We have 42 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Non-European Students in Reading

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Understanding the role of wetlands during floods of the White Nile basin using satellite data

University of Reading Department of Meteorology

In 2021 the worst flooding in living memory in South Sudan affected over 835,000 people in communities already suffering from the protracted conflict. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Maidment, Dr J Nanteza, Prof E Black

15 December 2023 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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SCENARIO: How will extreme weather affect the energy sector in Europe under climate change?

University of Reading Department of Meteorology

Research Group: SCENARIO NERC DTP

Weather affects both electricity supply and demand, for example during still and cold winter days when low supply from wind turbines coincides with high demand for heating. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Schiemann, Dr D Brayshaw, Dr L Dubus, Dr C Grams

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

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SCENARIO: Correcting for errors in location of features in numerical weather forecasts using ‘field warping’

University of Reading Department of Meteorology

Research Group: SCENARIO NERC DTP

Are you a physicist, mathematician, engineer, meteorologist, computer scientist or other quantitative scientist who likes the idea of earning a PhD working with some of the most fascinating and complex physical models, like those that forecast the weather?. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Bannister, Dr A Fowler, Dr W Ingram

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

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SCENARIO: "The Pelican Brief”: Using environmental archives to establish ecological baselines for UK wetland biodiversity restoration

University of Reading School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science

Co-supervisors. Samuel Turvey, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London; Andrew Kitchener, Principal Curator of Vertebrate Biology, National Museums Scotland . Read more

Supervisors: Dr W Mills, Dr S Black

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

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SCENARIO - Changes in soil structure and hydraulic properties using long-term monitoring to unveil hydrological process dynamics and improve numerical model parameterisation of soil-vegetation-atmosphere systems and support regenerative agriculture Nature-based Solutions

University of Reading Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

This project is based at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford. To comply with visa regulations, for international candidates, this project will be hosted at the University of Reading under lead supervision of Professor Anne Verhoef. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Dussaillant, Prof A Verhoef, Dr J Blake, Mr M Brown

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

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SCENARIO: How predictable is severe weather associated with elevated convection?

University of Reading Department of Meteorology

Deep convective clouds, such as those associated with thunderstorms, are responsible for the heaviest rain as well as strong winds, downdraughts and other high-impact weather. Read more

Supervisors: Prof P Clark, Prof SL Gray, Dr H Lean

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

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SCENARIO: Aviation turbulence in a warmer world

University of Reading Department of Meteorology

Research Group: SCENARIO NERC DTP

Co-supervisors. Veronique Blanc, Airbus; Sylvie Marquier; Airbus. Clear-air turbulence is a major meteorological hazard to the aviation sector. Read more

Supervisors: Prof P Williams, Dr MA Teixeira

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

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SCENARIO: Improved Analyses of Ocean Water masses, heat and salinity distributions

University of Reading Department of Meteorology

Research Group: SCENARIO NERC DTP

Reconstructing present-day and past ocean temperature salinity and circulation states is critical both to making long-range weather and climate forecasts and for understanding how the ocean has responded over the last century to imbalances in the Earth’s energy budget due to global warming. Read more

Supervisors: Prof K Haines, Dr D Lea, Dr M Martin

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

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SCENARO: Shining a light on short-term response of moths and their predators to climate extremes: harnessing the potential of automated AI camera and audio systems

University of Reading Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

This project is based at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford but to comply with Tier 4 visa regulations, for international candidates, this project will be hosted at the University of Reading under lead supervision of Tom Oliver. Read more

Supervisors: Mr D Roy, Prof T Oliver

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

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SCENARIO: Improving the representation of cloud and precipitation in global weather forecasts using EarthCARE’s novel Doppler velocity observations

University of Reading Department of Meteorology

Research Group: SCENARIO NERC DTP

Numerical weather prediction models rely on mathematical representations of the characteristics of rain and snow, and the physical processes that control them. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Westbrook, Dr S Mason

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

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SCENARIO: Towards a robust time of emergence of changes in extreme rainfall and temperature

University of Reading Department of Meteorology

Research Group: SCENARIO NERC DTP

Co-supervisor. Robin Clark, Met Office. Determining the time of emergence (ToE) of signals arising from anthropogenic climate change is a key issue in the subject of climate change attribution [1]. Read more

Supervisors: Dr B Dong, Dr E Hawkins, Dr P-A Monerie

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

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SCENARIO: Windstorms in a changing climate

University of Reading Department of Meteorology

Research Group: SCENARIO NERC DTP

Co-supervisor. Richard Dixon, Inigo Insurance / Visiting Research Fellow, University of Reading . Windstorms, a particularly hazardous form of the low-pressure systems that typically occur in the mid-latitudes in the autumn and winter, are one of the most important natural hazards impacting the UK. Read more

Supervisors: Dr O Martinez-Alvarado, Dr B Harvey, Dr A Volonté

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

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