Research Initiation Grant

Funding opportunity for full-time Ph.D. scholars in Disaster Studies through the NIDM Doctoral Fellowship Programme (F.Y. 2026-2027) . The call is issued by the National Institute of Disaster Management under the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. The fellowship supports research on major hazard and resilience themes, including landslides, floods, cyclones, earthquakes, and fire hazards . Priority intervention areas include nature-based/ecosystem approaches , community-centric soluti...

Fully funded PhD opportunity under the Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2026) at Monash University Malaysia . The project is titled Green–Grey–Blue Infrastructure Resilience Assessment Framework for Urban Flood Mitigation in the Klang River Basin . The research focuses on developing an Urban Flood Resilience Analysis (UFLRA) Framework by integrating green infrastructure, grey infrastructure, and blue infrastructure to improve flood resilience. Methods mentioned include hydrodynam...

Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC), I.P. in Lisbon, Portugal is offering one full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (BIPD) within the scope of the project ECO_RORAIL – Industrial by-products for eco-efficient roads and railways . The position is part of a research effort focused on eco-efficient transport infrastructure, with strong emphasis on civil engineering, structures, roads, railways, and transport infrastructures. The successful fellow will join the Transport Infrastruct...

Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) is advertising a full-time PhD scholarship at the Dresden Leibniz Graduate School (DLGS) . The announced research topic is “Levers for sustainable urban mobility transformations” , making this a strong opportunity for applicants interested in urban planning , spatial planning , mobility transitions , sustainability transitions , and related work on urban development and transport change. This is a PhD scholarship call rather t...

One full scholarship is available in the School of Geography, University of Leeds for 2026/27 . This is a postgraduate research opportunity focused on satellite monitoring of desertification , with a particular emphasis on the degradation of grasslands and the development of new methods for environmental monitoring. The project will explore how to map new variables using some of the latest satellite sensors and drones , combined with innovative image classification algorithms . It will study gra...