Institute for Transport Studies funded studentship 2024-25 - INFUZE: Inclusive Evaluation of Mobility Systems

Lead Supervisor’s full name & email address

Professor Greg Marsden - G.R.Marsden@its.leeds.ac.uk

Project summary

One full scholarship is available at the Institute for Transport Studies in 2025/26. This scholarship is open to UK (Home fee rated) applicants and covers UK fees plus maintenance stipend.

This fully funded PhD place provides an exciting opportunity to pursue postgraduate research in a range of fields relating to environmental science and climate change.

The Institute for Transport Studies invites applications from prospective postgraduate researchers who wish to commence study for a PhD in the academic year 2025/26 for the Institute for Transport Studies INFUZE Scholarship.

Traditional approaches to understanding why we travel have been criticised as having a ‘flat ontology’ where the experience of travel is treated as a blank space that people travel ‘through’ (Sheller 2018).  Transport planning is therefore at risk of ignoring pre-existing structural inequalities and how the journey experience is experienced differently across groups or, indeed, reinforcing them. Current project appraisal approaches explore the value for money of specific projects or interventions, such as a new road or the adding of a cycle lane. Whilst aspects of inclusion do feature in the assessment, they are typically small in magnitude or covered in some form of social impact assessment. This enables distributional analysis of policy options or projects and the suggestion of remediation, but it does not place inclusive design at the heart of option generation and sifting. This PhD will explore the development of a more inclusive and bottom up set of evaluator tools which enable policy makers to understand different system change options.

Entry requirements

The minimum entry requirements for PhD study is 2.1 honours degree, or equivalent, or a good performance in a Masters level course. A first-class honours degree (or equivalent) is usually required to be competitive for scholarship funding and a Masters degree is also a valuable asset.

Applicants who are uncertain about the requirements for a particular research degree are advised to contact the PGR Admissions Team prior to making an application.

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