About this role
The Midlands Graduate School is an accredited Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). One of 15 such partnerships in the UK, the Midlands Graduate School is a collaboration between the Universities of Warwick, Birmingham, Nottingham, Aston Leicester, Loughborough, De Montfort and Nottingham Trent. We are now inviting applications for an ESRC Strategic Joint Studentship between University of Birmingham (where the student will be registered) and Aston University to commence in October 2026. Recently, the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) introduced policies aimed not only at reducing pollution but also reshaping Global Value Chains (GVCs) by encouraging the reshoring of certain offshore production activities. These policies seek to reduce carbon leakage, which occurs when domestic firms offshore carbon intensive activities from economies with strict environmental regulations to countries with lax rules, and then import these carbon...