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wildlife PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 35 wildlife PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

EASTBIO SRUC Developing welfare impact assessments for wild and functionally wild animals

SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College

PHD Opportunities

Human activity can impact on wild animals, or those living in a wild state, both directly (e.g. through population management activities, translocations or reintroductions etc.) or indirectly (e.g. Read more

Supervisor: Prof C Dwyer

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

EASTBIO (CASE): Antimicrobial Use in UK Gamebirds: Understanding Industry Practices and Reducing Resistance Risks

University of Edinburgh

Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies (College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine)

Around 45 million pheasants and red-legged partridges are released annually in the UK, making the gamebird sector a significant part of rural land use. Read more

Supervisors: Dr LG Glendinning, Dr JM Mitchell

16 November 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Environmental Influences on Immune Function and Health in Wild Barbary Macaques

Liverpool John Moores University

Faculty of Science

We are seeking candidates to apply for Liverpool John Moore’s’ Vice Chancellor PhD Scholarship. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Koyama, Dr PT Tkaczynski

9 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Evidencing natural flood management in lowland wetlands

University of Leeds

School of Geography

Lowland wetland systems such as those around the Norfolk Broads in eastern England play a role in both fluvial and tidal-influenced flood protection. Read more

Supervisors: Prof J Holden, Dr R Grayson

12 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

EASTBIO SRUC Understanding and Addressing Rural Hedgehog Population Declines (CASE)

SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College

PHD Opportunities

Hedgehogs have been voted as Britain’s favourite mammal, yet populations in the UK and Western Europe have been declining at an alarming rate over recent decades. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Littlewood

30 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

The role of bridge infrastructure in urban liveability: The case of Northern Ireland

Ulster University - Belfast Campus

Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment

Research Group: Architecture, Built Environment and Planning

Bridges are incredibly important, nonetheless their design, function, publics, locations, usefulness, and main users remain little understood in urban liveability studies. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Balsas, Prof N J Hewitt

8 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Evolutionary genomics of climate stress resilience in European badgers

University of Exeter

Predicting the impacts of global change on animal health and disease requires an understanding of the genetic drivers and evolutionary potential of organismal resilience to climatic stressors (heat waves and droughts). Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Young

2 December 2026 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Development and application of multispecies spatial capture-recapture models

University of St Andrews

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Research Group: Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental Modelling

Spatial capture-recapture is a widely used framework for estimating animal density and distribution for data collected from a variety of ecological monitoring approaches, including camera trapping and acoustic surveys. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BS Stevenson, Prof J Matthiopoulos, Dr C Sutherland

5 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

UKRI BBSRC NEEDL DLA: Exploring Nodavirus diversity from crayfish hosts: assessing implications for human health risks

Teesside University

BBSRC NEEDL DLA Partnership

CASE Project. Teesside University, Durham University, the University of Leeds, and the Environment Agency are delighted to offer a new interdisciplinary PhD opportunity investigating emerging nodaviruses in UK aquatic wildlife. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Bojko

24 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

Machine learning enhanced sea-ice dynamics for climate modelling

University of Reading

Department of Meteorology

This PhD is part of the Net Zero Polar Science DTP, which aims to make polar science possible in a net zero world. For further details visit https://nzps-dtp.ac.uk/. Read more

Supervisors: Prof D Feltham, Dr M Thomas, Dr A Bateson, Dr NC Chakraborty, Dr E Fiedler , Dr E Blockley

6 January 2027 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

EastBio: From Burden to Biology: Mercury, Selenium and Physiological Resilience in Marine Mammals

University of Aberdeen

School of Biological Sciences

This fully funded, 4-year PhD project is part of a competition funded by the BBSRC EASTBIO Doctoral Training Partnership. Marine mammals accumulate some of the highest concentrations of mercury (Hg) recorded in wildlife. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Derous, Dr M Wenzel, Dr RVH von Hellfeld, Dr J Feldmann

16 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

How do populations respond to environmental change, and how well can we predict their future?

University of Sheffield

School of Biosciences

We welcome applications from motivated PhD students interested in population ecology, demographic modelling and biodiversity science. Read more

Supervisors: Prof D Childs, Prof A Beckerman

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

EastBio Partnership – Polyester Depolymerisation Mediated by Artificial Metalloenzymes

University of Edinburgh

School of Chemistry

An estimated 31.9 million tonnes of mismanaged plastic waste enters the environment annually,[1] contaminating oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Garden, Dr A Jarvis

16 November 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

The net effect of sex on adaptation GRIESHOP_UEA_ARIES27

University of East Anglia

School of Biological Sciences

Background. Why is sexual reproduction nearly ubiquitous among eukaryotes? Investing into offspring that are only half yours is known as the 2-fold cost of sex. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Grieshop

16 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Integrated spatial transmission modelling to support targeted surveillance and intervention strategies for Guinea worm eradication

Royal Veterinary College

London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Consortium (LIDo)

Guinea worm eradication is at a historic threshold. If achieved, dracunculiasis would become only the second human disease ever eradicated, after smallpox. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Walker, Dr OE Eneanya, Dr MD Delea

1 December 2026 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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