PhD Studentship: Can we trust AI to help save biodiversity? University of Exeter in United Kingdom

[Funded through the CENTA3 DLA by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Funding covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant. International students are eligible up to 30% of the cohort, but additional moving/residing costs in the UK are not covered.] This PhD studentship sits within a biodiversity-focused project that aims to build a digital twin for freshwater lake ecosystems , using environmental data and sediment-core environmenta...

[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...

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...

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...

[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 developing an autonomous, satellite-linked acoustic monitoring payload for biodiversity and threat detection in the Celtic Sea. The project combines marine soundscape science with physical ocean-state sensing to support real-time environmental monitoring. The research addresses how to distinguish biological signals from background noise in...