PhD and Postdoc Positions in Environmental Sustainability in China

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year, plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] Sub-cool is a 4-year PhD studentship at The University of Manchester that explores how urban aquifers could be used as reliable, sustainable resources for geothermal cooling in a changing climate. The project brings together hydrogeology , climate change , and social science perspectives to study both the ph...

[4-year PhD studentship with an annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate (£21,805 per year) plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This 4-year PhD studentship at The University of Manchester explores how circular business models and strategic collaboration can improve the sustainability and resilience of electric vehicle battery value chains. The project focuses on the transition from linear to circular battery sys...

This PhD position sits within GOV4CARE , a five-year European research project coordinated by the Health Systems and Services Research group at Amsterdam UMC in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare . The project focuses on how European healthcare systems can improve their ecological sustainability and climate resilience, and how these goals can be embedded in policy, governance, organization, and everyday care practice. The doctoral research is internationally comparative and...

This postdoc sits within GOV4CARE , an international European consortium led by Amsterdam UMC that examines how health systems can become more ecologically sustainable and climate-resilient. The position is based in the Health Systems and Services Research group in the Department of Public and Occupational Health , where researchers study how health systems perform in terms of quality, accessibility, equity, efficiency, ecological sustainability, and resilience. The project places the postdoc at...

This postdoctoral project at Amsterdam UMC is part of the European GOV4CARE consortium and focuses on measuring and improving the ecological sustainability and climate resilience of European health systems. You will work within the Health Systems and Services Research group in the Department of Public and Occupational Health at Amsterdam UMC, in close collaboration with the Amsterdam UMC Centre for Sustainable Care and international partners across the consortium. A key scientific partner is Yal...

Swansea University is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity in Psychology through the Psychology pathway of the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences. The programme supports research addressing major social, behavioural and societal challenges, with an October 2027 start. Potential research can be developed across social, cognitive, developmental, environmental, health, clinical and forensic psychology. Listed themes include healthy lives, responsible consumption, sustainability, ...

The University of Nottingham’s Nottingham University Business School will launch a refreshed Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management MSc curriculum in 2027. The programme examines how entrepreneurs can make effective use of current digital technologies while preparing students for leadership in family businesses and for roles driving change within established organisations. It is designed for aspiring changemakers interested in entrepreneurship, innovation and organisational transformation. ...

The University of Manchester is offering a four-year PhD studentship investigating how autonomous systems could transform the international flower trade, with particular attention to the social and environmental consequences of changing cold-chain logistics. The research will begin with road haulage, examining the transition from conventional refrigerated trucks to emerging autonomous long-haul systems. Through interviews with wholesalers, truckers, grocery stores and high street florists, the p...

This PhD project at the Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) explores how batteries work and fail at the molecular level, with the goal of informing better materials for safer, longer-lasting, higher-performing energy storage. The research combines magnetic resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) with electrochemical methods to investigate battery materials and components in a non-destructive, chemically specific way. You will help develop and apply a suite of NM...