Funded PhD SWBio DTP (CASE): Does Regenerative Agriculture Support Pollinator Populations? University of Bristol in United Kingdom

Marion Pfeifer, Professor in Forest Landscape Restoration at Newcastle University, is recruiting two fully funded PhD students for the ERC Advanced Investigator Grant project TIF-CER: From Forests to Fields to Sustainable Rural Landscapes: A Multiscale Framework for Quantifying Biodiversity and Climate Interrelationships . The two PhD projects are based in the TROPS lab at Newcastle University and focus on: - Mechanisms driving water use in tree-based agricultural systems - Wildlife connectivity...

Harper Adams University is advertising two PhD projects in insect behaviour and sustainable pest management through the BBSRC-funded Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) , with a start date in October 2027 . The first project, Who chooses the mummy’s microclimate? , asks whether a developing parasitoid wasp can influence where its aphid host moves. It combines behavioural tracking and microclimate experiments to test whether these movements improve parasitoid survival un...

PhD Opportunity: Behaviour before abundance — can aphid behaviour warn us of an outbreak before their numbers rise? This PhD project explores whether early behavioural changes in aphids can predict population growth, dispersal, or decline before visible outbreaks occur. The work combines computer vision , insect feeding measurements , and Bayesian modelling to investigate behaviour-based forecasting for sustainable agriculture and pest management. The opportunity is ideal for applicants interest...

PhD opportunity at Cranfield University in legume nitrogen dynamics, greenhouse-gas mitigation, regenerative agriculture, and sustainable cropping . This fully funded PhD is hosted by Cranfield University in the Cranfield Environment Centre (United Kingdom) and is supported by the EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award . Funding includes Home fees and a £24,500 annual tax-free stipend for three years. The project investigates how legumes influence nitrogen cycling , crop performance , nitrogen-use effic...

PhD opportunity: Engineering gene drives for pest insect suppression at the University of East Anglia (School of Biological Sciences), with primary supervision by Professor Tracey Chapman . This project focuses on gene drives , CRISPR , genetic engineering , genetics , and agricultural pest suppression . The target organism is the Mediterranean fruitfly (medfly), a major global agricultural pest. The research aims to build, test, and optimise components needed to move gene-drive technology close...