PhD Studentship: CENTA 2027-B15 Embedding Biodiversity Protection into Battery Supply Chains University of Birmingham in United Kingdom

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per year enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This 4-year PhD project at The University of Manchester focuses on the use of geospatial foundation models to improve the monitoring of smallholder agricultural systems from satellite data. The work sits at the intersection of Earth Observation , remote sensing , and agricultural mapping, with an emphasis on u...

Applications are open for the 2027 CENTA PhD studentships, with projects across environmental science, Earth systems, climate, biodiversity, water, pollution, environmental modelling, data science, and Earth observation. The post highlights two projects involving Heiko Balzter at the University of Leicester, focused on Earth observation, environmental change, and using data and modelling to understand a changing environment. These are project-based PhD opportunities open to UK and international ...

PhD opportunity at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom on predicting acid sulfate soils for safer restoration and land management. The project sits at the intersection of Earth Science , Environmental Science , Geography , Statistics , and Computer Science , with strong emphasis on soil science , GIS , predictive mapping , machine learning , and soil biogeochemistry . The research investigates how reliably existing soil information predicts acid sulfate soil occurrence in the UK, and whet...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter focused on advancing multi-mission satellite radar methods for monitoring permafrost degradation and erosion in a changing Arctic. This project addresses a major environmental monitoring challenge: Arctic permafrost thaw is driving ground deformation, instability, and erosion across remote regions where in situ observations are limited. The PhD will develop a new multi-mission InSAR framework that ...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on modelling coevolution in aquatic environments shaped by flow. This funded doctoral project explores how microbes and viruses coevolve when fluid flow separates and reconnects populations in aquatic systems. The research asks how historical coevolution influences future interactions, how long coevolutionary signatures persist, and what happens when descendants encounter one another again after pe...