AFRI-CAN ERC Synergy Grant Studentship

[3-year funded PhD studentship with stipend covering maintenance and fee costs; immigration health surcharge and visa fees covered for non-UK citizens; fieldwork costs and selected conference attendance covered; maintenance payments also covered during parental leave.] This 3-year PhD studentship is part of the Zambezian Entanglements in the South-Central African Iron Age (ZAMBEZI) project, an ERC Advanced Grant project led from the University of Cambridge and carried out in collaboration with t...

The University of Cambridge invites applications for a 3-year funded PhD studentship in Archaeology starting in April 2027. The project, Zambezian Entanglements in the South-Central African Iron Age (ZAMBEZI) , is funded through an ERC Advanced Grant and is based at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. The doctoral research will focus on archaeobotany, plant use, agricultural practice and landscape change. The successful candidate will analyse data generated through flotation of m...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] University of Exeter is offering a PhD studentship on Digital twinning for post-mining environmental transitions . This project addresses the challenge of what happens to mines, quarries, and other extractive landscapes when ore bodies become exhausted or uneconomic, with a focus on building more sustainable and resilient post-mining futures. The research explores how former mine sites can be reused for a range of purposes, including resourc...

The Hydrological Remote Sensing Lab (HydroRS) at the University of South Florida is recruiting Ph.D. students for research in hydrological remote sensing starting Spring 2027 or Fall 2027. The lab works on interdisciplinary water resources research using satellite observations, remote sensing, AI/ML, and geospatial technologies to study the changing water cycle and water crises at regional to global scales. Example topics include hydrological extremes, trends and drivers of freshwater storage, h...

PhD scholarship in the use of SWOT for small-scale ocean processes at DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark in Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark . This PhD project focuses on ocean modelling , remote sensing , satellite altimetry , SWOT observations (Surface Water and Ocean Topography), and scientific machine learning . The research aims to assimilate SWOT sea-surface height observations into a high-resolution ocean model with a focus on the Polar Regions , improving understanding of small-scale ocean p...