PhD Studentship: Detecting Ecological Change in Intertidal Habitats Using Repeat Photography and Machine Learning University of Exeter in United Kingdom

[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...

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...

[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...

Edinburgh DataLab is offering funding opportunities connected with the MSc Artificial Intelligence and Data Science programme at Edinburgh Napier University. The programme is intended for advanced study in artificial intelligence, data science and related computational methods. The opportunity is associated with Edinburgh Napier University in Edinburgh, UK, and applies to the 2026/27 academic cycle with a January start. Students will join a postgraduate learning environment focused on the theory...

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...