Agriculture PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

We have 232 Agriculture PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

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

Full applications made before 15th January will be considered at any time. . Supervisor. Dr Richard Gill, Dept. of Life Sciences, Silwood Park, Imperial College London (ICL). Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Gill

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

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Tree stability in high winds

University of Birmingham Department of Civil Engineering

Forests play a crucial role regulating the climate, providing a haven for biodiversity and, increasingly, are a source of income for many. Read more

Supervisors: Prof N Metje, Prof Mark Sterling

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

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Hybrid Mass Spectrometry Methods to Determine Structure Activity Relationships for Photocatalytic Enzymes

The University of Manchester Department of Chemistry

This project will use ion mobility mass spectrometry, photoactivation, soft landing and single molecule imaging to understand enzyme structure function relationships. Read more

Supervisors: Prof P Barran, Prof N Scrutton, Dr D Heyes

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

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China Scholarship Council: Exploring the role of aphid salivary proteins in promoting susceptibility and virus transmission

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

Aphids are one of the most devastating insect pests, globally. These insects form a close association with their host and use specialized mouthparts (stylets), to probe leaf tissue and feed on the phloem over prolonged periods of time. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Bos

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

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Regenerative Farming Practices for Mustard

Rothamsted Research Research Projects

Colman’s are the best-known producers of English mustard and mint sauce. Unilever own the brand and have funding to support farmers to adopt regenerative agriculture practises which reduce the products’ carbon footprint and increase biodiversity. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Cook

4 December 2023 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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China Scholarship Council: Life on the Edge: understanding how cereals surfaces respond to change

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

Cereals are our primary source of calories. To safeguard our food supply, we must maintain cereal grain yields despite accelerating and more extreme temperature and drought events from climate change. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S McKim, Dr C Campoli

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

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Incorporating modelling and data to understand forest dynamics in a changing world

University of Birmingham NERC Doctoral Training Centre Studentships with CENTA

Climate change and changes in atmospheric composition are driving big changes in the lives of trees across the world’s forests. In many places, these changes are expected to make trees grow more quickly. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Kettridge

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

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China Scholarship Council: Using state-of-the-art genomics and genetics to clone functional disease resistance genes in potato

University of Dundee School of Life Sciences

Potato is the third most important food crop and consumed by over a billion people around the world. More than 375 million tonnes of potato were produced in 2021 but it’s estimated that approximately 25% are lost to diseases. Read more

Supervisors: Dr I Hein, Dr M Bayer, Dr T Adams

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

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From waste to compostable packaging: The environmental end-of-life impact of modified cellulosic films

University of Leeds Faculty of Environment

Industrialisation of manufacturing has dramatically reduced the cost of products for consumers leading to the creation of a throw-away society in which we “take-make-dispose”. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Y Benitez-Alfonso, Dr H M R Greathead

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

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Discover the future of sustainability with a PhD at the world’s #1 university for Built Environment studies

University College London

At the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, University College London (UCL), we believe a better future is possible. Read more

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Sequencing seeds for the future: development of tools for efficient utilisation of crop genetic diversity

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Global food security if facing multiple threats from climate change, population growth and the need to adopt farming methods that use fewer inputs such as irrigation. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Allender

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

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Modelling the spread and control of livestock and zoonotic infectious diseases

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Mathematical models are extensively used in both public-health and veterinary-health policy planning. Modern predictive models are now at the heart of policy decisions, and such models are having an increasing role in supporting decisions associated with livestock infections. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Tildesley

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

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Genomics-driven exploitation of aphid-killing bacteria as a source of novel biopesticides

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Aphids are major insect pests of agriculture and horticulture, causing damage to many economically important crop plants through direct feeding and/or as efficient vectors of numerous plant viruses. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Rabiey

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

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Clock-watchER: Circadian coordination of the plant endoplasmic reticulum

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

The rotation of the Earth creates periodic day-night changes in environmental conditions such as light and temperature. Organisms are able to adapt to these predictable diurnal cycles through their internal timekeeping system, the circadian clock, which has a periodicity of approximately 24 hours. Read more

Supervisor: Dr E Breeze

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

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Choreographing plant disease; pathogen effector manipulation of organelles – the view from inside

University of Warwick School of Life Sciences

Biotic stress contributes disproportionately to crop losses, accounting for in excess of 25% of global yield. Thus, developing novel approaches to restricting pathogen infections of crops and consequently improving yields must be a key future objective for food security. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Grant

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

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We have 232 Agriculture PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

Agriculture PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

We have 232 Agriculture PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students

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