Joel Dearden 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...

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 ...

[Full tuition fees and a tax-free stipend of £18,000 per year.] Applications are invited for a funded PhD studentship at the University of West London focused on AI optimisation of green roofs and green facades for low-carbon, heat-resilient buildings . This project will develop an AI-enabled decision-support framework to evaluate how building-integrated green infrastructure can reduce operational carbon, lower building energy demand, and improve thermal comfort in urban settings. The research b...

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...