eco PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The immune responses that wild animals make contribute to their fitness, but what those immune responses are – and how they differ from those of laboratory animals – is hardly known.

Transformative Marketing Strategies

Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Business School

Dr M Ehret, Dr L Q Siebers

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Marketing and Business activities are in the process of fundamental transformation. Public debate and service research raise awareness that business activities destroy as well as create value.

Chemical cocktails: understanding the combined effects of nanoparticles and pharmaceutical on microbial species and populations.

University of Birmingham
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dr I Lynch

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Given that pharmaceuticals and nanomaterials (NMs) used in consumer products such as sunscreens and cosmetics have the same discharge pathways (i.e.

New generation of brake pads – design and tribological testing (Advert Reference: SF18/MCE/ZABIEGAJ)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Dr D Zabiegaj

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Road traffics and industrial processes that are well-known as exhaust emissions producers; however, released Particulate Matter (PM) originates also from a number of non-exhaust processes, brake and tyres, involving corrosion and mechanical abrasion.

Integrating metabolomics, imaging and bioinformatics to develop physiology-based kinetic models for chemical safety science

University of Birmingham
School of Biosciences

Prof M Viant, Dr B Campos, Dr C Rivetti, Dr I Sorrell

Application Deadline: 22 September 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

**If you are interested in this studentship, it is vital to contact Professor Mark Viant prior to application with a copy of your CV.

ISIS Beamline Facility Development Studentship: Opto-Electronic Control of Magnetism

University of Leeds
School of Physics and Astronomy

Dr O Cespedes, Prof S Langridge

Application Deadline: 31 January 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

This is a joint project to be carried out in collaboration between the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, a world-leading centre for research at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) near Oxford, and the University of Leeds.

Identification of tree species based on UAV captured images

University of Reading
Department of Computer Science

Dr H Wei, Prof J Ferryman, Dr G DiFatta

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Computer Computer vision technology has been found to be an important application in remotely sensed data understanding. This research exploits high‐resolution images captured by UAV payload cameras to identify tree species.

PhD project in Inorganic/Organometallic Chemistry: Cooperative Bond Activation and Catalysis by Polynuclear Main-Group Element Compounds

University of Regensburg
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry

Dr R Kretschmer

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Catalysis is one of the most powerful strategies to convert both conventional and alternative resources to valuable chemicals in environmentally friendly and economical processes.

Linking biodiversity with function to provide indicators of tipping points in freshwater environmental risk assessment

University of York
Department of Environment and Geography

Prof P White, Prof J Hill, Prof L Maltby, Dr G Hodges

Application Deadline: 30 September 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Environmental risk assessment is used to determine the likelihood of adverse ecological effects occurring resulting from a certain chemical (or less frequently, a combination of chemicals) at a specific concentration entering the environment.