PhD Studentship: Responsible innovation in metamaterials for circular economy and sustainability University of Exeter in United Kingdom

University of Birmingham is recruiting a Research Fellow for a project on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the manufacture and recycling of new energy devices. The role sits in the School of Metallurgy and Materials and is part of the European consortium project SuMaCer on sustainable manufacturing of functional ceramics for Europe’s net-zero energy devices. The successful candidate will work across environmental science , materials science , chemical engineering , and related sustainability metho...

PhD studentship opportunity at The Open University in the United Kingdom, offered through CENTA (Central England NERC Training Alliance) . The project is based in Milton Keynes and is scheduled to start in October 2027 . The research topic is Exploring How the Values of Environmental Scientists Influence Research and Impact at Different Career Stages . It combines environmental science , sustainability , science communication , research impact , and social research . The project aims to investig...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Leicester in Leicester, UK, on urban nature , biodiversity transitions , and stakeholder collaboration . The project, titled “Reframing Urban Nature: How Can Stakeholder Collaboration Enable Public Acceptance of Biodiversity Transitions in Local Places?” , focuses on how organisations, local authorities, and communities can collaborate, communicate, and co-create nature-positive initiatives that people understand, value, and accept. This opportun...

Funded PhD opportunity at Coventry University within the Centre for Discoveries in Life Science and the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) . The project is titled Sustainable Rare Earth Element Recovery from Secondary Resources: Integrating Bioleaching, Metabolic Engineering and Life Cycle Assessment . It focuses on recovering rare earth elements from electronic waste using engineered yeast-based bioleaching, with an emphasis on microbiology , biotechnology , metabolic...

PhD in Railway Circular Economy at the University of Leeds (School of Civil Engineering). This PhD project explores sustainable solutions for railway track infrastructure through the principles of a circular economy. The research focuses on the scalable reprocessing of ballast, sleepers, rails, and other track components to convert network waste into high-quality secondary commercial materials. Possible research directions include: scalable reprocessing for spent railway ballast; structural perf...