Place-based PhD exploring intersections of queer ecology, non-human entities, and the concept of Country in Indigenous Australian contexts Edith Cowan University in Australia

Geoff Gurr, Distinguished Professor of Applied Ecology at Charles Sturt University, shares advice for prospective research students interested in PhD study and scholarship-funded opportunities in Applied Ecology . The post is not a formal vacancy announcement, but it is useful guidance for applicants considering research with his lab at Charles Sturt University in Australia . It emphasizes the importance of contacting the right supervisor, doing background research on the supervisor’s work, and ...

Macquarie University is advertising a Postdoctoral Researcher in Animal Behaviour within the School of Natural Sciences at its Wallumattagal Campus in North Ryde, Sydney , Australia. The project sits in an internationally active research environment and is part of an Australian Research Council funded study focused on how visual parameters are used to detect target stimuli under challenging visual conditions. The research is centered on butterfly courtship interactions , including establishing a...

PhD opportunity at the University of Queensland in artificial intelligence, biodiversity conservation, language barriers, evidence synthesis, and multilingual scientific communication . The project asks whether AI has reduced language barriers in conservation science across three pathways: generating evidence, synthesising evidence, and applying evidence in practice. The research is based in the School of the Environment and linked to the translatE project and the broader Kaizen Conservation Gro...

PhD opportunity at The University of Western Australia in the School of Biological Sciences with Dr Renee Firman. This funded PhD project investigates microplastic toxicity and its transgenerational implications , with a strong focus on how plastic pollution and associated chemical additives affect animal reproduction, development, and fitness across generations. The project sits at the intersection of ecology , ecotoxicology , evolution , behavioural biology , and zoology , and there is scope f...

PhD opportunity at the University of Tasmania in the School of Biological Sciences / School of Natural Sciences, Hobart, Australia. This funded PhD project focuses on soil biology , plant community composition , hydrology , and soil carbon storage in highland grasslands and alpine/sub-alpine ecosystems. The research aims to understand the drivers of carbon storage in peaty soils and how warming, drying climate conditions and drainage channels may affect decomposition, carbon inputs, and ecosyste...