PhD Studentship

Polli:Nation: Citizen Science and Environmental Education in the School Grounds

Applications are now invited for a full-time 3 year PhD studentship
The School of Education, University of Stirling is now seeking applicants for a funded, full-time, three year PhD studentship. The studentship will involve the researcher in evaluating and researching some key aspects of an innovative school-based citizen science and environmental education project: Polli:Nation.

The Polli:Nation project is designed to directly involve schools in recording, conserving habitat for, and restoring the abundance and diversity of pollinating insect species in the UK. The project will be led by Learning Through Landscapes (LTL), the UK charity dedicated to enhancing outdoor learning and play for children, who have recently been awarded £1.4 M from the Heritage Lottery Fund to deliver the project across all four of the UK countries. Partners include Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, Field Studies Council, and the OPAL (citizen science) network and working to help deliver the project with The Conservations Volunteers and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

For further information please contact Alison Motion (amotion@ltl.org.uk ) at Grounds for Learning, Janet McCurdie (Administration at School of Education, University of Stirling j.h.f.mccurdie@stir.ac.uk or Dr Greg Mannion (greg.mannion@stir.ac.uk