Hi, please find below a fully funded PhD at Lancaster University that might be
<br>of interest to you or your networks.
<br>If you are interested and would like to discuss, please email me at
<br>n.spurling@lancaster.ac.uk, on twitter
<br>@nicolaspurling
<br>Best wishes, Nicola
<br>
<br>The Social Lives of Batteries and New Energy Materials
<br>3 year, fully funded PhD opportunity for UK and EU Citizens, based in the
<br>Leverhulme Material Social Futures Doctoral Training Centre, and Sociology
<br>Department at Lancaster University, UK.
<br>
<br>Enquiries to: Dr Nicola Spurling,
<br>n.spurling@lancaster.ac.uk
<br>Closing date: 31st July 2019
<br>Supervisor: Dr Nicola Spurling (nb a second supervisor appropriate to the
<br>successful candidate will be identified on appointment).
<br>The Leverhulme Material Social Futures Programme and Lancaster Sociology are
<br>seeking a candidate for this exciting PhD opportunity. The position will suit
<br>applicants with a background in Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Material
<br>Culture or Science and Technology Studies. Experience of qualitative and
<br>ethnographic methods, and an interest in one of the following fields is
<br>desirable: mobilities, science and technology studies, social practice
<br>theory, new materialisms, sociology of the future.
<br>Specifically focused on new energy materials, battery technologies and
<br>electric vehicles, the PhD will follow batteries through the laboratory and
<br>into the possible forms of mobility and everyday futures which they might be
<br>part of. This might develop in a variety of theoretical and methodological
<br>directions, depending on the interests of the successful candidate, but should
<br>include: i) conducting empirical research on how 'the battery' exists in the
<br>discourse and practices of material scientists that are working on new energy
<br>materials; ii) analysing how such assumptions have implications for the
<br>development of new materials and battery technologies; iii) creatively
<br>developing 'everyday futures' and imagined 'social lives' of future
<br>batteries.
<br>The ultimate aim is to explore some of the alternative socio-technical lives
<br>of future batteries through focussing on futures of travel in different
<br>countries, in transformed vehicle ecologies, and in relation to changed end
<br>use practices. Through the Material Social Futures doctoral training centre,
<br>there will be many opportunities to engage in dialogue with material
<br>scientists (both staff and students), for example, through the MSF training
<br>programme, and with a thematically linked PhD in Chemistry on sustainable
<br>battery materials.
<br>Informal enquiries prior to submitting an application are encouraged and can
<br>be made directly to Dr Nicola Spurling
<br>(n.spurling@lancaster.ac.uk).
<br>Applications should be made via Lancaster University's online application
<br>system. Applicants must put LEVERHULME under 'source of funding' in the
<br>application form.
<br>(http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/how-to-apply-for-postgraduate-
<br>study/).
<br>
<br>Further Information
<br>>>https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/phd/#the-social-lives-of-batteries-an
<br>d-new-energy-materials
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