carbon transitions and sustainable livelihoods. Through offering this PhD Scholarship, the Department of Geography plans to attract a strong field of applicants from leading research institutions in Ireland and around the world. The research will be supervised by Dr. John Morrissey.
The specific research questions will be decided following receipt of proposals brought forward by applicants for the scholarship. This PhD scholarship will feed into the wider AQUABALANCE project, comprising a 36-month consortium project with partners in Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, HVL, Norway, Università degli Studi di Verona, UNIVR, Italy, University of Copenhagen, UCPH, Denmark, The Seafood Innovation Cluster, TSIC, Norway and Mary Immaculate College, Ireland. The overarching project will provide pan-European and regional industry and policy advice and a policy roadmap that has a transnational perspective and also can be adapted to the regional specificities. Forthcoming recommendations will serve as a background for a more sustainable growth of the aquaculture industry, contributing to achieving the goals of the EU Farm to Fork strategy, solving grand challenges of climate change and social justice, and thereby generating significant value for the whole society.
Further information on AQUABALANCE is available here.
Download AQUABALANCE Postgraduate Scholarship information here (Microsoft word).
