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Taxonomy and biogeography of the world’s largest ecosystem based on combined morphological and molecular studies of amphipods
University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science
Project Rationale. Expeditions to survey and sample the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), in the central Pacific Ocean, are increasing, driven by commercial interests in the potential extraction of polymetallic nodules in the region. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Horton, Dr A Glover, Dr P Fenberg
 4 January 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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Taxonomy, biodiversity and population connectivity in the world’s largest deep-sea mining frontier – the Clarion Clipperton Zone, central Pacific abyss
University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science
Project Rationale. The Clarion-Clipperton Zone, central Pacific abyss, is the world’s largest frontier for the seabed mining of metals critical to a future green economy transition (e.g nickel and cobalt). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Glover, Dr J Copley, Dr D Jones
 4 January 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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Security Assurance of Operational Technology
Robert Gordon University Computing Science & Digital Media
Applications are invited for a Research Studentship (PhD) to carry out research within the School of Computing and Digital Media at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, under the supervision of Dr Andrei Petrovski and his team. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Petrovski
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Forams in the laser sights – time capsules of monthly-scale pH and temperature fluctuations?
University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science
Project Rationale. Palaeoclimate research plays a vital role in understanding how the climate system works and provides important test beds for state-of-the-art climate models used to predict our future climate state. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof G Foster, Dr T Ezard, Dr C Standish, Prof JA Milton
 4 January 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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How do species emerge?
University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science
Project Rationale. It is not individual traits that survive, reproduce and die, but whole individuals. Selection on one trait can generate a response to selection in others. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Ezard, Prof A Goswami
 4 January 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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Investigating the effects of environmental change on tropical montane butterflies and moths and their ecological interactions
University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science
Project Rationale. Habitat degradation is a growing threat in tropical montane forests, and combined with climate change, is causing an unprecedented risk of extinction of montane species [1]. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Peh, Dr R Morris
 4 January 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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Dinoflagellate cysts and palaeoenvironmental change during Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events: a study of OAE1a
Kingston University Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing
This project will study Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts. It seeks to understand relationships between dinocysts, a proxy for marine nutrient availability and organic zooplankton fertility, and episodes of black shale (petroleum source rock) deposition during Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs) in the mid-Cretaceous. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof I Jarvis, Prof G Gillmore
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Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Error, wants and shortcuts. Second generation Behavioural Finance and the new Cryptocurrencies
University of Dundee School of Business
The rapid growth in the global cryptocurrency market (widely expect to reach a total value of $1tr by the end of 2018) has been accompanied by acknowledgement of the potential for extreme volatility within this upward trend, as well as risk factors that the market’s international nature mean cannot be addressed by conventional state use of monetary policy tools. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof B Burton
 31 October 2020 PhD Research Project

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Masters by Research: Genome-based phylogenetic and functional analysis of industrially significant actinobacteria
Edinburgh Napier University School of Applied Sciences
Actinobacteria are known to produce a multitude of secondary metabolites and demonstrate diverse metabolic capabilities. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr F Stainsby, Dr H Vaughan
 1 December 2020 PhD Research Project

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Master by Research: Gregarine apicomplexan parasites in freshwater invertebrates
Edinburgh Napier University School of Applied Sciences
Gregarine apicomplexans are micro-eukaryotic parasites that are found in almost every group of terrestrial, freshwater and marine invertebrates (Leander 2008; Desportes & Schrével 2013). Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Rueckert, Dr J Dodd
 30 May 2021 PhD Research Project

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Evolutionary Perspectives on Medicinal Plant Use
University of Reading School of Biological Sciences
This project encompasses 1. evolutionary aspects of medicinal plant use and 2. authentication. You will collect DNA sequence data at the level of a whole flora and at the level of a genus. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J A Hawkins
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Design for meaning
Brunel University London Design
Problem Statement. With the increasing availability of affordable products, systems and services the attention of architects and designers is turning more-and-more to the properties of “experience” and “meaning”. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof J Giacomin
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Biology of the invasive Chinese mitten crab in the river Thames
Royal Holloway, University of London School of Biological Sciences
The Chinese mitten crab, Eriocheir sinensis, is an invasive brachyuran crab species (one of the top 100 most invasive species) that is now well established in the River Thames and tributaries. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof D Morritt
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