pollution PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Clearing the Air: Co-exploration of Air Pollution through a Participatory Action Research and Modelling Approach (Ref: IDRT24/BL/UF/DILAVER)

Northumbria University Faculty of Business and Law

Air pollution is a complex problem. Read more

Supervisors: Dr O Dilaver, Prof A Namdeo

26 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Understanding Southern African air pollution

University of York Department of Chemistry

Background. Air pollution is a significant societal concern due to its detrimental impacts on health, impacts on ecosystems and crops, and its interactions with climate change. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Evans

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

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QUADRAT DTP: How does the local environment and pollutants synergistically affect our cognitive health?

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. This project offers the opportunity to develop a synergistic approach between the geoscientists and medical scientists and public health practitioners. Read more

Supervisors: Prof J McKinley, Dr G Norton

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

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Exploiting state-of-the-art geostationary satellite data to investigate Asian & North American air quality

University of Leeds School of Earth & Environment

Poor air quality is one of the largest environmental stresses on human health (Cohen et al., 2017) and most severely impacts on countries with large dense populations and intense industrial/economic activities. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Pope, Dr B Kerridge, Prof M Chipperfield

Open Day(s) 5 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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AI-based digital twins technology to model environmental pollution and its impact on health and cardiovascular diseases

Liverpool John Moores University Faculty of Engineering & Technology

About the project. Recently, air, noise, and light pollution have emerged as important but often overlooked risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Ortega Martorell, Dr I Olier-Caparroso, Prof G Lip, Prof L Kuzma

18 December 2023 PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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The Pollution-Climate-Health Dilemma: Cleaner Air but Poorer Health Outcomes under a Changing Climate?

Lancaster University Envision DTP

In the UK, air pollution has been identified as the largest environmental risk to public health, causing between 28-36,000 deaths per year. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Whyatt, Prof S Metcalfe

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

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CDTS315: Pollution from source to cetaceans – antimicrobials as a case study for One Health wastewater pollution

Bangor University School of Natural Sciences

Marine ecosystems are of immense ecological and economic significance, under increasing threat from poorly understood pharmaceutical pollution. Read more

Supervisors: Dr E Jameson, Prof M Fitzsimon, Dr T Andrade, Dr R Williams

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

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Microplastics and Ocean Literacy – Empowering Rural Communities to Manage Plastic Pollution

University of Hull School of Environmental Sciences

Ocean plastic pollution has received increasing interest from the media, NGO and scientific community. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Waller

15 February 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Children’s cognitive development: how is it affected by traffic-related air pollution in and around schools?

The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

There is evidence that air pollution can have a negative impact on children’s cognitive development (Gartland et al., 2022). Read more

Supervisors: Dr NG Gartland, Prof M van Tongeren, Dr T Bannan, Dr AH Hood

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

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Environment Modelling: Leveraging Air Quality for Sustainable Cities

Ulster University - Belfast Campus Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

Research Group: Computing

How do you know if your health is being harmed by pollution?. Ambient air pollution is the world’s leading environmental health risk and a pervasive threat to urban healthy living (Brook, Newby and Rajagopalan, 2017; Wells et al., 2018; Edwards et al., 2022). Read more

Supervisor: Dr JS Santos

26 February 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Quantifying the impacts of Low Emission Zones (LEZs) on urban air quality, health, inequalities and wellbeing

University of Stirling School of Biological & Environmental Sciences

Air pollution is a public health emergency (Holgate, 2022), responsible for an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year globally. Read more

Supervisors: Dr H PRICE, Dr D Lee, Dr C Di Marco

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

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Nitrogen oxides in remote tropical ocean environments and their impact on air pollution and climate

University of York Department of Chemistry

Nitrogen oxides (NO. x. ≡ NO+NO. 2. ) play a central role in the chemistry of the atmosphere, controlling both the production and loss of key air pollutants and climate gases such as methane, ozone, and particulate matter. Primarily emitted by human activity over land, NO. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Edwards

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

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Sensors and AI for low-cost source apportionment (CENTA 2024-B39)

University of Birmingham School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Air pollution is a global killer responsible for approximately 7 million premature deaths per year worldwide. Cities with healthy populations are more prosperous because the population's life expectancy, quality of life, and productivity are all increased. Read more

Supervisor: Prof F Pope

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

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Combining information from multiple sources to estimate exposures to air pollution

The University of Manchester Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Poor air quality is the largest environmental risk to public health, and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4.2 million premature deaths every year can be attributed to fine particulate ambient air pollution (PM. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Thomas

14 February 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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BEST N2: Managing the Nitrogen Cycle and Tackling Fixed Nitrogen Pollution Using BEST ANAMMOX for Enhanced N2 Production

Loughborough University Department of Chemical Engineering

The nitrogen (N) cycle is one of the most important and intricate biogeochemical cycles that control key nutrient supplies for all life forms on Earth. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Islam, Dr DBD Das, Dr D Ryves

10 January 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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