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climate change PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 525 climate change PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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PhD Global Excellence and Mobility Scholarship (GEMS 2027) Solar Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Renewable Fuels

The increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is a major driver of climate change, creating an urgent need for technologies that can simultaneously mitigate emissions and generate sustainable energy. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr L Tan
 30 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Novel photonic sensing for marine environment monitoring

Light is a key driver for several fundamentally important processes in the ocean including ocean warming, photosynthesis and animal behavior. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D McKee, Dr J Macarthur
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Mood and Reward and Mental Health

We investigate a broad range of topics related to youth mental health, with a particular focus on depression, anhedonia, and reward processing. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof C McCabe
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Identifying the importance of age, sex, ethnicity and obesity in establishing cardiovascular-respiratory reflex responses to heat exposure

One of the major threats to human health is climate change and its association with increased exposure to extreme heat. An important effect is an increase in the frequency, duration and intensity of heatwave exposure. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A H Holmes, Dr J Welch, Dr A Coney
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Domestication and environmental adaptation in livestock

  Research Group: Organisms and Environment
Project Description. Livestock species have an incredible history, having been recently domesticated from wildlife species such as the aurochs, mouflon, wild buffalo etc, and since then having been changed by early and modern farmers to fulfil an economic role supporting human societies. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Orozco Ter Wengel, Dr F Hailer, Dr BWZ Zhang
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Moving beyond oil from below through creative practice and urban artivism for the transition to post-fossil fuels cities

As many countries grapple with the transition towards a regime of renewable energies, fossil fuels continue to determine the daily existence of the majority of the world’s population. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Plaza
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Computer Vision for Pollination Insects Monitoring

Pollinating insects are crucial for agriculture, but current monitoring methods rely on manual techniques that are expensive, labour-intensive, and impractical for large-scale use. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Guedes
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD Scholarship in Hydrogen Storage for Clean Energy

  Research Group: www.merlin-H2.com
Scholarships are available for PhD candidates to contribute to the development of advanced hydrogen storage systems in a multidisciplinary research team. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof FAZ Aguey-Zinsou
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Fully-funded EPSRC CDT in Machining, Assembly and Digital Engineering for Manufacturing (MADE4Manufacturing)

Shaping the future of Digital Manufacturing. The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Machining, Assembly and Digital Engineering for Manufacturing is a collaboration between the University of Sheffield, the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and many Industrial Partners. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)  EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training
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Understanding extinction risk in the Anthropocene

We live in a humanized world in which even the most remote areas have been affected by the actions of our species. Human impacts have caused a widespread loss of biodiversity, to the point that we have likely entered the sixth mass extinction event on Earth, the first primarily caused by humans. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Gonzalez-Suarez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Developing synthetic microbial communities for the control of pea downy mildew

Demand for food production is increasing due to growing global population, reduced land availability for agriculture, concern over the effects of the environment on agriculture, and decreasing yield reliability because of climate change. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Tor, Prof YH Hong, Dr T Wood
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Explainable, Ethical, Green Artificial Intelligence

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Starkey, Dr M N Campbell-Bannerman
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Application of CCUS in Critical Mineral Extraction from Subsurface Reservoirs

These projects are open to students worldwide, but have no funding attached. Therefore, the successful applicant will be expected to fund tuition fees at the relevant level (home or international) and any applicable additional research costs. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Rafati, Dr A Sharifi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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MSc by Research: Reporting on destruction – developing plant-based assays for PROTAC degrader activity

Protein Targeting Chimera (PROTAC) degraders are small molecules able to recruit a ubiquitin ligase to a protein of interest and promote degradation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Hemsley, Prof A Ciulli, Dr H Drost
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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CRISPR-Cas-based genetic biocontrol of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes for disease prevention

Lead supervisor. Dr Joshua Ang. Co-supervisors. Dr Clive McKimmie and Dr Daniella Lefteri. The student will be registered with the Department of Biology. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Ang, Dr CS McKimmie, Dr D Lefteri
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only