Applications are invited for a fully-funded three year PhD, with opportunities for a visiting scholarship in Macau, to commence in October 2025.
The Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures (PCMC) is thrilled to announce an opportunity for doctoral research as part of the ‘Sail to Steam, Carbon to Green: Empowering Port Communities in the Global South' project.
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 four PhD 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 advertised PhD programme will focus on the port city of Macau (SAR China).
The PhD will be based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the СÀ¶ÊÓƵ, and will be supervised by the project leaders Dr Melanie Bassett, Dr Rudolph Ng and Professor Brad Beaven.
The visiting scholarship is supported by the University of Macau who will host the student as a visiting scholar. Additional research and dissemination support is offered by the Macau Maritime Museum.
This exciting scholarship covers fees up to UK and EU costs (international students may apply but would be required to top-up their fees), an annual stipend at the UKRI rate, a generous travel allowance for the student to conduct national and international research, and a ‘community engagement fund’ to enable the student to co-produce impactful responses to the historical research and current challenges associated with energy transition.