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Application Deadline：Friday, March 11, 2022
Project Highlights:
Topical subject matter due to the current wave of Hong Kong migration to Britain.
Sits within current intellectual developments in film studies exploring ‘exchange’ between film industries and film cultures.
Combines SOA/film studies research expertise in Chinese film cultures (Dr Feng) and British cinema (Professor Chapman).
About the Project
Research context:
The historic links between Britain and Hong Kong and the current increase in migration from Hong Kong to Britain following the National Security Law makes this a timely moment to explore industrial, commercial and cultural exchange between Hong Kong film-makers and British cinema. While there is now a significant body of work on the migration of both mainland Chinese and Hong King/Taiwanese film-makers to the United States, there has hitherto been no comparable research on the British context. However, Britain has had a very significant impact on Hong Kong film-making, both through co-production arrangements and through the role of the London Film School in acting as a training ground for Hong Kong film-makers.
Examples of UK/Hong Kong exchange include:
Co-productions between Hong Kong and British producers: e.g. the Shaw Brothers and Hammer Film Productions (The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, 1974).
Hong Kong as a location and service facility for British-made film and television productions: e.g. The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) and the television series Yellowthread Street (1999) about the Royal Hong Kong Police.
A number of important Hong Kong new wave film-makers trained at the London Film School: e.g. Ann Hui (The Secret, 1979; Ordinary Heroes, 1999; Our Time Will Come, 2017) and Ho Yim (Red Dust, 1990; The Day the Sun Turned Cold, 1994; Floating City, 2012).
Research Questions:
While it is important for the successful applicant also to have input into shaping the project, indicative research questions are:
What are the political and institutional contexts that frame Hong Kong/British exchange, and how do external factors (such as the handover of HK to Chinese rule, the Asian financial crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic) impact upon such exchange?
What are the economic and cultural determinants underpinning Anglo-Hong Kong co-production arrangements and how successful have such co-productions been?
What support (institutional, academic, financial, cultural) has been available for Hong
In writing your personal statement, we ask you to consider these points:
1. How have your studies to date equipped you to conduct research into film industries and film cultures?
2. How do your knowledge and skills match this project (please provide specific examples where possible)?
3. In shaping the research to fit your own interests, which aspects of this broad subject area would you envisage focusing on?
Methodology
1. Researching industries: including investigation of the economic and industrial contexts and relationships between British and Hong Kong cinemas.
2. Researching people: mapping the career trajectories and contributions of creative professionals including both ‘above the line’ and ‘below the line’ workers.
3. Researching cultures: exploring creative exchange including postcolonial narratives, representations of urban landscapes, spatiality and migration.
The research will involve both industry research, including analysis of the trade press (UK and China) and archival sources (British Film Institute Special Collections, Film Finances Archive), and textual analysis. Dr Feng and Professor Chapman are both experienced in industry research, involving archival and published primary sources. Subject to negotiation, the research may also involve interviews with film-makers, in which case the appropriate ethical clearance and training will be applied.
A working knowledge of Mandarin Chinese would be useful though not essential, as most of the primary sources (published and unpublished) are in English and the subjects of the research (Hong Kong film-makers) usually speak and write in English. A language requirement would also reduce the potential pool of applicants. First supervisor Dr Feng will advise the student on translation in the event that unique Chinese language primary sources are encountered during the research. We expect this project to draw applications from students with degrees in Film Studies, Media Studies, and possibly History and Chinese Studies.
How To Apply
Please refer to our How to Apply information at
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/funded-opportunities/future-100-phd-cssah
With your application, please include:
CV
Personal statement explaining, briefly, your interest in the project and your experience ( If you apply for two projects include a statement for each project on the same document)
Degree Certificates and Transcripts of study already completed and if possible transcript to date of study currently being undertaken
Evidence of English language proficiency, if applicable
In the reference section please enter the contact details of your two academic referees in the boxes provided or upload letters of reference if already available.
