PhD Studentship in Costly Signalling and Mate Search in Wild Fiddler Crabs University of Exeter in United Kingdom

The Newton International Fellowship is a prestigious scheme from The Royal Society supporting early-career scientists from outside the UK to carry out research in the United Kingdom. The fellowship is designed for non-UK researchers who want to establish or extend their research experience at a UK host organisation. It offers support for a two-year research stay and is intended for candidates working across the sciences, rather than a single discipline-specific project. Successful fellows receiv...

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 NOMIS–STRI Postdoctoral Fellowship in Animal Behavior is a three-year postdoctoral opportunity hosted by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. The fellowship supports research on animal behavior and its proximate and ultimate causes, with a focus on topics such as social behavior, sensory ecology, neuroethology, and cognitive ecology. This is a research-intensive position within STRI’s fellowship environment, designed for an advanced postdoctoral scholar working broadly in a...

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: The emotional basis of behaviour This PhD studentship explores a fundamental question in evolutionary biology and behavioural science: why might evolution favour emotion-based decision-making systems rather than purely rational, stimulus-driven responses? The project investigates the idea that emotions and mood states may function as physiological memory of past experience, helping organisms make ...