Four-year PhD Scholarship on Foundations of Animal Sentience, apply by 10 January
The
Foundations of Animal Sentience project (ASENT), a five-year ERC-funded
project led by Dr Jonathan Birch, aims to study the methodological
foundations of animal sentience research
and the link between sentience and animal welfare. The project seeks to
recruit
one PhD student. The student will contribute to the project either
by exploring the methodological foundations of animal sentience
research, or by investigating the pathway from animal sentience research
to consequences for animal welfare legislation and
policy and/or animal ethics.
The
student should have an excellent undergraduate degree and a completed
Masters degree in philosophy or another relevant subject, such as
comparative psychology, cognitive science,
or animal welfare science. The primary supervisor of the PhD project
will be Dr Jonathan Birch. If you have any questions or want to know
more about the project, please write to Jonathan at
j.birch2@lse.ac.uk.
The successful applicant will receive full funding for a
4-year PhD at LSE, including full payment of tuition fees AND a maintenance stipend of £18,000 per annum.
To apply, please apply to the MPhil/PhD in Philosophy at LSE in the
usual way, carefully following all the requirements described on LSE’s
website:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-
You should include, in your research proposal,
a substantial description (of at least 1,500 words) of a research project relevant to ASENT.
You MAY, if you wish, include TWO research proposals in the same
document: a proposal relevant to ASENT, and a proposal on a different
subject that you would
pursue if awarded an LSE Studentship or a LAHP (AHRC) scholarship. If
you do this, please indicate clearly which of the two proposals is
relevant to ASENT.
CLOSING DATE: 10 JANUARY 2020.
It is expected that interviews will be conducted in late January or in February.