Queen Mary University of London Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarships (QMUL-LTDS) Programme
Co-directed by Professors Jef Huysmans, who took over from Professor Engin Isin after his retirement, and Kimberley Hutchings, QMUL-LTDS involves twenty-one PhD research projects over six years (2018-2023) with an extension until 1 July 2025 because of interrupting students. These projects concern with how the world is being dynamically constituted by mobile people in active and novel ways and how this affects fundamental social and political institutions.
Please have a look at Mobile People Projects Summary [DOC 15KB].
Its aim is to generate theories, concepts, methods, and data that are necessary to understand mobility as a way of life – not as an exception but as an emerging norm. Current research demonstrates that developments in human mobility are interrelated with the ways in which they are studied, interpreted, documented, and managed. Thus, thinking about mobility as a way of life entails reflexivity about the processes of producing knowledge about mobile lives in an increasingly mobile world: how we study, manage, govern, and imagine it.