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  Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Creation of High Tech Unicorn Start-ups (REF: SF18/BAM/WHALLEY1)
Northumbria University Faculty of Business and Law
  Prof J Whalley, Dr J Cunningham
Applications accepted all year round
Entrepreneurial ecosystem research to date has identified a range of actors that contribute to the vibrancy, sustainability, and viability of such ecosystems.
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  Using environmental DNA to understand the role of connectivity in pond ecosystems
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology CEH (Wallingford Site)
  Dr D Read, Prof S Ormerod
Application Deadline: 17 December 2018
The majority of freshwater habitats are small in scale, comprising ponds and low-order streams, ditches and springs. Collectively these represent the largest resource of freshwater habitats across the UK and provide a heterogeneous network of resources for a wide diversity of freshwater and terrestrial organisms.
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  NERC Panorama Doctoral Training Partnership - Productivity crises in past and future oceans: what ancient crises tell us about future threats to marine ecosystems
University of Hull School of Environmental Sciences
  Dr D Bond
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
The world’s oceans and their ecosystems are under threat from anthropogenic activities that are interacting to produce complex changes like never before.
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  eDNA: A 21st Century tool to link people and ecosystem health in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Biosciences
  Prof P Kille, Dr I Durance
Application Deadline: 17 December 2018
Freshwater ecosystems are biodiversity hotspots and crucial to the survival of people and wildlife. However, population growth, over exploitation and changing climate are a real threat to these key ecosystems, particularly in arid environments.
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  Looking for plastic biodegraders in submarine hydrothermal ecosystems.
Cardiff University Cardiff School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
  Dr E Chi Fru, Dr H Sass
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
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  Global change effects on boreal forests: how will boreal ecosystems respond to climate warming?
University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences
  Prof M Williams, Dr L Street, Dr I Myers-Smith
Application Deadline: 10 January 2019
This project will test whether boreal latitudes are undergoing tipping point transitions that restructure ecosystems due to warming and feedbacks between nutrient cycling and vegetation.
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  School of Geographical and Earth Sciences - Applying AI to Determine How Lake Ecosystems Respond to Extreme Events
University of Glasgow College of Science and Engineering
  Prof J Toney, Dr C Miller
Application Deadline: 18 January 2019
The Biomarkers for Environmental and Climate Science (BECS) research group at the University of Glasgow is looking to recruit an excellent PhD student to apply advanced statistical and computing techniques to large environmental datasets with an aim to identify ecosystem responses to abrupt and extreme environmental change.
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  CREED and OECD partnership: funded PhD in AI and entrepreneurial ecosystems
University of Sheffield Management School
  Research Group: Centre for Regional Economic and Enterprise Development (CREED)
  Prof T Vorley
Application Deadline: 14 December 2018
As a member of the Russell Group and a world top-100 university, the University of Sheffield has a reputation for world-class teaching and research excellence across a variety of disciplines.
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  Understanding the ecology and biogeochemistry of midwater ecosystems
University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science
  Dr K Cook, Dr D Mayor, Dr B Ward
Application Deadline: 4 January 2019
Project Rationale. The mesopelagic zone of the ocean (~50-1000 m beneath the surface), often referred to as the ‘twilight zone’, remains one of the most poorly understood ecosystems on Earth.
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  Past, present and future of permafrost peatlands
University of Leeds School of Geography
  Dr P Morris, Dr G Swindles
Application Deadline: 7 January 2019
Background. The Arctic is experiencing more rapid warming than anywhere else on the planet (Cohen et al., 2014), and this trend is projected to accelerate in coming decades, even under modest emissions scenarios (Collins et al., 2013).
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