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PhD Scholarship: Solar Solutions to Improve Energy Affordability

by Lynne Chester on October 8, 2021

PhD Scholarship: Solar Solutions to Improve Energy Affordability

Lynne Chester | October 8, 2021

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PhD scholarship at the University of Sydney (School of Social and Political Sciences), Sydney, Australia

This scholarship is part on an exciting political economy social justice project focused on the energy affordability of vulnerable households.

The 3-year scholarship is to be awarded for a PhD project working in close collaboration with an ARC Linkage Project to develop solar solutions to improve energy affordability for low-income renters. More than 1 million Australian households are low-income renters. The project’s solutions will be relevant to comparable international jurisdictions.

Full details of the scholarship including eligibility criteria can be found here.

The deadline for applications is 20 December 2021. Interviews are planned for January 2022. The successful applicant is required to commence by 31 March 2022.

The successful applicant will be required (as per current University of Sydney policy) to spend a minimum of 4 research periods (the equivalent of 1 year) on-campus at the University of Sydney during their candidature.

At the time of applying for the scholarship, the applicant is required to have an unconditional offer of admission, or a conditional offer of admission, or have applied for admission to study full-time in a PhD within the Department of Political Economy or the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at the University of Sydney.

Details of the FASS PhD program can be found here.

For more information please contact Lynne Chester (lynne.chester@sydney.edu.au) or Amanda Elliot (amanda.elliot@sydney.edu.au) .

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Author: Lynne Chester

Lynne Chester is Associate Professor, and Chair of the University of Sydney’s Department of Political Economy. Her research focuses on a range of energy issues and advancing the project of heterodox economics. Her energy research focus includes: the structure and outcomes of energy markets, energy affordability, energy (in)justice, the financialization of energy sectors, the institutions (including economic regulatory regimes) of energy sectors, government energy policies, energy problematization, energy security, and the economic-energy-environment relation. She is co-editor of Heterodox Economics: Legacy and Prospects (World Economics Association, in press), The Handbook of Heterodox Economics (Routledge, 2018) and Challenging the Orthodoxy: Reflections on Frank Stilwell’s Contribution to Political Economy (Springer, 2014), and a former co-editor (2013-2019) of the Review of Political Economy.

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