PhD Neuroscience Studentship in Consumers and Possessions.

The School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment at Nottingham Trent University has an ambitious development strategy that allows us to offer an excellent opportunity for a scholarship for doctoral studies. The scholarships pay UK / EU fees and provide a maintenance bond in connection with the rate of RCUK (£ 13.590 per year for 2011/12) for up to three years.

The need to improve the understanding of human behavior in order to sustainable consumption is easy to see progress, is proof that the design of our possessions and our environment locks into particular forms of behavior.

This is a scholarship with interdisciplinary research, how people use their property and the built environment towards sustainability and the impact on the design practice. A key will be to knowledge in the field of sustainable architecture, sustainable design and sustainable products leads.

Our previous studies have found evidence of inconsistent behavior of consumers in terms of their influence on the environmental impact of various products. Further research is needed to plan these contradictions and the University of the Sustainable Consumption Research Group present a series of seminars to explain the cross. This will examine the use of buildings, clothing, household goods and vehicles and the factors that could cause them to be used in a sustainable way and to explore the reasons for variations in the behavior of users. Other research at the University proposed a theoretical case for the treatment of the effect of the physical form of products on people's behavior. Open University Research Group (objects, practices, experiences and networks) is running a series of events to be considered by the different perspectives on material and size. The outcome of these two initiatives will form the basis of this science, the change on the understanding of behavior is to be improved per environnementau

The supervisory team will include Professor Tim Cooper, Head of the Sustainable Consumption Research Group, as Director of Studies and Professor Tom Fisher, Head of the OPEN Research Group.

The closing date for applications is midnight Friday 15 April 2011.

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