Student research project
Who gets daylight?
Inequalities in access to biologically relevant daytime light.
The question
Access to daytime light depends on more than personal choice. How do housing, work and neighbourhood environments shape opportunities for light exposure, and how might those opportunities be unequally distributed?
The project
Study daylight access as an environmental and social question. A focused project could connect evidence about light exposure with spatial data, environmental characteristics or accounts of everyday routines. Available data will determine which inequalities can be examined responsibly.
What you will do
- Review how daylight access and biologically relevant exposure are measured or represented.
- Develop a reproducible analysis of a defined dataset or an evidence-based assessment of one setting.
- Evaluate proxy measures, uncertainty and the limits of claims about individual exposure.
Possible scope
A thesis could develop a spatial or social analysis. A shorter placement could assess data sources or a bounded measurement question. Geography, public health, architecture and quantitative social science are useful starting points.
How to apply
Send a short motivation, CV, relevant skills, preferred project, dates, format and location. Mention external funding. Contact Prof. Manuel Spitschan using the address below.
Location, timing and scope are agreed with the supervisor; availability depends on capacity and the work involved.