Business sponsored Master's by Research with Enviroo
Entry requirements
This Masters by Research will be based within Lancaster University’s Psychology department, however there is an element of business and marketing to the research. Therefore applicants should have either a first class or a 2:1 degree in Psychology (or a related discipline). Applicants should preferably have interests in inter alia sustainability, environmental issues and recycling. The Graduate Researcher will be supervised by Professor Mark Levine and Dr Mark Hurlstone in Psychology.
Months of entry
October
Course content
Get paid to do a Masters with the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation at Lancaster University and Enviroo
Details:
- Get paid £16,000 tax-free
- Have your tuition fees reduced. Your partner company pays £2,200 towards your fees, meaning students eligible for home fees pay only £2,300. International students will need to pay the remaining £20,050.
- Be part of the multi award winning Centre for Global Eco-Innovation within a cohort of talented graduates working on exciting business-led R&D.
- The Centre is based at Lancaster University, so you will gain your Masters from a Top Ten University, recognised as The Sunday Times University of the Year 2018 and International University of the Year 2020.
- Finish in a strong position to enter a competitive job market in the UK and overseas or progress on to further study.
The Challenge
How can we incentivise consumers to recycle on the go?
Within the home, most of us have become quite used to sorting our rubbish and recycling. However, this behaviour doesn’t seem to have transferred to when we are ‘on-the-go’ as most of the packaging and waste we consume goes straight to landfill. Enviroo Ltd plan to develop a customised reverse vending machine that can collect consumers recyclable waste on-the-go. This project will investigate how best to encourage consumers to continually use this facility.
This 1 year Masters by Research project will investigate why there is a discrepancy in people’s recycling behaviours i.e. between recycling at home and on the go. The focus will be on determining the attitudes, motivations and likely incentives in order to change people’s behaviour and make on-the-go recycling habitual. The project will also investigate how to make a deposit return scheme successful (rather than just a one-off occasional behaviour); what products the consumer would be interested in recycling and how best to incentivise consumers to use these machines to recycle on the go.
Enterprise and Collaborative Partners
Enviroo Ltd will be part sponsoring this Masters by Research project and are in the process of building a recycling plant in the North West UK which will recycle 100% of the Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastic waste that it receives and create ‘food-grade’ polymers from this. They are passionate about creating a closed loop recycling method, with long term viability and their ethos is to bridge the current gap between consumers and circular economy stakeholders.
Start: October 2021
Deadline: Midnight Sunday 29th August 2021
For details on the application process and to apply click here
Information for international students
For information on home/international fee eligibility please see the university fee status webpage
Fees and funding
This project is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund and is subject to funding confirmation.
Qualification, course duration and attendance options
- MA(Res)
- full time12 months
- Distance learningis available for this qualification
Course contact details
- Name
- The Centre for Global Eco-Innovation
- applications@cgeinnovation.org