PhD Studentships Dublin City University in Ireland

Maynooth University’s Department of Biology is advertising a Post-Doctoral Researcher position in the Forest Ecology and Global Change lab for the Ancient Woodlands Ireland project. This project aims to build an all-island Ancient Woodlands Inventory for Ireland by combining established methods with new approaches. The work brings together GIS , remote sensing , paleoecology , contemporary ecology , and history to examine changes in woodland cover over the last 400 years and support woodland pro...

University College Cork is advertising two 3-year postdoctoral positions on Professor Eugene Costello’s ERC project DeepCattle , which investigates the emergence of commercial cattle farming in Europe and its impacts on the economy and the environment. The first role is in Early Modern History , with a focus on archival manuscripts in Scotland and Ireland . The second role is in Palaeoecology , with a focus on pollen analysis and sedaDNA , and includes collaboration with the Centre for Palaeogen...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Biology at Maynooth University, Ireland The Biology Department at Maynooth University is recruiting a Post Doctoral Researcher for the Ancient Woodlands Ireland project. This is a full-time, fixed-term research post in Biology with strong links to Environmental Science , Geography , Earth Science , and Geology-related landscape change research through the use of GIS, remote sensing, paleoecology, and historical woodland analysis. The project aims to build an all-island...

University College Cork is inviting applications for a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Early Modern History to join the DeepCattle project, a 5-year ERC Consolidator Grant led by Professor Eugene Costello in the School of History and Radical Humanities Laboratory . DeepCattle is an interdisciplinary project in global environmental history that investigates the pre-industrial origins of commercial cattle farming across Europe, c.1240-1840 AD. The project examines how the expansion of beef and dairy p...

This PhD project at the University of Limerick focuses on enhancing biodiversity and selected ecosystem services within industrial landscapes through evidence-based land management. The research combines ecological field surveys with experimental management interventions to identify practical strategies that can improve biodiversity, soil function, and carbon storage while still supporting operational land-use requirements. Working in collaboration with industry partners, the PhD candidate will ...