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Environmental Sciences PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 197 Environmental Sciences PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Airborne Intelligent Monitoring and Quantification of Greenhouse Gases (Ref: AAE-CL-2521)

Methane (CH₄) is the second most significant greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO₂), with over 30 times the global warming potential over a 100-year period. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Liu
 30 September 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Mapping Global Health Through Wastewater: A PhD in mass spectrometry at the Cutting Edge of Public Health

Wastewater‑based epidemiology (WBE) is a rapidly emerging and highly interdisciplinary research field that uses chemical and biological markers in wastewater to provide near‑real‑time, population‑level insights into health, behaviour, and environmental exposures. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof B Kasprzyk-Hordern, Prof JCB Barnett, Prof D Jones
 14 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Utilisation of textile waste for enhanced biogas production (Ref: ABCE-SECC-TR)

Large amounts of textile waste are generated worldwide during their manufacture and as post-consumer waste. Textile recycling is difficult as a variety of fabric materials are used in production, and most of it ends up in landfills or get incinerated. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr T Radu, Dr H Bandulasena
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Risk Transfer, Homeowner Resilience, and Sustainable Urban Development in the UK (Ref: ABCE-ISBE-MDP)

The United Kingdom faces a critical, dual imperative. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Del Pinto, Prof K Chmutina
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Creep and Durability of Weakly Stabilised Clays (Ref: ABCE-ICM-MF)

Traditionally stabilised materials in infrastructure are used near the top of earthworks to create increased performance of the overlying pavement or railway track structures. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M Frost, Dr A El-Hamalawi
 30 June 2026  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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High dimensional panel data analysis

High dimensional data arises from monitoring pollution, meteorological indicators and other features that characterizes a complex system. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Barrios
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Aptamer-based biosensing platform for monitoring of nanoplastic and biotoxin co-exposure as human exposome surveillance platform

The quantifications of humans exposure to biotic and abiotic contaminants remains as one of the most significant technical gaps in human exposome studies. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MY Khai Khun
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Dual-omics profiling and ensemble machine learning for mapping cell state dynamics and exposure thresholds in response to nanoplastic–biotoxin co-exposures

The human exposome is defined by the totality of environmental exposures across a lifetime, which represents one of the most complex determinants of human health (IHEN). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr MY Khai Khun
 31 July 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Living with Floods Across Generations: Memory, imagination, and young people’s place-based understandings of risk

Floods leave more than watermarks on walls; they become embedded in the social memory of communities, shaping how risk is understood and acted upon over time. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof H Cloke
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Modelling the Impact of Air Conditioning Demand on the Future UK Electricity System

The UK electricity system is currently undergoing significant transformation as the country moves towards a low-carbon and more sustainable energy future. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Jones
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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The Role of Cities in Decarbonised Biobased Food Systems

As the world transitions to low carbon systems across all sectors, dramatic changes will be required across our society to reach our net zero targets. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Mohareb
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Net zero housing retrofits - assuring a sustainable low-carbon transition in the domestic sector

The UK has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The UK's 29 million houses represent 14% of total emissions (CCC, 2019), with nearly 90% of these built more than 20 years ago before stricter energy efficiency standards came into force (Ince & Marvin, 2019). Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Mohareb
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Synergies between thermal and optical properties of the Urban Green Infrastructure - urban surfaces system

The combined effects of urbanization and global warming intensify urban overheating and increase both the frequency and severity of climate change–driven extreme heat events with detrimental consequences to public health and infrastructure. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C.H. Halios
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Rethinking Cooling in the Built Environment for a Warming World

Project Overview. As global temperatures rise, the need to keep buildings cool is becoming one of the fastest growing energy challenges of our time. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Jones
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD position examining temporal development of distributed volcanic fields - University of Auckland, New Zealand

We seek candidates for a PhD position examining the temporal evolution of volcanic fields. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr J Muirhead
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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