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Tag Archives: PhD
Retail Focused Funded PhD Available – Suburban Mobility: Shopping and Older People
A fully funded three year PhD is available for Autumn 2019 start. This research project explores features of the retail environment that enable older people to use local neighbourhood and high street shops as well as participate and keep mobile in … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Ageing, Architecture, Community, Consumers, Design, Health, Healthy Ageing, High Streets, Older consumers, PhD, Places, Planning, Public Realm, Scotland's Town and High Streets, Shopping, Streets, Streetscapes, Town Centre Living, Town Centres, Towns, Uncategorized, University of Stirling
Tagged Access, Ageing, Community, Consumers, Design, Health, High Streets, Mobility, Neighbourhoods, Older People, PhD, PhD. Retail, Places, Shopping, University of Stirling
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Fully Funded ESRC Collaborative PhD Studentship on Scottish convenience store retailing
Three Year Fully Funded ESRC Collaborative PhD Studentship on ‘Scottish convenience store retailing; understanding local impacts and cost drivers to enhance performance’ – Now Open for Applications A few weeks ago I gave preliminary notice of our success in obtaining … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Association of Convenience Stores, Convenience stores, ESRC, Food Retailing, Independents, PhD, Retail Economy, Retailers, Scotland, Scottish Grocers Federation, Scottish Local Retailer, Sustainability, University of Stirling
Tagged Convenience stores, ESRC, Local Retailers, PhD, PhD. Retail, Scottish Grocers Federation, University of Stirling
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Announcement: ESRC PhD Studentship 2016
Fully Funded ESRC PhD on Scottish convenience store retailing; understanding local impacts and cost drivers to enhance performance Last week I had one of those great emails, bringing good news. I had been successful again in the ESRC Scottish Graduate … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Association of Convenience Stores, Community Grocer, Convenience stores, Costs, ESRC, Food Retailing, Local Multiplier, Local Retailers, PhD, Retail Economy, Scottish Grocers Federation
Tagged Convenience stores, Costs, Local Economy, Local Multiplier, Local Retailers, Operations, PhD, PhD. Retail, Scottish Grocers Federation
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The Wrong Vocabulary?
One of the recurring themes within this blog, and some of the writings and papers it has reported on, is the inexactitude of many of the terms and concepts that we use in discussing retail change. Going beyond that, I … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Bill Grimsey, Community, ESRC, High Streets, Local Data Company, Mary Portas, PhD, Places, Scotland's Town and High Streets, Town Centre Review, Town Centres, Towns, Vacancies
Tagged ESRC, High Streets, Local Data Company, PhD, Places, Reviews, Town Centres, towns, Vacancy, Vocabulary
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Fully Funded ESRC PhD Studentship Available
As I have blogged before, we have been successful in obtaining a fully-funded ESRC Phd Studentship to study Scotland’s Town Centres. This is a three year collaborative award with myself and Anne Findlay as the Academic Supervisors and Matthew Hopkinson … Continue reading
Posted in ESRC, Local Data Company, PhD, Retailers, Scotland's Town and High Streets, Town Centres, Vacancies
Tagged ESRC, Local Data Company, PhD, Studentship, towns
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Three Year ESRC Collaborative PhD Studentship Open for Applications
A few weeks ago I gave preliminary notice of our success in obtaining an ESRC Phd Studentship to study Scotland’s Town Centres. This is a three year collaborative award with myself and Anne Findlay as the Academic Supervisors and Matthew … Continue reading