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  Virtual Reality for Cyber Defence and Situational Awareness
University of South Wales Research & Innovation Services
  Prof A Blyth
Application Deadline: 27 January 2019
*This is a KESS 2 East scholarship opportunity. Please note the eligibility information in the advert text or contact the team for further information.*.
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  Understanding the ecology and evolution of defence-pollination conflicts in plants
University of Sheffield Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
  Dr S Campbell, Prof M T Siva-jothy
Application Deadline: 9 January 2019
Understanding how species adapt to different environments requires consideration of how they respond to multiple agents of natural selection.
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  ’Seeing inside flood embankments’ – novel geophysical imaging approaches for assessing the health of safety–critical flood defence infrastructure
British Geological Survey Geophysical Tomography Team
  Prof J Chambers, Prof M Kendall, Dr P Wilkinson
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
Project description. There are many thousands of kilometres of earth embankments within the UK flood defence and canal networks, much of which is aging and displaying increasing levels of failure in response to extreme weather events.
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  Characterising Clostridium difficile defence strategies against bacteriophages
University of Leicester Department of Infection Immunity & Inflammation
  Prof M Clokie, Dr A Millard
Application Deadline: 6 January 2019
Healthcare associated infections are a major problem for patients and a global health challenge. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is particularly problematic, for example the UK has ~20,000 infectious diarrhoeal cases every year, and progressive complications can lead to death in ~3% of infected patients.
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  NERC Panorama Doctoral Training Partnership - Adaptation strategies to pluvial urban flood risk under UKCP18 climate change scenarios
University of Leeds School of Chemical and Process Engineering
  Dr M Trigg
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
The frequency and impact of heavy rainfall associated with summer convective storms and winter frontal storms is projected to increase with future climate change.
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  RISK CDT - Vulnerability of coastal infrastructures under climate change
University of Liverpool Institute for Risk and Uncertainty
  Dr E Patelli, Dr N Leonardi
Applications accepted all year round
Applications will close as soon as a suitable candidate has been found. The successful candidate is expected to start by February 2019.
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  Understanding the genetic control of composition and spatial distribution of the defence compounds glucosinolates in rapeseed plants.
University of York Department of Biology
  Prof Ian Bancroft, Dr K Redeker
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
Glucosinolates are a group of compounds that have a role in defending plants. against pests and diseases. However, they reduce the nutritional value of food.
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  Uncovering new signalling nodes in the interaction between wheat and the fungal pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola
Durham University Department of Biosciences
  Dr A Sadanandom
Application Deadline: 11 January 2019
Mycosphaerella graminicola is an economically important fungal pathogen of wheat leaves and the causal agent of Septoria tritici blotch disease (STB).
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  Flood mitigation schemes in rural communities in the south west of England
Kingston University Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing
  Dr K Clarke, Dr A P Dykes, Dr M Ibsen
Applications accepted all year round
There have been several severe flood events in southwest England in recent years, including Boscastle in 2004, Dawlish in 2014 and Coverack in 2014 and July 2017.
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  Image-Based Methods for the Dynamics of Ceramic Interfaces in Ballistic Armour Applications
University of Southampton Engineering & The Environment
  Research Group: Materials and Surface Engineering
  Prof F Pierron
Application Deadline: 1 February 2019
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) Defence and Security PhD scheme has a current focus on ‘Novel Materials for Defence’. As part of this program, interfaces between armour ceramics and polymers/metals have been identified as key to improving the performance of ballistic armour for military personnel and vehicles.
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