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PhD Studentship: Dust, the Atlantic Ocean, and Climate
Scientific background The Atlantic Ocean has warmed significantly over the last few years partly from increasing greenhouse gases, but other climate forcing agents also play a role. In…
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PhD Studentship: Listening to La Soufrière: Fibre Optics and AI for the Next Generation of Volcano Monitoring
Scientific Background A major challenge in volcanology is understanding and anticipating transitions in volcanic activity. Subtle changes within volcanic systems can precede hazardous…
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PhD Studentship: Soil Carbon and Soil Health Through Landscape Transition
Scientific background: Nature-based solutions (NBS) delivered through land-use change can create new habitats, enhance biodiversity, and increase carbon sequestration at landscape scales.…
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PhD Studentship: Across land, oceans and the atmosphere: Decoding Earth's carbon cycle with CO2 polyisotopologues
Scientific background: Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas. The 2015 Paris Agreement aims to avoid dangerous climate change by reducing emissions of CO2…
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PhD Studentship: Postreproductive Maternal Care and the Evolution of Sex Differences in Lifespan
Scientific background Why do some animals continue to live long after they have stopped reproducing? Classical evolutionary theory predicts that they should not. The force of natural…
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PhD Studentship: The Cycling of Climate-active Sulfur Compounds by Major Crops
Scientific background: Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) is known as a marine anti-stress compound made by algae and bacteria. It has key roles in global nutrient and sulfur cycling,…
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PhD Studentship: Balancing Wheat Rust Resilience and Soil Microbial Diversity
Scientific background: Plant-microbe relationships are shaped by complex, root-exuded metabolites that vary by host genotype and can be augmented to enhance agricultural productivity. In…
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PhD Studentship: Understanding the Evolution of How Plants Perceive Changes in the Environment
Scientific Background Plants modify the concentration of calcium ions in their cells in response to different environmental stimuli and stresses. These changes in cellular calcium…
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PhD Studentship: Exploring the magmatic plumbing system of the Eastern Caribbean volcanic arc
Scientific Background One of the key challenges in volcanology is understanding changes in volcanic activities during periods of unrest, particularly transitions from effusive to eruptive…
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PhD Studentship: Climate change impacts on the Antarctic coastal ocean carbon sink
Scientific background: Remote Southern Ocean waters take up ten percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by human activity, effectively slowing down global climate change. Wintertime sea…
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PhD Studentship (Part-Time) in Control Systems and Robotics (Postgraduate Research Teaching Associate)
Research theme: Control Systems and Robotics Number of positions available: 1 Applications are invited for a part-time PhD position within the Control Systems and Robotics Group at The…
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PhD Studentship: The Oxford Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Training Programme (ILESLA)
4 Year, full-time PhD studentship Eligibility: Home UK/EU and International applicants Bursary p.a.: The stipend is at the UKRI rate (currently £21,805 for the academic year 2026/27), plus…
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PhD in Economics
The Department of Economics at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) is inviting applications for entry into its PhD programme. The PhD programme is a 4-year programme and is open…
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PhD Studentship: Research Studentship in Control Engineering- Sustainable and Circular AI Systems
Research Studentship on Sustainable and Circular AI Systems 3.5-year D.Phil. studentship Project: Sustainable and Circular AI Systems Supervisors: Prof Lucia Corsini The DPhil student will…
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School of Law, Education and Society PhD Studentship 2026–27
School of Law, Education and Society PhD Studentship 2026–27 One Fully Funded PhD Research Studentship (start date 1 March 2027; closing date for applications 4 January 2027) The University…
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PhD project: Resilient Processes of Nuclear Fusion Plant Maintenance and Decommissioning using Robotic Technologies
Supervised by Rasa Remenyte-Prescott (Faculty of Engineering) Aim: To develop a modelling approach for nuclear fusion plant maintenance and decommissioning processes More than 80% of the…
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PhD Project: Microgrid Resilience
Supervised by Rasa Remenyte-Prescott and Marco Rivera (Faculty of Engineering) Aim: To develop a modelling approach for assessing microgrid resilience The deployment of renewable energy…
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PhD Project: Modelling Resilience of Water Distribution Networks
Supervised by Rasa Remenyte-Prescott (Faculty of Engineering) Aim: To develop a modelling approach for assessing water network resilience One of the essential networks for society is water…
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PhD project: Railway Asset Degradation and Management Modelling for Climate Change
Supervised by Rasa Remenyte-Prescott (Faculty of Engineering) Aim: To include climate change effects into railway asset degradation and asset management modelling Bridges are vital to the…
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PhD Studentship: Multiscale Physics of Deformation and Failure in Polymer Networks
3.5-year D.Phil. studentship Supervisor: Professor Laurence Brassart Many soft materials, such as elastomers and hydrogels, consist of networks of interconnected polymer chains. Their…