palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

NERC ACCE Doctoral Training Partnership: Investigating the axial underpinnings of mammalian locomotor and ecological diversity

University of Liverpool Faculty of Health and Life Science

The ACCE DTP is committed to recruiting extraordinary future scientists regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, faith or religious belief, pregnancy or maternity, parental or caring responsibilities or career pathway to date. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Bates, Dr K Jones, Dr J Charles, Dr N Cooper

8 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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ACCE DTP Studentship - How are mass extinctions shaping biodiversity?

University of Sheffield School of Biosciences

The ACCE DTP is committed to recruiting extraordinary future scientists regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, faith or religious belief, pregnancy or maternity, parental or caring responsibilities or career pathway to date. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Guillerme, Dr G Thomas, Dr N Cooper

8 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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QUADRAT DTP: Reconstructing the spatial ecology of cave bears: integrating geochemical, biomolecular and microwear analysis to explore the relationship between range size, sex and dietary ecology in extinct and ancestral European Late Pleistocene Ursidae

Aberdeen University School of Geosciences

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Although Late Pleistocene bears (especially cave bears) have the focus of a considerable body of research, the spatial ecology of these Late Pleistocene Ursids has received little attention. Read more

Supervisors: Prof K Britton, Dr M Blaauw

17 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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The microstructure and biomechanics of pterosaur wing bones

University of Portsmouth School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences

Applications are invited for a fully-funded three-year PhD to commence in October 2024. The PhD will be based in the Faculty of Science, and will be supervised by Dr Roy Smith, Professor David Martill and Dr Charles Wood. . Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Smith, Dr C Wood

19 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Studying past Southern Ocean coccolithophores during warm intervals for future climate change solutions (SO-WARM)

University of Portsmouth School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences

Applications are invited for a fully-funded three-year PhD to commence in October 2024. The PhD will be based in the School of the Environment, Geography & Geosciences, and will be supervised by Dr Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero, Professor Craig Storey and Dr Tom Dunkley Jones. . Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Saavedra-Pellitero, Dr C Storey

19 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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SCENARIO: "The Pelican Brief”: Using environmental archives to establish ecological baselines for UK wetland biodiversity restoration

University of Reading School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science

Co-supervisors. Samuel Turvey, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London; Andrew Kitchener, Principal Curator of Vertebrate Biology, National Museums Scotland . Read more

Supervisors: Dr W Mills, Dr S Black

12 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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OP2436 Understanding the legacy of Cenozoic climates to better inform future forest conservation and management strategies

Northumbria University Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Understanding how individual plant taxa will respond to climate change is critical for conserving biodiversity. This is especially true for trees with relict distributions, vulnerable to endangered status or monotypic members of genera and families. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Pound

11 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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NERC E4 Extinction and survival at the dawn of plant life on land

University of Edinburgh School of Biological Sciences

Research Group: Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences

Summary. Establishing why certain groups go extinct while others prevail remains a key question in evolutionary biology. Here you will establish why the lycopsids survived while the zosterophylls went extinct. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Hetherington, Dr P Kenrick

4 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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ACCE DTP Studentship - Nature’s laboratories: allometric constraint and the evolution of island vertebrates

University of Sheffield School of Biosciences

The ACCE DTP is committed to recruiting extraordinary future scientists regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, faith or religious belief, pregnancy or maternity, parental or caring responsibilities or career pathway to date. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Thomas, Dr T Herridge, Dr N Cooper

8 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Evolution of Mammalian Locomotion

The University of Manchester Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

A PhD opportunity is available in the lab of Dr. Katrina Jones at the University of Manchester. The lab studies the evolution of mammalian locomotion drawing from methods in comparative anatomy, biomechanics, paleobiology, and evolutionary modelling. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Jones

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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We have 10 palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 10 palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

NERC ACCE Doctoral Training Partnership: Investigating the axial underpinnings of mammalian locomotor and ecological diversity

ACCE DTP Studentship - How are mass extinctions shaping biodiversity?

QUADRAT DTP: Reconstructing the spatial ecology of cave bears: integrating geochemical, biomolecular and microwear analysis to explore the relationship between range size, sex and dietary ecology in extinct and ancestral European Late Pleistocene Ursidae

The microstructure and biomechanics of pterosaur wing bones

Studying past Southern Ocean coccolithophores during warm intervals for future climate change solutions (SO-WARM)

SCENARIO: "The Pelican Brief”: Using environmental archives to establish ecological baselines for UK wetland biodiversity restoration

OP2436 Understanding the legacy of Cenozoic climates to better inform future forest conservation and management strategies

NERC E4 Extinction and survival at the dawn of plant life on land

ACCE DTP Studentship - Nature’s laboratories: allometric constraint and the evolution of island vertebrates

Evolution of Mammalian Locomotion

We have 10 palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 10 palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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