PhD Studentship: Understanding and Managing Solutions for Emerging UK Fisheries Challenges: Expansion of Bluefin Tuna into the North Sea University of Exeter in United Kingdom

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...

Erasmus Mundus IMBRSea Master's Programme 2027–2029 is an international master's opportunity in marine biological resources , with a strong focus on marine biology and marine conservation . The programme is offered by the IMBRSea Consortium and includes mobility across Europe, with study and training opportunities in countries such as Belgium, France, Portugal, and Italy. This is a fully funded Erasmus Mundus scholarship opportunity, and the post highlights a monthly stipend of €1,400 . It is ai...

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship will investigate whether repeat photography, citizen science and machine learning can be combined to detect ecological change in intertidal habitats. The project addresses the challenge of monitoring highly dynamic coastal environments where conventional surveys are often limited by cost, spatial coverage and sampling frequency. The Doctoral Researcher will work on designing re...

PhD scholarship at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Aqua) on Arctic fjord food webs under glacial retreat . The project is jointly hosted with the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (GINR) and the Greenland Climate Research Centre (GCRC), and it examines how glacier retreat changes the structure, functioning, and stability of coastal Arctic ecosystems. The research is centered on two fjord systems near Nuuk, Greenland, with contrasting levels of glacial influence. The successful ca...

[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...