The evolution of body size, shape and locomotor ecology in tetrapods
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025
PhD research projects
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ACCE DTP
CENTA
A multi-angle study of secondarily aquatic vertebrate evolution
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025, 23:59 GMT
CROCUS DLA
Life in mines: exploring and harnessing the hidden microbiology of mine tailings, a journey of discovery and restoration
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025
Impacts of light pollution and other drivers on UK moth communities and associated plant pollination
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025
Molecular ecology of meiofaunal communities in restored and natural seagrass meadows
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025
Eruption triggers and timescales at ‘hyperactive’ subduction zone volcanoes
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025
Biodiversity, biogeography and ecology of red calcified coralline algae of Britain
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025
Birds in a changing world - insights from avian collections
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025
GW4+
Discovery, species diversity, and utilisation of parasitoids using AI in a genomic framework
Deadline to apply: Monday 13 January 2025, 23:59 GMT
Diversity and ecology of glacier cyanobacteria in the Polar Regions
Deadline to apply: Monday 13 January 2025, 23:59 GMT
Carbon budgets for glacial landscapes: the role of microbes in storing and releasing carbon
Deadline to apply: Monday 13 January 2025, 23:59 GMT
Crunchy with Crystals: unravelling the eruptive pathways of the domes and flows of the Morne Plat Plays volcanic complex, Dominica
Deadline to apply: Monday 13 January 2025, 23:59 GMT
IGNITE DLA
Eco-evolutionary consequences of altered predator-prey interactions under tropicalisation
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025
Comparing cryptobenthic fishes: from cool climates to coral reefs
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025
Spatial scaling of benthic biodiversity in an abyssal deep-sea mining province: ecological and genomic approaches
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025
Disparities in species divergence: the genomics of large vs small genera
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025
Adaptation to extreme environments: Evolution of unusual body plans in Southern Ocean Echinoids
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025
Exploring the eruptive behaviour of a rare young stratovolcano
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 8 January 2025
TREES DLA
Elucidating the ecological, developmental, and environmental drivers of insect megadiversity
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Origin and early evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis and cyanobacteria
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Genomic diversity, adaptation and ecology of cyanobacteria in the Arctic
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Historical DNA phylogenomics: a novel approach to problems in flatworm systematics
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Evolution of basaltic magmatic systems: the centennial activity of Mt Etna volcano (Southern Italy)
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Quantifying the global human-wildlife interface
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Financial de-risking products to value biodiversity's role in reducing impacts of natural disasters
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
How do we assess change in parasitoid wasp populations?
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Exploring the Deep Earth through Non-Destructive Analysis of Diamond Inclusions
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Diversity and evolution of burrowing frog visual systems
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Next-generation biodiversity indicators
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Fruit bats in a changing world
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Mapping Gene Flow Across the Animal Kingdom: Insights into Species Boundaries and Evolutionary Processes
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Thermoelastic properties of subducted crustal materials
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Shark ecology and biodiversity during the mid-Cretaceous
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
Evolution of vision and adaptations to the deep-sea in gastropods
Deadline to apply: Monday 20 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
AHRC LAHP
Understanding ‘Place’ in Historical Botanical Collections: science, commerce, empire, and the early-modern herbarium
Deadline to apply: Friday 31 January 2025, 17:00 GMT
AI-INTERVENE
Retrodeformation and Phenomic Data Capture from Fossils to Reconstruct Response to Past Mass Extinction and Global Climate Change
Deadline to apply: Monday 27 January 2025
Vision-Language Foundation Models for Coral Reef Visual Understanding
Deadline to apply: Monday 27 January 2025
Quantifying Species Distributions and Changes in a Global Biodiversity Hotspot using Museum Specimens and AI
Deadline to apply: Monday 27 January 2025
AI4Plants: Unlocking Plant Biodiversity Insights with AI and Computer Vision
Deadline to apply: Monday 27 January 2025
STFC
Petrologic and geochemical constraints on volcanic eruptions on Amazonian Mars
Deadline to apply: Sunday 2 February 2025, 23:59 GMT
Salt hydrates at high pressure and low temperature: Implications for icy moon explorations
Deadline to apply: Sunday 2 February 2025, 23:59 GMT
OneZoo CDT
Rhythms of Infection: Understanding the Circadian Control of Schistosome Development in Snails
Deadline to apply: Friday 31 January 2025, 23:59 GMT
Using comparative genomics of schistosome species to better understand the molecular basis of zoonoses
Deadline to apply: Friday 31 January 2025, 23:59 GMT