Integrating food production, renewable energy generation, and biodiversity conservation University of Reading in United Kingdom

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...

Harper Adams University is recruiting for a fully funded PhD opportunity on nutrient recovery from animal slurries and anaerobic digestates for crop use . The project sits within the BBSRC-funded Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) and is aimed at developing novel on-farm methods to convert slurry and digestate into designer crop nutrient products and water. This PhD is a strong fit for students interested in agriculture , animal science , agronomy , livestock productio...

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...

PhD opportunity at the University of Exeter in Economics , focused on devolution of agri-environmental policy for enhancing nature and achieving net zero . The project sits at the interface of environmental science , data science , machine learning , statistics , economics , and agriculture . It asks how national environmental objectives and budgets should be translated into regional and local decisions, and how those decisions should adapt under uncertainty. The student will work with high-reso...

Ulster University is advertising a fully funded PhD opportunity in Assessing nature-based solutions for upland catchment resilience . The project is based in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Ulster University in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK . The PhD will be supervised by Phil Jordan and Neil Brannigan , with co-supervision from colleagues at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute and Queen's University Belfast . Additional support is mentioned from the Co-Centre for Cli...