CENTA PhD Studentships in Natural Environment Research Council Research Areas University of Warwick in United Kingdom

This scholarship offers a fully funded PhD place through the NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership, a joint programme run by the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, Bath and Cardiff. It supports doctoral research in Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences over 3.5 years, with projects hosted at one of the four UK partner universities. The partnership brings together a large cohort of researchers across the natural sciences, with access to laboratory and fieldwork resources, conference support, and...

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship at the University of Exeter focuses on how Amazon forest wildfire affects soil carbon cycling, with a particular emphasis on soil respiration, soil properties, and pyrogenic carbon (charcoal) in southern Amazonian soils. The project also explores how these field and experimental results can be used to improve the JULES land surface model , linking tropical soil processes with c...

[Fully funded studentship for eligible UKRI candidates covering fees, a maintenance stipend of £21,805 p.a. for 2026/27, and a research training and support grant (RTSG). A limited number of studentships are available for international applicants, with the difference between home and international fees waived by the university; relocation costs, visa costs, and the health surcharge are not covered.] This PhD studentship focuses on how climate change is altering the Antarctic coastal ocean carbon...

Project 18 at the University of Sheffield is a fully funded PhD in ecology , ecotoxicology , environmental biology , and mathematical modelling . The project, titled The ecology of toxicological non-target effects , is supervised by Prof Andrew Beckerman with Prof David Spurgeon and Dr N Galic as named project supervisors. The research asks how species interactions mediate the impacts of chemical stress on biodiversity, especially in terrestrial ecosystems. It uses advanced computational modelli...

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship will investigate whether repeat photography, citizen science and machine learning can be combined to detect ecological change in intertidal habitats. The project addresses the challenge of monitoring highly dynamic coastal environments where conventional surveys are often limited by cost, spatial coverage and sampling frequency. The Doctoral Researcher will work on designing re...