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CENTA 2027-B15 Embedding Biodiversity Protection into Battery Supply Chains

The global transition to electrified transport is driving unprecedented demand for battery minerals such as lithium and cobalt, frequently extracted in ecologically sensitive biodiversity hotspots -notably, nickel-cobalt production in Indonesia and the Philippines and copper/lithium production in the high-Andes. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J E Edge
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CENTA 2027-B14 Atmospheric Chemistry of Hydrofluoroolefins: Spectroscopic and Computational Studies of Fluorinated Criegee Intermediates

Hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs) are a new generation of refrigerants designed as environmentally friendly replacements for older halocarbons. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J B Beames
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Global bird community change and its drivers: building reliable evidence from uneven monitoring

How and why have bird communities changed over time? Repeated bird surveys at a sample of locations offer opportunities to answer these questions across continents. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Meyer
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Executable World Models for Robot Manipulation

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. An intelligent agent must infer how the physical world works from partial observations. A world model enables it to predict outcomes, compare actions and choose safely, particularly when mistakes are costly or irreversible. Read more
 Supervisors: Assoc Prof AT Tewari, Prof FF Forni
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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CENTA 2027-B18 Modelling function in the jaws of sharks throughout their evolutionary history

Sharks are a diverse, ecologically important, and vulnerable group of fishes with an ancient history. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Dearden
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CENTA 2027-B17 Finding the most explosive volcanoes on earth

While advances in volcanology have revealed much about eruption processes, research has largely concentrated on a small set of well-monitored volcanoes, geographically skewed towards continental and northern hemisphere regions. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Cassidy
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Evaluating AI for Human Agency: Towards Helpful, Agency-Preserving Decision Support

AI_CDT_DecisionMaking. Details. AI increasingly supports high-stakes decisions in areas such as healthcare, policing and social care. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MZ Zilka, Prof RT Turner
 4 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Can microclimate refugia save an iconic floral assemblage under climate change?

Globally, land-use change is the major driver of species loss, but climate change is rapidly catching up (1). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Senior
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CENTA 2027-B13 Health risks from individual and synergistic heat and air pollution under climate change

Main description. Extreme heat and air pollution are among the leading environmental threats to human health. They frequently occur together, yet their health impacts are still commonly assessed independently. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Z Shi
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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CENTA 2027-B12 AI-Enabled Prediction of UK Pollen Season Magnitude for Next-Generation Forecasting

Understanding and forecasting airborne pollen is essential for improving operational environmental prediction across the UK. While daily pollen forecasts have improved substantially in recent years, one of the greatest remaining challenges is predicting the overall magnitude of each pollen season. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof F Pope
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Uncertainty-aware decision-making for adaptive neural stimulation

AI CDT DecisionMaking. Details. Adaptive neurotechnology must make stimulation decisions from incomplete information about a changing nervous system. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof FM Mancini
 3 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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CENTA 2027-B11 Learning the changing extremes of European precipitation in a warming climate

One of the major challenges for the current and future climate diagnostics is the occurrence of very rare, but extreme intense precipitation events. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof G C LECKEBUSCH
 6 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Adapting to the Urban Night: Behavioural and Genomic Responses in Nocturnal Predators

Urbanised landscapes are among the fastest-growing ecosystems on Earth, with urban land cover projected to expand by 1.2 million km² from 2000 to 2030 (1). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Welch
 12 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in understanding depth-dependent magnetization configurations induced by spin and orbital current torques

`Orbital currents' transport orbital angular momentum in nanoscale thin-film magnetic multilayers without associated flow of charge. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A.T. Hindmarch
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Studentship in mechano-chemical information processing in soft and living matter

  Research Group: Condensed Matter Physics
We invite applications for a PhD studentship in the group of Dr. Avishek Das in Durham University for a project in information processing in soft and living matter. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Das
 15 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)