NERC-funded PhD studentships: Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Natural History Museum, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Zoological Society of London

The Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet (SSCP) Doctoral Training Partnership integrates six host partners and a number of business and policy sector partners, to offer an exciting programme that trains and inspires the next generation of environmental experts and leaders to tackle some of the toughest challenges of our time. The SSCP is funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council and based at Imperial College London. Projects for an October 2020 start are listed below. For a full list of these and other projects, with links to detailed descriptions, information on eligibility and instructions on how to apply, go to:
www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/education/science-and-solutions-for-a-changing-planet-dtp/studentship-opportunities/

For project-related queries and to apply, contact individual supervisors. For general enquiries about the SSCP DTP, contact Christiane Morgan, Doctoral Training Coordinator ([email protected]).

Closing date for applications 6^th January 2020.

List of supervisors and projects in the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in 2020

Professor David Spurgeon – Understanding the role of phytochelatins in detoxifying toxic metal pollutants in invertebrate species

Professor Andy Purvis - Niche evolution and trophic diversity in birds and mammals

List of supervisors and projects in the Natural History Museum in 2020

Professor Anjali Goswami – Reconstructing skull evolution of fossil crown birds

Dr Anne D. Jungblut – How can microbiomes and soil biodiversity support food security?

Professor Matthew C. Fisher – Uniting Museum Collections and Genomics to Trace Emerging Pathogens across the Anthropocene

List of supervisors and projects in the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 2020

Dr Richard Siddans – Identifying how and why the Earth’s outgoing longwave energy spectrum has changed over the last decade

Dr Helen Brindley – To warm or not to warm: Exploiting far-infrared measurements of cirrus cloud in support of the FORUM satellite mission

List of supervisors and projects in the Zoological Society of London in 2020

Professor Rosie Woodroffe - Nature-based tourism in a changing climate: costs and benefits for endangered species

Dr Marcus Rowcliffe - What works? Counting badgers to evaluate lethal and nonlethal approaches to bovine TB control

Dr Chris Yesson - Developing Environmental DNA techniques as a marine biodiversity monitoring tool in the Indian Ocean