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Coventry University
PhD in Community Self Organisation for Resilience
Coventry University

PhD in Community Self Organisation for Resilience

COVENTRY UNIVERSITY

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Full time | Coventry (Main Campus) | 3 years | MAY-26

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Full time

Duration

3 years

Start date

MAY-26

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Qualification type

PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

Subject areas

Information Security

Course Summary

This research focuses on the complex and contested ways in which communities self-organize to manage the food and water resources upon which they depend. From re-purposing and re-valuing forgotten resources and skills in an age of austerity, to adopting new technologies for new opportunities, or re-building livelihoods after disasters or conflicts, communities embrace multiple strategies and tactics in their pathways to resilience. We understand community resilience as a cyclical process of personal and collective action, which is dynamic, plural and adaptive rather than static and singular. Moreover, through our research programme, we seek to further progress critical understandings of the concept of community resilience. In particular, we trace the genealogy of ‘resilience’ as a concept we critically attend to the various ways in which ‘resilience’ has been mobilised in different discursive, disciplinary and policy settings and we attend to the large scale political-economic structures which enable or restrict the ability of communities to be resilient. Our approach understands communities in the broadest sense of that term, to include local groups, socio-cultural groups and shared interest groups, and we recognize that communities are diverse, complex and defined by multiple tensions. They can simultaneously be sites of domination and resistance, exclusion and inclusion, division and cohesion, vulnerability and resilience.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£5,005

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£15,780

Entry requirements

A minimum of a 2:1 first degree in a relevant discipline/subject area with a minimum 60% mark in the project element or equivalent with a minimum 60% overall module average. In the event of a first degree classification of less than 2:1, a Masters Degree in a relevant subject area will be considered as an equivalent. The Masters must have been attained with minimum overall marks at merit level (60%)*. In addition, the dissertation or equivalent element in the Masters must also have been attained with a minimum mark of merit level (60%). Or higher where stipulated against a specific opportunity.

University information

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Coventry University is a global university with a mission to create better futures. Founded by entrepreneurs and industrialists in 1843 as Coventry School of Design, the university continues to work with businesses to ensure it provides its job-ready graduates with the skills and creative thinking to improve their communities. Coventry University is a truly global university with over 13,000 international students from over 150...more

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