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Food Security Now! Mining Data on Insect Ecology to Create More Sustainable Pest Control Management (Distance Learning Project)
Aberdeen University School of Biological Sciences
Human populations are growing at a faster rate than ever. The UN has announced that food production in its current form will not manage to feed the human population if it continues to grow. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Morimoto
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

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Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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.

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Urban horticulture: co-benefits to physical, mental and environmental health.
University of Sheffield Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
More than 80% of the UK population are urban and detached from primary food production. The UK commercial horticultural sector grows <20% of fruit… Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Edmondson, Dr S Caton
 7 March 2021 PhD Research Project

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Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

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Harnessing deep learning and data science to create a research data platform of intensively monitored cattle to underpin global health grand challenges
University of Bristol Bristol Veterinary School
A growing population and climate change are stressing the availability of food worldwide. At the same time, high animal welfare and health practice is more important than ever. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Dowsey
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Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Sustainable solutions to the intractable problems of food insecurity
University of Liverpool University of Liverpool Management School
 The University of Liverpool is offering a fully-funded ESRC CASE PhD studentship for a suitably qualified candidate in the field of food insecurity. Read more
 Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)

Some or all of the PhD opportunities in this programme have funding attached. Applications for this programme are welcome from suitably qualified candidates worldwide. Funding may only be available to a limited set of nationalities and you should read the full programme details for further information.

 EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship

EPSRC Industrial CASE Studentship

STFC Industrial CASE Studentships are Collaborative Awards in Science and Engineering funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Universities and non-academic partners create unique PhD opportunities, including industrial training and work placements.

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Production of dsRNA biopesticides as alternatives to chemical pesticides
University of Sheffield Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
We invite applications for a 3.5-year funded EPSRC PhD studentship to work under the supervision of Prof Mark Dickman at the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with Dr Peter Kilby at Syngenta. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof MJ Dickman
 14 March 2021 PhD Research Project

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Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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.

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Engineering more water-use efficient crops: functional genomics of CO2 fixation during Crassulacean acid metabolism
University of Liverpool Institute of Integrative Biology
The world is getting hotter and drier due to climate change, and the human population is growing rapidly to the extent that it has been predicted that we will need to increase crop yields by 50 - 70 % by 2050 in order to feed the predicted 9 - 10 billion people. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Hartwell
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Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Innovating social and economic strategies for landscape scale conservation
University of Leeds School of Earth & Environment
Working with Europe’s largest environmental NGO—the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds—the fully funded project “Innovating social and economic strategies for landscape scale conservation” will investigate which conservation strategies can best balance societal and environmental goals, and how to achieve these strategies. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr DR Williams, Dr G Holmes, Dr JH Hughes, Prof D Edwards
 12 March 2021 PhD Research Project

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Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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.

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Compass CDT/ FAI Farms: Vision-based system for automated poultry welfare assessment through deep learning and Bayesian modelling.
University of Bristol Department of Mathematics
Compass. – the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Computational Statistics and Data Science – at the University of Bristol in collaboration with. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof A Dowsey
 9 April 2021 PhD Research Project

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Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

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Live Plants Imaging: investigating signalling and response mechanisms
University of Sheffield Department of Chemistry
To achieve food security, we can improve the efficiency of food production while reducing the use and cost of pesticides. To tackle both challenges, efficiency and cost, we propose to select crop varieties that are more resilient against pests and diseases. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Chauvet
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Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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PhD in cellular and structural biology - Elucidating infection at the plant-microbe interphase to define targets for crop breeding
University of Sheffield Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
Achieving food security is one of the most important global challenges. Crop production and yield has been increasingly threatened by plant pathogens in a rapidly changing environment. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Voigt
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Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The land sparing potential of vertical farming to support Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) deployment
University of Surrey Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the cutting edge of two essential technologies for a low carbon future, vertical farming (VF) and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr ZM Harris
 1 March 2021 PhD Research Project

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Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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.

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Urban agroecology: Risks and Benefits
Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment
Urban agriculture has been widely recognised as one of the most efficient nature-based solutions that can be implemented in an urban or peri-urban area carrying multiple benefits. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Doherty, Dr S Cox
 30 April 2021 PhD Research Project

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Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

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Embedding resilience in impact assessment (BONDA1_U21SF)
University of East Anglia School of Environmental Sciences
The interconnected global economic system - combined with high rates of resource utilization and the degradation of natural capital - is eroding the resilience of the economy, society and the environment to the point where, as illustrated by Covid-19, they have become a severe risk to the wellbeing of people and the economy (IRP, 2020). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Bond
 31 May 2021 PhD Research Project

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Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Autonomous Microfluidic Platform for Healthcare Applications
University of Birmingham School of Chemistry
The vision is to develop a complete, self-contained and self-powered microfluidic platform that has the sensitivity and selectivity of the current best clinical diagnostics (such as ELISA) but which can be used by anybody, anywhere and at any time with results reported in minutes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Gupta
 Year round applications PhD Research Project

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Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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MSc by Research programme - Jasmonate control of barley development
University of Dundee School of Life Sciences
From the earliest farmers to modern plant breeders, humans have continually modified the body plan of cereals, sometimes drastically, to generate higher grain yields. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S McKim
 5 August 2021 PhD Research Project

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Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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