PhD Studentship: Autonomous satellite-linked acoustic monitoring of biodiversity and threats in the Celtic Sea University of Exeter in United Kingdom

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship will investigate whether repeat photography, citizen science and machine learning can be combined to detect ecological change in intertidal habitats. The project addresses the challenge of monitoring highly dynamic coastal environments where conventional surveys are often limited by cost, spatial coverage and sampling frequency. The Doctoral Researcher will work on designing re...

This scholarship offers a fully funded PhD place through the NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership, a joint programme run by the Universities of Bristol, Exeter, Bath and Cardiff. It supports doctoral research in Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences over 3.5 years, with projects hosted at one of the four UK partner universities. The partnership brings together a large cohort of researchers across the natural sciences, with access to laboratory and fieldwork resources, conference support, and...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter on a project titled Sensing the Ocean Through Surfing: A New Wave in Ocean Observation . This studentship explores a novel approach to ocean monitoring by using surfers and surfboards as low-cost observation platforms. The project addresses a major challenge in oceanography: how to gather extensive observations in space and time without relying only on expensive, specialised instruments deployed fr...

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...

Warwick Fully Funded Doctoral Scholarships for 2027 are open to prospective researchers planning to start a PhD in the UK at the University of Warwick. The Doctoral College Postgraduate Research (PGR) Scholarship Competition is a centralized funding route that can place eligible applicants into consideration for multiple doctoral funding schemes with one scholarship application. Eligible study routes include PhD, MPhil/PhD, EngD, and approved MRes+PhD pathways beginning in October 2027. The comp...