PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Climate Science in United Kingdom

This 36-month PhD project at the University of St Andrews investigates how atmospheric circulation responds to global warming and how those responses affect regional climate and weather extremes. The research will use a hierarchy of numerical climate simulations to study circulation across multiple scales, from global jet streams to regional thunderstorm systems. By analyzing multi-member ensembles and prescribed sea-surface-temperature experiments, the project will distinguish rapid adjustments...

This four-year 1+3 MRes/PhD studentship will investigate rainfall-induced slope failure risk across Great Britain's railway infrastructure, in collaboration with Network Rail and the University of Cambridge's Department of Engineering. The research will examine why clusters of embankment and cutting failures occur around the rail network. Using Network Rail's extensive databases on asset condition and performance, the project will analyze the roles of local geology, hydrogeological conditions, n...

The University of Cambridge is offering a four-year 1+3 MRes/PhD studentship through the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT), in collaboration with Network Rail. The project examines how railway infrastructure systems can be managed as climate change and changing patterns of extreme weather alter the risks faced by transport assets. The research will investigate how environmental and operational thresholds for key rail...

A fully funded PhD opportunity is available at the University of Exeter in the UK, focused on plant pathology and climate change. The thesis, “Tackling the threat of wheat disease in a changing climate, using epidemiological modelling and soil microbiome research on take-all,” will investigate wheat disease dynamics under changing environmental conditions. The project combines epidemiological modelling with soil microbiome research to understand take-all disease and its implications for wheat pr...

The University of Bristol is recruiting a Research Fellow in Climate Change and Health for a fixed three-year, full-time position in the School of Geographical Sciences. The role works across the University and with the Cabot Institute for the Environment, the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health, and the Jean Golding Institute for Data Science. Applicants are welcome from across climate change and health, with particular interest in research applying data science and artificial intelligence...

The University of Bristol is recruiting two postdoctoral Research Associates/Senior Research Associates to join Dr Eunice Lo’s UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship team and the Climate and Health Research Group. The Futureproof project develops weather-health prediction science to strengthen the climate resilience of the NHS. The successful researchers will analyse weather forecasts, climate datasets, human health and healthcare data; run environmental-epidemiology models; and produce weather-health f...

Erica Thompson, Associate Professor at University College London's Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP), is inviting applications for PhD projects for 2027 entry. The first opportunity is a UNRISK CDT project titled Humanitarian risk pools responding to a changing climate . The project explores humanitarian risk, climate change, risk pools, and responses to changing environmental conditions. The second opportunity is a UCL EPSRC doctoral studentship titled Mo...

The University of Edinburgh is offering a PhD opportunity supervised by Professor Lindsay Beevers and Encarni Medina Lopez on future hydrological extremes in a changing climate . The project will quantify how floods and droughts may change under future climate change using the Reference Observatory of Basins for International hydrological climate change detection (ROBIN), a global network of near-natural catchments, together with global multi-model climate projections such as ISIMIP. It will inv...

University of Exeter is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow position in climate science, Earth system modelling, peatlands, permafrost, and greenhouse gas dynamics . This is a full-time, fixed-term, ERC Synergy-funded post within the CLIMPEAT project, a collaboration involving the University of Exeter, University of Stockholm, University of Innsbruck, and LSCE. The role runs from 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2029 . The successful applicant will contribute to the development o...