The impact of particulate air pollutants on bacteria and how pollutant-adapted bacteria interact with human respiratory epithelium University of Leicester in United Kingdom

💡 Funded PhD opportunity in Air Quality and Environmental Science at the University of Stirling . The project, titled “From sensors to solutions: understanding and reducing air pollution exposure in everyday environments” , is funded through the NERC Iapetus DTP . The research asks what people are actually breathing in the places where they spend time, and how air pollution exposure can be reduced in real-world settings. The project is flexible and can be adapted to the applicant’s background an...

PhD opportunity at the University of Sheffield in behaviour change, environmental science, pollution reduction, and social science methodologies . This project asks: How do you turn an exhibition into a behaviour change intervention that can reduce pollution? It is part of the NERC-funded ECOSOLUTIONS Doctoral Focal Award , a transdisciplinary programme led by the Universities of Sheffield and York and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. The project is co-designed with non-academic partners a...

Global Health PhD and MScR at the University of Edinburgh — postgraduate research opportunities in global health, epidemiology, public health, population health, infectious disease, health inequalities, e-health/tele-medicine, migration and minority ethnic health, sexual and reproductive health, and related interdisciplinary areas. The programme is based in the School of Population Health Sciences and the Usher Institute , with research links across the Centre for Global Health , Centre for Popu...

The University of Bristol is recruiting two postdoctoral Research Associates/Senior Research Associates to join Dr Eunice Lo’s UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship team and the Climate and Health Research Group. The Futureproof project develops weather-health prediction science to strengthen the climate resilience of the NHS. The successful researchers will analyse weather forecasts, climate datasets, human health and healthcare data; run environmental-epidemiology models; and produce weather-health f...

Exciting fully funded PhD studentship in Environmental Science at Brunel University of London . The project investigates how PFAS move from the environment into the food chain and the potential risks they pose to human health. The advertised research theme is From Environment to Fork: Environmental Fate, bioavailability and soil-to-plant transfer of PFAS , with a strong focus on environmental pollution , food-chain contamination , bioavailability , soil-to-plant transfer , and human-health risk ...