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PhD Studentship: Locating discapability within processes of urban greening and green gentrification :Job description:Qualification Type: PhD The University of Exeter's College of Medicine and Health is inviting applications for a fully-funded PhD studentship to commence in September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. Project Description: There is now a relatively well-established evidence base suggesting that time spent in so-called ?green' space environments (for example, parks, gardens, woodlands and countryside areas) can be beneficial for human health and wellbeing. However, a growing body of critical research examining the social impacts of urban greening has also identified detrimental processes of ?green gentrification', with minority and low-earnings residents witnessing the greening, rebranding and subsequent exclusion from their communities. Although rarely acknowledged within the existing green gentrification scholarship, disabled people are at particular risk of such displacement due to high levels of poverty through entrenched disabling barriers to employment. Disabled people are also more likely to face additional (often invisible) labour costs in trying to re-build social networks following displacement and navigate unfamiliar physical, health and social care environments in new communities. This PhD project aims to improve knowledge of the implications of urban greening for disabled residents, and identify opportunities to embed discapability knowledges and priorities within current efforts to create more socially inclusive urban green space access for health and wellbeing. It will focus on two urban case study areas in the UK, examining how the different national policy landscapes in these two regions intersect with local discapability and planning politics to shape practices of and responses to urban greening and green gentrification amongst residents with varied practices and histories of discapability. A pluralistic qualitative interpretive approach is proposed for this PhD, combining qualitative evidence synthesis with documentary analysis and exploratory, person-centred qualitative fieldwork that will enable people to describe their practices of discapability, urban greening and green gentrification in their own terms at their own pace. More details on the PhD can be found on our blog www.beyondgreenspace.net The studentship will be affiliated with the ?GroundsWell' project funded by avoidance Research Partnership/Medical Research Council (project ref 118009). ?GroundsWell: Community-engaged and Data-informed Systems Transformation of Urban Green and Blue Space for Population Health', is exploring how transforming cities with nature can best reduce - rather than inadvertently act to widen - social health inequalities. More information is available about GroundsWell online: https://ukprp.org/what-we-fund/groundswell/ This studentship award provides annual funding to cover Home tuition fees and a tax-free stipend. For students who pay Home tuition fees the award will cover the tuition fees in full, plus at least £16,062 per year tax-free stipend. Students who pay international tuition fees are eligible to apply, but should note that the award will only provide payment for part of the international tuition fee and no stipend. International candidates need to be aware that you will have to cover the cost of your student visa, healthcare surcharge and other costs of moving to the UK to do a PhD. The conditions for eligibility of home fees status are complex and you will need to seek advice if you have moved to or from the UK (or Republic of Ireland) within the past 3 years or have applied for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme. The studentship will be awarded on the basis of merit for 3 years of full-time study to commence in September 2022. Skills:
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