CASA Dearden 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...

University College London (UCL) is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity for Home applicants at the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources. The project applies Bayesian statistics and machine learning to fuel poverty and net-zero housing. The research will develop innovative methods to identify retrofit need at the building level using large-scale housing data. It will combine machine learning, building simulation and spatial Bayesian modelling to support evidence-based housing r...

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...

Where Waste Goes — The Political Economy of Informal Disposal is an interdisciplinary PhD project at Queen Mary University of London, within the Leverhulme Living with Waste Doctoral Programme and Queen Mary Business School. The research investigates informal waste disposal and environmental inequality by bringing together machine learning, artificial intelligence, satellite imagery, development economics, and political economy. The doctoral researcher will explore how remote sensing and AI can ...

[4-year studentship with an annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate of £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per year enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full programme. Open to Home (UK) and international applicants; project is in competition for funding.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester focuses on building an AI-enabled system to automate the behavioural observation method MOHAWk (Method for Observing pHysical Activity and Wellbeing). The pro...