We have 11 Queen’s University Belfast, School of Natural and Built Environment PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Turbulence is known to be a critical mechanism in mass transfer, mixing and dissipation of energy and crucial to understanding the hydrodynamic process in our oceans. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Frost, Dr B Kurjanski

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

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QUADRAT DTP: Ecohydrological response of tropical peatlands to climate change and human impacts

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Globally, peatlands contain stored C equivalent to the amount that would be emitted to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels at the 2007 annual global rate for the next 75 years. Read more

Supervisors: Prof G Swindles, Dr T Mighall

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

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QUADRAT DTP: Sensing extreme coastal waves

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Ocean waves are the fundamental drivers of most coastal processes, from mixing to sediment transport and coastal erosion. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Schmitt, Dr D R Green

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

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QUADRAT DTP: Understanding the controls on cyanobacteria blooms in Northern Ireland lakes: a palaeolimnological perspective

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. OVERVIEW. The proliferation of harmful cyanobacteria algal blooms (cyanoHABs) is recognised as a global environmental problem threatening the quality of surface waters. Read more

Supervisors: Prof H Roe, Dr V Louca

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

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QUADRAT DTP: How does the local environment and pollutants synergistically affect our cognitive health?

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. This project offers the opportunity to develop a synergistic approach between the geoscientists and medical scientists and public health practitioners. Read more

Supervisors: Prof J McKinley, Dr G Norton

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

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QUADRAT DTP: A Late Glacial and Holocene tephrostratigraphy for Antarctica

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. This project will reconstruct the Late Glacial and Holocene volcanic history represented within the Fletcher ice core from the Fletcher Promontory to southwest of the Ronne Ice Shelf, western Antarctica. Read more

Supervisors: Prof G Plunkett, Prof M Spagnolo

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

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QUADRAT DTP: AgriTherm - The role of geothermal energy in decarbonising the UK Agri-Food sector

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Agriculture is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. In Northern Ireland, agriculture remains the highest-emitting sector and the only sector to have shown an increase since the base year of 1990. Read more

Supervisors: Dr U Ofterdinger, Dr J C Comte

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

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QUADRAT DTP: Historical trends and future projections in lake and river ice phenology

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. In the last century the global average temperature has increased by ~1 °C, with the rate of increase doubling in recent decades and the northern high latitudes warming at 2-3 times the rate of the global average. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Newton, Prof M Spagnolo

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

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QUADRAT DTP: World cup in the Arctic? Sport adaptation to extreme heat in a warming world

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. The global sports industry was valued at almost 500 billion U.S. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Mullan, Dr C Hambly

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QUADRAT DTP: Carbon footprint reduction by repurposing fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) composite waste for marine renewable energy

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Karimirad, Prof A Hastings

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

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QUADRAT DTP: Carbon dynamics in blanket peatlands

Queen’s University Belfast School of Natural and Built Environment

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. This research project will enhance our knowledge of rates of blanket peat accumulation, how these vary with physical setting and how they influence wider environmental processes across a range of scales. Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Flynn, Dr D Mauquoy

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

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We have 11 Queen’s University Belfast, School of Natural and Built Environment PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Queen’s University Belfast, School of Natural and Built Environment PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 11 Queen’s University Belfast, School of Natural and Built Environment PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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