Future 100 Scholarships provide funding for 3.5 years to include:
• Tuition fees at UK rate
• Stipend at UKRI rates (currently £15,609. 2022 rates to be confirmed)
• Access to a Research Training Support Grant of up to £1,500 pa for 3 years
• Bench fees of £5,000 per annum for three years for laboratory-based studies
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Precision water and nutrient management to support sustainable intensification of smallholder farming systems
Application Deadline ：Monday, March 14, 2022
Agriculture underpins rural livelihoods and economies across the Global South. However, crop yields achieved by smallholder farmers often fall far below agronomic potential. Limited or inefficient use of crop inputs – such as irrigation and fertilisers – is a key cause of crop yield gaps in smallholder farming systems. A lack of reliable information about expected yield and income benefits, along with farmers’ aversion to investments in inputs like fertiliser or fuel for irrigation, is one of the main underlying drivers of low or inefficient input use in smallholder farming systems.
Development of data-driven advisory products and services that effectively empower smallholder farmers to make more informed and precise input use decisions has the potential to be a game changer for rural development and climate change adaptation.
This PhD project will address these issues by developing new data-driven methods for precision input management in smallholder environments through integration of process-based crop modelling, advanced data analytics, and farm-level agronomic and socio-economic data stacks. The project will be focused on a case study of irrigation and fertiliser management under climate uncertainty in rice-wheat production systems in South Asia, where low levels of water and fertiliser use are the primary driver of yield gaps for millions of rural farmers. Key objectives of the PhD will be to:
Critically evaluate the status, strengths and weaknesses of existing data driven DSS and advisory tools used to guide water and fertiliser input management in smallholder farming systems in South Asia.
Develop a computationally efficient and reliable approach combining crop modelling (APSIM), machine learning and optimisation techniques for determining optimal allocation of limited water and fertiliser inputs in small-scale production systems in target regions.
Evaluate yield, income and environmental outcomes of optimised water and fertiliser management strategies in comparison with existing farmer heuristics, and assess how these benefits are affected by differences in farm characteristics, production settings, model and input data uncertainty.
The student will be based in the Agriculture, Water and Climate group at The University of Manchester (www.ag-water.weebly.com). As part of the project, the student will spend a total of 12 months visiting the University of Melbourne.
During the time in Melbourne, they will work with project partners at Melbourne specialising in fertiliser management (Dr Shu Kee Lam and Dr Alexis Pang) and agricultural data informatics (Prof Pablo Zaro-Tejada), in particular to support objectives 2 and 3 of the PhD. They will also have the opportunity to collaborate and engage with wider research networks at Melbourne, including a parallel dual-award PhD student based at the University of Melbourne whose research will focus on advancing crop nutrient monitoring and modelling for sustainable intensification of farming systems in Australia and globally.
Enabling Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the UK: Bridging the Gap Between Aqueous and Molten Salts
Application Deadline ：Wednesday, April 06, 2022
Research has been underway at the School of Chemical and Process Engineering (CAPE) to develop the next generation of nuclear reprocessing plant (NGRP). If we are to sustain the nuclear fuel cycle in the UK (and this is more important than ever with a programme of new reactor builds) then we need to be able to recycle our spent nuclear fuel economically, safely and sustainably, whatever the reactor technology.
One of the gaps in our knowledge is how would we transition between an aqueous based recycling system (linked to water cooled reactor) into a molten salt reactor system; which requires a dry feed to make the fuel.
This project will focus on bridging a LWR MOX recycle process with a MSR reactor based fuel cycle by developing a synthesis route to create a salt feed from the aqueous product streams of the LWR-MOX process.
Any LWR-MOX recycle process implemented at plant scale in the next few decades is likely to be based on a solvent extraction process (PUREX+iSANEX/EXAM or GANEX). Therefore, the product streams from the main process will be either solutions of metal salts in nitric acid or metal oxides from a finishing route; but MSRs require a metal halide salt feed without oxygen or nitrogen contaminants. Metal oxides have been shown to be electrochemically reduced in molten chloride systems, but this is usually as a pre-treatment to reprocessing, not as a fuel fabrication step and the process itself is not completely proven or shown to be 100% effective at oxygen removal. There is no fluoride equivalent.
Ideally, we would want to take the aqueous product stream directly and then the salt solution can then be evaporated, dried and chemically conditioned for direct feed to a MSR. However, what is required is a way to exchange the nitrate anion for a halide anion, whilst keeping the metal cations in solution. Cationic ion exchange (IX) has been used extensively in the nuclear industry for Cs/Sr removal from contaminated water, but anionic IX has not. However, is it an accepted practice for commercial/industrial wastewater treatment for denitrification and other materials are being considered.
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