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[Home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend of at least £21,805 for 3.5 years full-time; international tuition fee support is partial only (approximately £27,000 covered) and additional costs remain the student's responsibility.] University of Exeter PhD studentship in the Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour, based in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Streatham Campus, Exeter. This industry-funded project examines the ecological effects of released gamebirds on lowland ecosys...

Project 18 at the University of Sheffield is a fully funded PhD in ecology , ecotoxicology , environmental biology , and mathematical modelling . The project, titled The ecology of toxicological non-target effects , is supervised by Prof Andrew Beckerman with Prof David Spurgeon and Dr N Galic as named project supervisors. The research asks how species interactions mediate the impacts of chemical stress on biodiversity, especially in terrestrial ecosystems. It uses advanced computational modelli...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in soil evolutionary ecology at IPNA-CSIC (Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology, Spanish National Research Council) in Spain. The position is linked to project PID2025-171985NB-I00 and the METASOILs project, titled Community metaphylogeography of European soil fauna: integrating Quaternary legacies, ecological traits and anthropogenic change to uncover hidden soil biodiversity . The project explores how Quaternary history , ecological specialisation , habita...

Fully funded PhD studentship on social acceptability of biodiversity-friendly grassland management at Anglia Ruskin University , in collaboration with Cambridge City Council . The project asks how people perceive current and future wildlife-friendly grassland management options and how public attitudes may shape biodiversity-focused land management. It is a good fit for candidates interested in environmental science , biology , agriculture , and the social dimensions of conservation and land-use...

Fully funded PhD opportunity on Social Reinforcement Learning to Support the Agroecological Transition within the MSCA COFUND BEST programme. The project is jointly supervised by INRAE Toulouse (France) and IIIA-CSIC (Barcelona, Spain) , offering an international research environment at the intersection of reinforcement learning , multi-agent systems , computer science , and agroecological transition . Eligibility: applicants must hold a master’s degree or equivalent by the deadline and must not...