Flood Risk and Housing Inequality: Towards Equitable Adaptation (Ref: FCDT-26-LU8) Loughborough University in United Kingdom

Bath Engineering & Design Studentships at the University of Bath are offering a PhD project on smart water-resilient housing : An Occupant-led, Lifecycle Toolkit for Climate-Resilient Homes and Neighbourhoods . This interdisciplinary project sits in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering and explores how building performance assessment , smart water data , environmental monitoring, artificial intelligence , and occupant feedback can support homes and neighbourhoods facing drought, ex...

PhD opportunity at the University of Strathclyde within the SATURN CDT on Sustainable Nuclear Landscapes: Place, Just Transitions, and Long-Term Stewardship in UK Nuclear Communities under Decommissioning . This project explores how UK nuclear communities and landscapes change as facilities move into decommissioning. It focuses on nuclear decommissioning , place-based regeneration , just transitions , long-term stewardship , human geography , urban planning , sociology , and related social-spati...

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is advertising two fully funded PhD positions for Spring or Fall 2027 in the Adaptive Urban Resilience and AI (AURA) research environment. The project sits at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence , GIS , climate resilience , infrastructure , and sustainable urban systems . Research themes include AI agents and human-centered computational modeling , urban and infrastructure resilience , and building and energy resilience . Ideal applicants come from...

Bath Engineering & Design Studentships at the University of Bath are offering a PhD project on machine learning for early warning of debris screen blockage in urban rivers . The project sits in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering and is led by Prof Thomas Kjeldsen . This research aims to develop new methods for forecasting debris and trash screen blockages in urban rivers, moving from reactive maintenance to proactive flood risk management. The project combines artificial intellig...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in Satellite Monitoring of Environmental and Climate Risks (PGR-P-2517). This project sits in Civil Engineering and focuses on remote sensing , Earth Observation , Synthetic Aperture Radar , multispectral imaging , artificial intelligence , and GIS for monitoring environmental change and climate hazards. Research themes include rapid flood and disaster impact mapping, drought and soil-moisture tracking, temperature and rainfall anomaly analysis, vegetat...