PhD research projects

STFC projects

Petrologic and geochemical constraints on volcanic eruptions on Amazonian Mars

Deadline to apply: Sunday 2 February 2025, 23:59 GMT

Salt hydrates at high pressure and low temperature: Implications for icy moon explorations

Deadline to apply: Sunday 2 February 2025, 23:59 GMT

GW4+ projects

Discovery, species diversity, and utilisation of parasitoids using AI in a genomic framework

Deadline to apply: Monday 13 January 2025, 23:59 GMT 

Diversity and ecology of glacier cyanobacteria in the Polar Regions

Deadline to apply: Monday 13 January 2025, 23:59 GMT 

Carbon budgets for glacial landscapes: the role of microbes in storing and releasing carbon

Deadline to apply: Monday 13 January 2025, 23:59 GMT 

Crunchy with Crystals: unravelling the eruptive pathways of the domes and flows of the Morne Plat Plays volcanic complex, Dominica

Deadline to apply: Monday 13 January 2025, 23:59 GMT 

CENTA projects

A multi-angle study of secondarily aquatic vertebrate evolution

Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025, 23:59 GMT

IGNITE DLA projects

Eco-evolutionary consequences of altered predator-prey interactions under tropicalisation

Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025

Comparing cryptobenthic fishes: from cool climates to coral reefs

Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025

Spatial scaling of benthic biodiversity in an abyssal deep-sea mining province: ecological and genomic approaches

Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025

Disparities in species divergence: the genomics of large vs small genera

Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025

Adaptation to extreme environments: Evolution of unusual body plans in Southern Ocean Echinoids

Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025

Exploring the eruptive behaviour of a rare young stratovolcano

Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025

CROCUS DLA projects

Life in mines: exploring and harnessing the hidden microbiology of mine tailings, a journey of discovery and restoration

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025

Impacts of light pollution and other drivers on UK moth communities and associated plant pollination

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025

Molecular ecology of meiofaunal communities in restored and natural seagrass meadows

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025

Eruption triggers and timescales at ‘hyperactive’ subduction zone volcanoes

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025

Biodiversity, biogeography and ecology of red calcified coralline algae of Britain

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025

Birds in a changing world - insights from avian collections

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025

OneZoo CDT projects

Rhythms of Infection: Understanding the Circadian Control of Schistosome Development in Snails

Deadline to apply: Friday 31 January 2025, 23:59 GMT

Using comparative genomics of schistosome species to better understand the molecular basis of zoonoses

Deadline to apply: Friday 31 January 2025, 23:59 GMT

NERC ACCE DLA projects

AHRC LAHP projects

The evolution of body size, shape and locomotor ecology in tetrapods

Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025

Understanding ‘Place’ in Historical Botanical Collections: science, commerce, empire, and the early-modern herbarium

Deadline to apply: Friday 31 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

NERC TREES DLA projects

Elucidating the ecological, developmental, and environmental drivers of insect megadiversity

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Origin and early evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis and cyanobacteria

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Genomic diversity, adaptation and ecology of cyanobacteria in the Arctic

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Historical DNA phylogenomics: a novel approach to problems in flatworm systematics

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Evolution of basaltic magmatic systems: the centennial activity of Mt Etna volcano (Southern Italy)

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Quantifying the global human-wildlife interface

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Financial de-risking products to value biodiversity's role in reducing impacts of natural disasters

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

How do we assess change in parasitoid wasp populations?

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Exploring the Deep Earth through Non-Destructive Analysis of Diamond Inclusions

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Diversity and evolution of burrowing frog visual systems

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Next-generation biodiversity indicators

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Fruit bats in a changing world

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Mapping Gene Flow Across the Animal Kingdom: Insights into Species Boundaries and Evolutionary Processes

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Thermoelastic properties of subducted crustal materials

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Shark ecology and biodiversity during the mid-Cretaceous

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Evolution of vision and adaptations to the deep-sea in gastropods

Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

AI-INTERVENE projects

Retrodeformation and Phenomic Data Capture from Fossils to Reconstruct Response to Past Mass Extinction and Global Climate Change

Deadline to apply: Monday 27 January 2025

Evolution of vision and adaptations to the deep-sea in gastropods

Deadline to apply: Monday 27 January 2025

Quantifying Species Distributions and Changes in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot using Museum Specimens and AI

Deadline to apply: Monday 27 January 2025

AI4Plants: Unlocking Plant Biodiversity Insights with AI and Computer Vision

Deadline to apply: Monday 27 January 2025