PhD 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...

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...

This PhD position in VA-teknik at Luleå University of Technology is part of a research environment focused on urban water systems, especially stormwater and wastewater. The project aims to improve the maintenance of urban stormwater facilities such as gullies and retention ponds by developing a data-driven understanding of sediment accumulation and facility performance. The doctoral researcher will work with long-term monitoring data collected using high-resolution sensors, capturing sediment dy...

This fully funded PhD studentship is hosted by The Open University in the Department of Strategy and Marketing and sits within the Horizon Europe project SOLILA , a large international collaboration with 39 partners supporting the EU Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe”. The project is focused on a timely real-world challenge: how effective soil-health solutions move from development into sustained use. The doctoral project, Co-creation and the Adoption of Innovation in Mission-Oriented Ecosystems ,...