PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Archaeology in United Kingdom

[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 how magma-mush processes influence volcanic unrest . The project addresses a major challenge in eruption forecasting and hazard assessment: understanding how subsurface magma movement, accumulation, and heterogeneity shape surface deformation and seismic signals before eruptions. The student will develop and apply new numerical models of m...

[Home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend for eligible students.] This PhD studentship investigates whether seagrass meadows can act as a natural defence against waterborne bacterial pathogens in coastal environments. The project asks whether Zostera marina can reduce pathogen abundance or persistence, whether its associated microbiome helps produce that effect, and how these relationships change under environmental change and episodic pollution. The research combines field observations...

[For eligible students, the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship investigates how bee behaviour shapes pollination services in structurally diverse floral habitats. The project focuses on the way bees move through complex rural landscapes in Devon, where vertical barriers such as hedgerows can alter travel costs and change how pollinators access floral resources. The research will combine behavioural observations, environmental data, and...

[Funded through the CENTA3 DLA by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Funding covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant.] This PhD studentship at the University of Birmingham, offered through CENTA, investigates how large igneous provinces may have driven major carbon releases during some of Earth’s most dramatic climate and biotic crises. The project is framed around rapid past events such as the end-Permian and end-Triassic mas...

[Funded through the CENTA3 DLA by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Funding covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant.] This PhD studentship investigates the evolutionary affinities of some of the earliest actinopterygian “macrodont” fishes, a group of large-bodied, large-toothed ray-finned fishes that expanded during the Carboniferous after the End-Devonian Mass Extinction. The project addresses a long-standing problem in vert...

[Funded through the CENTA3 DLA and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant.] This PhD studentship investigates how the jaws of sharks have evolved and how different jaw forms affect feeding function across both living and fossil elasmobranchs. The project is framed around the remarkable diversity of shark ecologies, from suction feeding and filter feeding to shell-crunching, and asks how the ...

The University of Glasgow is seeking a Research Associate in Intelligent Geophysics for Offshore Wind to join the James Watt School of Engineering and contribute to a major UKRI-funded Fellowship led by Dr Róisín Buckley. The project sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, scientific machine learning, marine geophysics and subsurface engineering . It addresses fundamental challenges in interpreting and integrating marine geophysical, geological and geotechnical data to improve subsu...

The University of Glasgow is seeking a Research Fellow in Applied AI for the Energy Transition within the James Watt School of Engineering. The role is part of a major UKRI-funded Fellowship led by Dr Róisín Buckley and sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, scientific machine learning and subsurface engineering. The research will develop physics-informed machine-learning approaches to improve understanding of the subsurface, supporting the deployment of offshore wind and other net...

Henri Frankfort Fellowship at the Warburg Institute, part of the University of London, supports a two-month research visit in London for postdoctoral scholars working on the Ancient Near East. The fellowship is designed for research in the history of ideas, cultural history, and art history, and is connected to the Warburg Institute’s broader strengths in the history of ideas, visual history, and cultural history. The award honours Henri Frankfort, who directed the Institute from 1949 to 1954, a...