CEADs Team at University College London Recruiting Outstanding PhD Students
The CEADs team, based at the Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management at University College London (a global top-10 university), is recruiting PhD students for admission in September 2021. Full scholarships are available for outstanding candidates: tuition fees of GBP 20,000 per year will be waived, and a living allowance of GBP 17,000 per year will be provided. Research areas include climate change and disaster economics, energy and environmental policy, the health and economic impacts of air pollution, and the compilation and application of environmental input-output tables.
Requirements
1. A master's degree, to be obtained before August 2021.
2. IELTS 6.5, with no component below 6.0.
3. Familiarity with at least one programming language, such as Matlab, R, or Python.
4. Candidates with backgrounds in economics and environmental science, especially those with experience building quantitative models, will be given priority.
Interested applicants should send the following materials to jing.j.meng@ucl.ac.uk as early as possible. The application deadline is December 31, 2020.
1. A one-page self-recommendation letter.
2. Curriculum vitae in both Chinese and English.
3. A two-page research proposal.
4. IELTS transcript, or other materials demonstrating IELTS 6.5-level English proficiency.
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Dr. Jing Meng as soon as possible to discuss future research plans and academic directions.
About the University
University College London, commonly known as UCL, was founded in 1826 and is located in London, United Kingdom. It is a world-leading public comprehensive research university that consistently ranks among the global top ten and is one of the United Kingdom's long-established universities with an outstanding reputation. UCL is the founding college of the University of London and is regarded, together with the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, as one of the G5 super-elite universities. It is also a member of the Golden Triangle, the Russell Group, the China-UK University Engineering Education and Research Alliance, and SES-5. UCL has produced 34 Nobel Prize laureates and 3 Fields Medalists, as well as many prominent figures in science, politics, and culture, including Charles Kao, known as the father of fiber optics; Alexander Graham Bell, known as the father of telephone communication; Francis Crick, a discoverer of DNA and a pioneer in molecular biology; Peter Cook, a leading figure of Archigram; Demis Hassabis and David Silver, creators of the AlphaGo algorithm; literary master Rabindranath Tagore; and Mahatma Gandhi, the father of India.
About the Supervisor
Dr. Jing Meng is a lecturer (assistant professor) at University College London and a member of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) at the University of Cambridge. She serves as an associate editor of the SCI journal Journal of Cleaner Production and the SSCI journal Economia Politica. Her research focuses on climate change policy, the environmental and economic impacts of air pollution, and low-carbon technological innovation. Over the past five years, she has published more than 30 papers as first author or corresponding author in journals including Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Nature Sustainability, Climate Change, and Science Advances. She received a 2018 Nature Communications Earth and Planetary Sciences Top 50 paper award, the 2020 Future Sustainability Leader Award, and was named a 2020 Highly Cited Researcher in the cross-field category by Web of Science.