PhD Studentship: Polar Turbulence: Improving Boundary-layer Performance in Weather and Climate Simulations University of Exeter in United Kingdom

China Scholarship Council – University of Leeds Scholarships 2027 are available for up to 13 international fee-paying applicants who are nationals of the People’s Republic of China. This is a fully funded PhD research scholarship at the University of Leeds, open across all Faculties and subject areas. The award supports full-time postgraduate research study leading to the degree of PhD for 3 years. Funding includes full international tuition fees from the University of Leeds, while the China Sch...

[Full coverage of tuition fees, a generous travel budget, and an annual tax-free stipend of £23,805.] This PhD studentship is part of the Brahmal Institute’s October 2027 Doctoral Programme in Sustainable Aviation (DPSA) at Imperial College London. The programme brings together an interdisciplinary cohort working on aviation sustainability from a systems perspective, with shared learning, specialist training, networking, and outreach designed to support collaboration across airports, airlines, a...

[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 ...

[Full coverage of tuition fees, a generous travel budget, and an annual tax-free stipend of £23,805.] This PhD studentship sits within Imperial College London’s Brahmal Institute and its October 2027 Doctoral Programme in Sustainable Aviation (DPSA). The programme is framed around a system-wide sustainability theme, bringing together students working across aviation’s interconnected stakeholders, including airports, airlines, air traffic management, aircraft and passengers. The project focuses o...

[Fees and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD studentship at the University of Exeter on physics-informed AI and experimental modelling of ocean mixing , focusing on how fracture zones connect deep-ocean mixing, tracer transport, abyssal upwelling, and large-scale ocean ventilation. The project addresses a major climate-science challenge: how small-scale turbulent mixing in the deep ocean shapes basin-scale overturning circulation and the transport of heat, carbon, and nutrients. It ...