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Graduate Programme

The Graduate Programme is a fundamental part of the Conflict in Cities project on three counts:  First, through graduate dissertations the project will extend the range of in-depth studies of cities covered thus providing a broader empirical base upon which general patterns can be discerned.  Secondly, the interactions and intellectual synergy between the graduate students, the research assistants, project partners and team investigators will contribute towards delineating a methodological framework for the study of conflict in cities that will encompass a range of disciplines. Finally, the involvement of graduates in the project will assist in the establishment of a cohort of researchers trained in an inter-disciplinary environment which will lay the foundations for future work and dissemination.
In order to achieve these aims the project plans to provide an “enhanced” Graduate programme to include annual graduate workshops, attendance at the initial project workshop in September, attendance at the International Conference in Belfast in Year 4 of the project and, funding permitting, an opportunity to attend the annual project workshops.  In addition, students will have access to project investigators, the Research Associates, and be part of the publication plans of the project ranging from submission of Working Papers, workshop papers and the publications of their theses as books.

Recognising these factors the ESRC and the collaborating Universities agreed to fund seven PhD studentships – 3 by the ESRC (including 1 x 1+3), 2 by Queen’s Belfast, 1 each by Exeter and Cambridge.  All the studentships are of equal value and the facilities by the Universities provided are comparable.  Interviews were held in Chatham House on 1st February, and 7 applicants were selected as follows.

 Name

Registered with

Nationality

Topic/City

Degree

Monika Halkort

Belfast

EU

Nahr al-Bard refugee camp, Tripoli, Lebanon

PhD

Linda Rootamm

Belfast

EU

Berlin

PhD

Guilia Carabelli

Belfast

EU

Mostar

PhD

Konstantin Kastrissianakis

Cambridge

EU

Beirut

PhD

Anita Bakshi

Cambridge

EU

Nicosia

PhD

Kelsey Shanks

Exeter

EU

Kirkuk

M.Res/PhD

Karl O’Connor

Exeter

Eire/UK

Brussels, Nicosia and Beirut

PhD


Student details will be posted here shortly