PhD Opportunities in Environmental Sustainability in Austria

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS is seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join a research team working on Trustworthy and Safety-Constrained AI for Geological Carbon Storage . The project brings together artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, uncertainty, and sustainability to address research challenges in geological carbon storage and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). The candidate will contribute to developing AI approaches that are trustworthy, safety-aware, and suitable ...

[Fully funded three-year PhD studentship with annual stipend in line with UKRI levels (£21,805 in 2026/27, uprated annually) plus tuition fees (UK/Overseas).] The University of Southampton Law School is offering a fully funded PhD studentship within the Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law . The project sits inside one of the School’s research centres and is designed to strengthen the Centre’s work on discrimination against women and girls, the causes of gendered inequality, and possi...

[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...

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 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...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting a doctoral researcher for the STN-funded Planetary Mind project. The project examines environmental agency — the ability to make sustainable everyday choices — and its relationship to mental health across different age groups. The doctoral researcher will work in a multidisciplinary consortium and develop a dissertation linked to the project’s research themes. The role combines original research with publication, collabora...