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Agricultural Research Farm Hand position at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia, supporting the Cotton Breeding Group and hands-on cotton research at the Australian Cotton Research Institute in Narrabri, NSW. This role focuses on Agriculture , with related interests in Biology and Environmental Science . The successful candidate will help develop improved cotton varieties for Australia’s cotton industry through field and glasshouse research, sowi...

Funded PhD studentships are being advertised through the MIBTP programme, with projects linked to animal behaviour, animal welfare, veterinary education, farm animal welfare, and epigenetics. The post highlights several opportunities associated with Harper Adams University and collaborators, including work on Eurasian red squirrels, welfare practices in veterinary education, the impact of farm animal use in education, and the long-term effects of captivity in common carp. These are research-focu...

PhD opportunity at Harper Adams University in dairy cattle welfare , animal behaviour , and environmental enrichment . The project asks whether enriching the rearing environment of dairy heifers can improve welfare and whether those benefits continue into first lactation. The research will follow heifers from rearing through early lactation and will combine behavioural observations , precision livestock technologies , and measures of health and physiology . The aim is to generate practical recom...

PhD position available in the Mort lab at Lancaster University on cattle genetics , with a focus on pigmentation genetics in dairy cattle and how this research can help build resilience to climate change . This opportunity is described as an exciting collaboration with Davina Hill at the University of Glasgow and Barbara Shih at Lancaster University . The post is aimed at students interested in animal genetics, livestock biology, and applied research with agricultural relevance. No funding detai...

A fully funded PhD position is available in the School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University , Sydney, Australia, in the area of navigational strategies of jumping spiders . The project is based in the Ecological Neuroscience Group and will focus on a comparative analysis of navigation strategies in jumping spiders. The work includes research on animal navigation, ecological neuroscience, comparative biology, and fieldwork across different habitats in Australia. This PhD opportunity is for...