University of Exeter PhD Scholarship

[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...

CENTA PhD Studentships are available through the University of Warwick School of Life Sciences as part of a consortium of universities and research institutes working within the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) remit. These are doctoral research opportunities in environmental and life sciences, with training across scientific and technical skills, research management, engagement/impact/enterprise, and personal effectiveness. The page highlights PhD projects and funded studentships, in...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per year enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This 4-year PhD project at The University of Manchester focuses on the use of geospatial foundation models to improve the monitoring of smallholder agricultural systems from satellite data. The work sits at the intersection of Earth Observation , remote sensing , and agricultural mapping, with an emphasis on u...

Applications are open for the 2027 CENTA PhD studentships, with projects across environmental science, Earth systems, climate, biodiversity, water, pollution, environmental modelling, data science, and Earth observation. The post highlights two projects involving Heiko Balzter at the University of Leicester, focused on Earth observation, environmental change, and using data and modelling to understand a changing environment. These are project-based PhD opportunities open to UK and international ...

The University of Exeter is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity in Computer Science for a prospective student from China interested in machine learning, Earth observation and forests. The project, “Improving confidence in continuous forest type classification maps when ground truth data are scarce,” will investigate computational approaches for producing more reliable forest classification maps in situations where labelled ground-truth data are limited. The research brings together machine l...