agricultural PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 77 agricultural PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Sensor Integration for Enhanced Safety and Automation in Agricultural Applications.

Atlantic Technological University Research

The Postgraduate Research Training Programme for MedAgriTech AI eXcellence (MATX) offers 12 PhD research scholarships to commence in 2024. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Mulrennan, Dr M McAfee, Dr P Long

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Post-Hurricane Damage and Recovery: A remote assessment of agricultural resilience in the Caribbean

Coventry University Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience

Introduction. Remote sensing, earth obHurricanes cause widespread damage to agriculture, resulting in vegetation loss and decreased productivity. Read more

Supervisor: Dr CHB Hill- Butler

27 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Developing an integrated tool to assess soil health in agricultural settings

University of Plymouth Faculty of Science and Engineering

Applications are invited for a 3.5 years PhD studentship within the Environmental Intelligence doctoral training programme at the University of Plymouth. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Rowntree

26 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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How does agricultural crime affect the psychological health of farmers: a longitudinal exploration of the impact of victimisation on UK farmers

Harper Adams University Food, Land & Agribusiness

Agricultural crime is a fact of life for British farmers. While no official figures exist for this type of crime, key rural stakeholders such as NFU Mutual publish regular indicators of the level of the problem. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Smith

17 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Role of ditch networks in agricultural landscapes to mitigate flooding and diffuse pollution.

Heriot-Watt University School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society

This project is part of the NERC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training, ECOWILD. For more details, and for a full list of projects offered under this programme, please visit. Read more

Supervisors: Dr I Pattison, Prof C Spray, Dr K Redeker

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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From top-down to bottom-up – enabling a new collaborative approach to agricultural abstraction management to protect river ecosystems - PhD

Cranfield University School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE)

Agriculture is an important user of water in many catchments in England, particularly in the East. Water is abstracted from rivers and aquifers to… Read more

Supervisor: Prof I P Holman

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Development of an Automated System for Manipulating Soft Agricultural Materials

University of Birmingham Department of Mechanical Engineering

Industry 4.0 is transforming solutions in various industrial fields. The development and adoption of automated technologies using robotics and applications of Artificial Intelligence enhance the current manual procedures with higher accuracy and better repeatability. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Hajiyavand

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Unsaturated soil hydrology – Soil water retention technology for agricultural production improvement

University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Information on this PhD research area can be found further down this page under the details about the Widening Participation Scholarship given immediately below. Read more

Supervisor: Dr W Wang

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

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Sustainable Precision Farming: An Explainable Self-Supervised Generative Learning Approach Leveraging the Internet of Robotics Things (IoRTS) and Digital Twin

Atlantic Technological University Research

The Postgraduate Research Programme MedAgriTech AI eXcellence (MATX) offers 12 PhD research scholarships to commence in 2024. Each project will include an enterprise placement of minimum 12 weeks duration. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Henna, Dr S Gharbia, Dr EF Furey

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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“Cultivating Change: Navigating the Social and Ethical Landscape of AI in Agriculture.”

Harper Adams University Department of Agriculture and Environment

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into agriculture marks a pivotal shift towards more efficient, sustainable, and resilient farming practices (Patrício & Rieder, 2018). Read more

Supervisor: Dr DI Iakovidis

17 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Self-funded MSc R- Understanding the consequences of unpredictable cold stress events on a beneficial insect and the implications for natural pest control in agricultural landscapes

University of Bristol School of Biological Sciences

The earth is currently experiencing rapid changes in climate. As ectotherms, insects are highly susceptible to temperature change, with temperature impacting all aspects of their fitness. Read more

Supervisor: Dr LA Alford

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

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Agricultural genomics, chromosomes, genome and repetitive sequence evolution in crops, farm animals, models and wild relatives

University of Leicester Department of Genetics and Genome Biology

In this project, you will investigate the large-scale organization of an agricultural species and its wild relatives. We will use genomic data from DNA sequencing, including methylation where appropriate. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P HESLOP-HARRISON

Year round applications PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Multimodal remote sensing and Machine Learning for Precision Agriculture

University of Strathclyde Department of Chemical and Process Engineering

With the world population expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion by 2050, the demand for food and agricultural products will rise significantly in the coming years. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Cardona, Dr C Tachtatzis

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

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Fungal disease risks under landscape homogenisation: tracking fungal transmission across plant-pollinator networks using contemporary and historic museum specimens

Imperial College London Department of Life Sciences

Leverhulme funded PhD position on Plant-Pollinator Holobionts. Supervisor. Dr Richard Gill, Dept. of Life Sciences, Silwood Park, Imperial College London (ICL). Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Gill

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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