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PhD Studentship: Digital Twinning for Smart Resin Infusion and Curing in Wind Turbine Blades via Embedded Fibre Optic Sensors and Physics-Informed Machine Learning
University of Hull
Location: Kingston upon Hull
Salary: £20,780 per annum
Date Placed: 18 Nov
Closes 05 Jan
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PhD Studentship How Resilient are Complex Cliffs to Large Landslides in a Changed and Changing Climate
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funding covers: annual stipend, tuition fees (at home-fee level), Research Training Support Grant.
Date Placed: 18 Nov
Closes 07 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Finding the Most Explosive Volcanoes on Earth
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Location: Birmingham
Salary: Funding covers: annual stipend, tuition fees (at home-fee level), Research Training Support Grant.
Date Placed: 18 Nov
Closes 07 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Exploring the influence of magma-mush processes on volcanic unrest, NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend
Date Placed: 17 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Testing Antarctic Sea Level Pathways, NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.
Date Placed: 17 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Blue carbon: Can seabed sediments really help save us from climate change?, NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend
Date Placed: 17 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD Studentship: PhD Opportunity Title Taking the pulse: Tracking sediment and water pollution in the headwaters of the Ganges with novel environmental sensors, NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend
Date Placed: 17 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Storylines of Risk Assessment for Wind and Flood Impacts in a Post-Net Zero Climate in the UK, NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.
Date Placed: 17 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Monitoring Crop Dynamics Using InSAR Loop Closure Time Series. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.
Date Placed: 17 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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10 fully funded 4-year PhD Studentships at the EPSRC and BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Engineering Solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance
London Centre for Nanotechnology
UCL
Location: London
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 17 Nov
Closes 12 Jan
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DPhil Studentship in Chemistry: Broadband Light Scattering Analysis for Single Aerosol Particles
Department of Chemistry
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £20,780 p.a.
Date Placed: 17 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry - Understanding Ecological Responses from Hydro-Geomorphic Changes using large wood in River Restoration. NERC GW4+ DTP
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Expires 08 Jan
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PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry - Quantifying the impact of changing boreal and arctic fire regimes on the cryosphere using satellite observations. NERC GW4+ DTP
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry - Ecosystem Engineers: Developing Mechanistic Understanding into the Hydrological Impacts of Beaver Wetlands. NERC GW4+ DTP
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD in Development of an Optical Sensor for Ultra-Sensitive PFAS Detection and Mechanistic Studies of Interactions with Biological Systems
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £20,780 p.a.
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Dec
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PhD in Microenvironment Recognition and Exposure Quantification During Personal Sensing of Environmental Pollutants: A Machine Learning Algorithm and Toolkit Development
Department of Public Health and Sports Sciences
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £20,780 p.a.
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Dec
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PhD Studentship: The ecology and functional role of demersal deep-water elasmobranchs. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Ecology and Conservation
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Submesoscale ocean flows and processes in the Southern Ocean. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD in Weather-Driven Resilience: AI and Control Frameworks for National–Local Power Systems
Department of Engineering
University of Exeter
Location: Exeter
Salary: £20,780 p.a.
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Soil carbon dynamics following Amazon forest wildfires. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Digital Twinning for Post-Mining Environmental Transitions. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Earth and Environmental Science
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Assessing microplastics as drivers of antimicrobial resistance selection and spread in wastewater systems. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Public Health and Sports Sciences
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: Not Specified
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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PhD Studentship: Predicting population exposure to geomorphic hazards in dynamic rivers. NERC GW4+ DTP PhD studentship for September 2026 Entry
Department of Geography
University of Exeter
Location: Devon, Exeter
Salary: For eligible students the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 08 Jan
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Research Studentship in Tidal Stream Energy
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford
Location: Oxford
Salary: £10,470 to £20,780 - please see advert
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 02 Dec
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PhD Studentship: Investigating Perineuronal Net Modulation as a Mechanism Underlying Diet Induced Cognitive Impairment
Institute of Health and Social Care
University of Bradford
Location: Bradford
Salary: Tax-free stipend of £20,780 per year for living cost plus full tuition fees covered.
Date Placed: 14 Nov
Closes 07 Jan
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