[Air-L] Fwd: ESRC Funded PhD Studentship on social media and disaster resilience

[Paul J Reilly]

ESRC Funded PhD Studentship on social media and disaster resilience

Dr Tina McGuinness (Management School, University of Sheffield) and I are
looking for applications for an ESRC PhD studentship, entitled "social
media and community resilience: a process based study of South Yorkshire
Fire and Rescue Services." Funded by the White Rose Doctoral Training
Partnership Collaborative award, the successful applicant will work with
SYFR to evaluate how sites such as Facebook and Twitter can be used to
promote community disaster resilience and encourage citizens to fully
participate in disaster risk management and reduction initiatives. Further
details on the studentship can be found here
<http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AXW312/phd-studentship-social-media-and-community-disaster-resilience-a-process-based-study-of-south-yorkshire-fire-and-rescue/>
and
the closing date for applications is *20 March 2017*.

If you have any questions about this then please feel free to email me (
p.j.reilly at sheffield.ac.uk) or Tina (martina.mguinness at sheffield.ac.uk).

Best Wishes

Paul


Dr Paul Reilly
Faculty Officer for PGR Student Affairs (Social Sciences)
Senior Lecturer in Social Media & Digital Society
Information School
University of Sheffield
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