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Overseas Institutional Visit scheme: Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
I have recently completed a three month overseas institutional visit in Switzerland collaborating with the genomic privacy group at EPFL’s School of Computer and Communication Sciences in Lausanne. My PhD My PhD is about assessing and managing the risks of privacy...
Enhancing Interdisciplinarity Seminar Series
Following the success of the UoM Interdisciplinary symposium in January 2014, a team of doctoral researchers from all three universities in the NWDTC partnership (Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster) have developed a seminar series that builds on the lessons learned...
Baltic Social Anthropology Pathway Partnering Scheme
Applications are invited from current PhD students in the North West Doctoral Training Centre (NWDTC) for funding for a study visit to partner institutions in Latvia, Estonia or Lithuania. The University of Latvia (Riga) Tallinn University (Estonia) Lithuanian...
CASE partnership with EDF Energy
My CASE studentship is part of the EDF R&D ECLEER Programme (which is a network of researchers based in France led by EDF the energy company), with an immediate link to a project between four UK universities and EDF R&D on thermal comfort, housing and older...
Fieldwork: Experiences of the Homeless in Chicago, Illinois
In February 2014, I moved from Liverpool to Chicago to start 6 months of fieldwork, focused on homeless experiences in the city. Supervised across sociology and human geography and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (North West Doctoral Training...