PhD Opportunities in Remote Sensing in United Kingdom

The University of Cambridge invites applications for a three-year funded PhD studentship in the landscape archaeology of East African montane systems, starting in October 2027. The student will join the AFRI-CAN project, funded by an ERC Synergy Grant, and will be based in the Department of Archaeology and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. The research will contribute to Work Package 1, investigating human-environment interactions over the past 6,000 years. The project will develop...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Greenwich focused on heatwave adaptation in residential properties. The project, entitled “Adapting to heatwave. A workflow blending outdoor and indoor environments” , will develop an adaptation workflow to help residential properties cope with heatwave events through integrated outdoor and indoor analysis. Research methods will include remote sensing , building simulation , and thermal comfort . The project will be supervised by Carlos Jimenez-Bescos,...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] University of Exeter is offering a PhD studentship on Digital twinning for post-mining environmental transitions . This project addresses the challenge of what happens to mines, quarries, and other extractive landscapes when ore bodies become exhausted or uneconomic, with a focus on building more sustainable and resilient post-mining futures. The research explores how former mine sites can be reused for a range of purposes, including resourc...

[Full fees and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] This PhD studentship at the University of Exeter focuses on understanding how tropical forest microclimates are changing under fire, degradation, land-use change, and climate change in Amazonia. The project sits at the intersection of environmental sensing , computational modelling , data analytics , and remote sensing , with a strong emphasis on predicting fine-scale climate conditions that influence tree mortality, drought stress, and ...

Coming soon: a PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in terahertz photonics , with a project focused on developing integrated terahertz-frequency quantum-cascade lasers for satellite communications and remote sensing . The work will be based in the university’s THz Photonics lab and the Bragg Centre for Materials Research nanotechnology cleanroom , suggesting a strong experimental and device-fabrication component across physics , electrical engineering , and materials science . The opportun...

PhD opportunity in Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the University of Edinburgh , within the School of GeoSciences and the Global Change Research Institute . This research degree focuses on major global challenges including climate change , environmental hazards , and sustainability , with projects spanning interactions across the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, land, and oceans. Research methods may include fieldwork , remote sensing , GIS , climate modelling , satellite data analys...

Funded PhD opportunity in Cryosphere research at the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh , starting in 2027 . The project is being advertised by Beatriz Recinos , an NERC Independent Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and is linked to the NERC E5 Doctoral Training Partnership . This opening is well suited to applicants interested in Earth Science , Environmental Science , Geography , and related climate/cryosphere topics. The post does not list detailed eligibility criter...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Plymouth in the Centre for Research in Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction . The project is titled “Revealing the Regolith: Investigating how subsurface conditions influence earthquake-triggered landslides” and focuses on geohazards , landslides , earthquake-triggered slope failure , regolith , GIS/remote sensing , computer modelling (using Landlab ), and cosmogenic nuclide analysis . The PhD includes fieldwork in the Italian Apennines and is a CASE pro...

PhD Studentship at the University of Sheffield on the role of icebergs in heat, freshwater, and nutrient exchanges in Greenland’s fjords. This UKRI-funded project is part of the Fjords Exchange Heat, Freshwater and Nutrients between the Greenland Ice Sheet and the North Atlantic Ocean (FEISO) programme. The research sits at the intersection of Earth Science , Environmental Science , Geography , Physics , and Biology , with strong links to glaciology, ocean circulation modelling, remote sensing, ...