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NERC-funded PhD studentships: School of Public Health

NERC-funded PhD studentships: School of Public Health

The Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet (SSCP) Doctoral Training Partnership integrates six host partners and several business and policy sector partners, to offer an exciting programme that trains and inspires the next generation of environmental experts and leaders to address some of the toughest challenges of our time. The SSCP DTP is funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and is based at the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London.

Projects for an October 2024 start are listed below. Some projects listed are led by a core partner and co-supervised by an Imperial supervisor - these are listed both under the department as well as the core partner and are marked with an asterisk*. For a full list of these and other projects, further details on the studentships, 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, contact individual supervisors. For general enquiries about the SSCP DTP, contact Christiane Morgan, Doctoral Training Coordinator.

Closing date for applications: Monday 8 January 2024, midday (12pm GMT).

List of supervisors and projects in School of Public Health in 2024

Project Title Lead Supervisor
Modelling strategies for the release of genetically-modified mosquitoes for arboviral control across different ecological settings Dr Penny Hancock
Pregnancy losses under a changing climate in England Prof Marta Blangiardo
Implications of climate variability on norovirus burden and control Dr Katy Gaythorpe
Advance geospatial AI for understanding and forecasting environmental suitability for human vector-borne diseases in UK under a changing climate Dr Monica Pirani
Evaluating the impact of palm oil sustainability certification on health of local communities in Southeast Asia Dr Kristine Belesova
Air pollution data rescue - datasets for climate, health and policy Dr Gary Fuller
How do pathogen genotype climate envelopes dictate opportunities for coinfections and recombination of a multihost pathogen? Prof Trenton Garner (ZSL)/ Professor Matthew Fisher*