Durham Masters Bursaries

🎓 CENTA is advertising a fully funded PhD opportunity in Earth and Environmental Sciences for an Autumn 2027 start. The call is for the CENTA Science Opportunity Scholarships , aimed at applicants from ethnic minority backgrounds who are Home-award-eligible . Successful students will receive an annual stipend , Home-level tuition fees paid in full , and a Research Training Support Grant to help cover research costs, training, and conference attendance. A distinctive feature of the scheme is that...

Doctoral Training Partnership Scholarships are available at University of Nottingham Ningbo China in collaboration with Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR, CAS) . The available PhD research areas are Environmental Sciences and Geography , making this a strong fit for students interested in environmental research, spatial analysis, and natural resource-related topics. The scholarship covers tuition fees and a monthly stipend of RMB ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom in Geological Sciences , with a focus on mineralogical controls on redox chemistry within the subsurface . This experimental project sits at the interface of geochemistry , mineralogy , environmental science , and nuclear environmental safety , and is supported by the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory. The project investigates how redox conditions influence porewater chemistry and the transport/fate of radionuclides and chemo...

[Fully funded studentship with home tuition fee waiver, a living costs stipend at the UKRI recommended level (£21,805 for 2026-27), and a £10,000 research allowance in total. Additional support includes £2,500 through Proficio for training courses.] PhD Studentship: Implementation of the Human Right to Water at the University of Essex is an interdisciplinary research opportunity within the Sustainable Transitions – Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme . The project examines how the human right...

PhD scholarship at the University of Exeter in Computer Science , Machine Learning , and Earth Observation for forest-related applications. The project focuses on using large-scale satellite and lidar/radar datasets to understand forests and improve algorithms for real-world environmental problems. Possible application areas include: characterising forest variation near pre-Columbian earthworks in the Amazon, predicting mixed-forest composition and intra-variability across Europe, or quantifying...