Dear all
I would be very grateful if you would bring the following vacancy to the attention of anyone you think might be interested? Apologies for cross-posting.
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Three Year PhD Studentship, in the Social and Spatial Inequalities group, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield :
Worldmapping beyond mere description: mapping more than the nation states, given what is counted, where, drawing new world maps
This PhD project seeks to build on the work of the Worldmapper team. It will be supervised by Professor Danny Dorling. Second supervisor will be Dr Mark Ramsden.
The Worldmapper project website (http://www.worldmapper.org) has received more than one million unique visitors. The website visually describes the world, mapping the contours of hundreds of variables; but only in one way and a way easily open to criticism despite its novelty and wide scope. The work of the PhD student, to be appointed, should help address these potential criticisms, to work on moving the resource beyond its current simple descriptive form. To do this will require turning to more theoretical issues of how world resources, flows and shares are understood, particularly visually understood – and how we might improve on this.
Full details available at
http://sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/vacancies/studentship_december07.html
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Thanks
John Pritchard
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John Pritchard
Geography Department
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield S10 2TN
UK
http://www.worldmapper.org
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/sasi
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/staff/pritchard_john
Tel +44(0)114 2227964
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