Leverhulme Doctoral Programme

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...

ARIES DTP is offering fully funded PhD studentship opportunities for an October 2027 start, focused on environmental research and doctoral study of the changing planet. The programme spans five broad research themes: Ecology and Biodiversity ; Marine, Atmospheric and Climate Sciences ; Geosciences, Resources and Environmental Risk ; Environmental Genomics and Microbiology ; and Agri-environments and Water . Projects are intended for researchers interested in understanding natural systems and tac...

NorthWestBio is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship for international students starting 4 October 2027 . The programme is led by the University of Glasgow in partnership with Lancaster University , Queen’s University Belfast , and the University of Strathclyde . This doctoral training programme focuses on biosciences and interdisciplinary research across the themes of animal health , plant resilience and yield , and pathogen biology and disease . It is designed to provide cohort-based...

This PhD opportunity at Durham University investigates how global bird communities are changing under land-use and climate change. The project addresses an important challenge in biodiversity science: bird monitoring data are often unevenly distributed and may not represent environmental changes across the wider regions where monitoring takes place. The doctoral researcher will link bird survey time series from three continents with environmental change data. The work will assess whether monitor...

NorthWestBio is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship for international candidates starting 4 October 2027 . The programme is a doctoral landscape award led by the University of Glasgow in partnership with Lancaster University , Queen’s University Belfast , and University of Strathclyde . This interdisciplinary doctoral training programme focuses on biosciences and related research themes including animal health , plant resilience and yield , pathogen biology , disease , and sustainabil...