Award Award | Duration Duration | Start dates Start dates | Application Application |
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PhD (MPhil also available) PhD (MPhil also available) | Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years
Full-time: 3–4 years
Part-time: 6–8 years
| February and October February and October | January to April January to April |
The changing climate and environmental quality underpin economies. Economic activity at the micro and macro levels also fundamentally influences environmental sustainability. OU economists apply their diverse expertise to understand how economic decisions can have a net positive effect on the environment, and how environmental strategies affect the economy.
Our interests cover the full circle between natural resource extraction, supply chains, consumption and waste and pollution, as well as the role of individuals, private initiatives, innovation and public policy. We welcome proposals from all fields interested in researching issues across the environmental sustainability spectrum, like climate mitigation and adaptation, energy, landscape regeneration, water management, biodiversity, pollution and health, food systems, or environmental justice.
We are interested in both theoretical and applied research with policy implications, using qualitative and/or quantitative methods. Students will join a broad community of scholars working on environmental topics at the School of Social Sciences & Global Studies.
Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.
Potential research topics include the role of personal finance in reducing carbon footprints, motivations and incentives for pro-environmental behaviour, inequalities in the energy transition, eco-social policies, green jobs, the role of public services, pension funds and degrowth, ecological debt, sovereign risk and climate finance.
UK fee UK fee | International fee International fee |
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Full-time: £5,006 per year Full-time: £5,006 per year | Full-time: £12,705 per year Full-time: £12,705 per year |
Part-time: £2,503 per year Part-time: £2,503 per year | Part-time: £6,353 per year Part-time: £6,353 per year |
Some of our research students are funded via The Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.
For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.
To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.
