PhD opportunities at CRIC

Our researchers are interested in PhD supervision in the following areas:

• Advertising and cultural intermediaries
• Biotechnology, bio-economy
• City-regions and their (re) emergence as a salient scale of governance
• Community, friendship and consumption
• Counterfeiting, peer-to-peer networks
• Digital games, video games, computer games
• Dynamics of innovation in medicine, genomics and biotechnology
• Economic development and environmental policy
• Economic development and innovation
• Economic perspectives on the knowledge economy
• Economic, social and ethical issues of Nano-Science and Technologies (NST)
• Economic sociology of markets and competition
• Economic sociology of markets and non-market modes of provisioning and consumption
• Economic sociology of technology and innovation
• Economies of knowledge
• Emergent renewable energies & technologies from a social science perspective
• Environmental sustainability
• Environmental sustainability and the emerging bio-economy
• Everyday life and the domestic sphere
• Evolution medical technologies and health innovation systems
• Expenditure patterns of young people
• Food consumption and provisioning
• Geographies and (multiple) scales of governance and economic transformation
• Global comparative, historical and qualitative institutional methodology
• Identity-formation and belonging
• Industrial ecology and innovation
• Identity-formation and belonging
• Industry-academic links and the higher education system
• Industry design and innovation
• Industrial ecology and innovation
• Industry evolution
• Information systems and organisational design
• Information technology/information society developments
• Information technology and learning
• Innovation and development
• Innovation and employment
• Innovation and science and technology in developing countries
• Innovation and the emergence of new sectors
• Innovation in services
• Institutions, instituted process and markets
• Knowledge intensive business services
• Knowledge intensive services, especially environmental technologies and services
• Leisure technologies
• Masculinity and friendship
• Measurement of innovation, especially organisational innovation
• Organic food consumption
• Positioning systems, ubiquituous computing
• Production-consumption and environmental sustainability
• Professions and work
• Public-private interaction in knowledge production and innovation
• Regional systems of innovation and knowledge activity
• Relationship between innovation, demand and consumption
• Retailing and practices of shopping for food
• Role of educational institutions in learning to cook
• Second home ownership
• Service-client relationships
• Service innovation and the spatial division of labour
• Social networks and community
• Social stratification and socio-economic change
• Sociology of consumption
• Sociology of technology and innovation
• Studies of economic growth and productivity particularly through the use of microdata
• Study of time and temporalities
• Sustainable consumption
• Systems of innovation (or distributed innovation processes)
• Urban and regional governance and economic change
• Varieties of capitalism and welfare regimes
• Work and consumption among young middle class men
• Work of Karl Polanyi

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