PhD Opportunities in Geography in United Kingdom

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per year enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This 4-year PhD project at The University of Manchester focuses on the use of geospatial foundation models to improve the monitoring of smallholder agricultural systems from satellite data. The work sits at the intersection of Earth Observation , remote sensing , and agricultural mapping, with an emphasis on u...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate of £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per year enhancement, with 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 soil health is sensed, interpreted, and communicated across biological, technological, and human systems. The project focuses on soil condition in urban environments, looking at how belowground life and emerging sensing approaches can be linked...

[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...

[Competition-funded UoM-Peking dual award scheme; applicants are instructed to enter 'Dual award funding' in the application. Not all advertised projects will offer a place on the programme.] This PhD studentship sits within a dual-award collaboration between The University of Manchester and Peking University and focuses on the chemistry of porous metal-organic framework (MOF) materials for the capture and separation of reactive air pollutants. The project addresses a major environmental challen...

[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...

[Competition-funded dual award scheme; applicants are instructed to enter “Dual award funding” in the application form. The advert notes that not all advertised projects will necessarily offer a place on the programme.] This PhD project explores mineral–fluid–rock interactions in subsurface geological formations and how these coupled processes shape the performance and integrity of technologies central to the energy transition. The research is set against applications such as geothermal energy e...

[4-year PhD studentship with 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.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester explores how emerging autonomous systems could reshape the international flower trade, with a particular focus on road haulage and cold-chain delivery. The project looks at the move from traditional refrigerated trucks to futur...

Engineering Hydrogen Net Zero CDT PhD project This fully funded doctoral project explores how multiscale electrochemistry can improve ammonia technologies at the intersection of food security and the energy transition. The research addresses challenges in sustainable fertiliser production while also investigating the role of ammonia in future clean energy systems. As part of the Engineering Hydrogen Net Zero Centre for Doctoral Training, the successful researcher will join a cohort-based program...

The University of Exeter’s Centre for Ecology and Conservation is recruiting a PhD student to join a supervisory team studying the impact of environmental change on the ecology of Southern Ocean predators . The project will investigate how changing environmental conditions affect predator ecology in the Southern Ocean, contributing to broader understanding of marine ecosystems, conservation ecology and responses to global environmental change. The student will join the Centre for Ecology and Con...