PhD Studentship: How do Peatland Restoration Activities Influence Drought Resilience and the Reliability of Water Supplies Under Future Climate Pressures? University of Exeter in United Kingdom

This funded PhD project investigates what happens on land when temperatures exceed 1.5°C and examines the long-term consequences of climate “overshoot.” The research will combine geochemical datasets with climate model simulations to determine how land systems respond to past, present and future warming. By connecting evidence from different climate periods with modelled future conditions, the project will contribute to improved assessments of the environmental consequences of exceeding 1.5°C of...

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship at the University of Exeter explores how dynamic rivers reshape floodplain landscapes and alter flood impacts over time. The project is centred on the problem that many flood risk models still treat rivers and floodplains as static, even though rapidly migrating channels can change flood conveyance capacity and create new patterns of exposure. The successful student will invest...

[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 for up to 30% of the cohort, but funding does not cover additional moving or residing costs in the UK.] This PhD studentship investigates how biodiversity protection can be embedded into battery supply chains, with a particular focus on lithium and cobalt extraction in ecolog...

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...