freshwater PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

We have 23 freshwater PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

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The hybridity of polluted freshwaters - PhD

Cranfield University School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE)

Freshwater pollution, a manufactured water landscape (waterscape), embedding with its flows and cycles technologies, institutions, discourses, and meanings which produce and are produced by power relations. Read more

Supervisor: Dr AO Ofori

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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The effects of climate change on nutrient and trace element dynamics in freshwater environments

Lincoln University (New Zealand) Department of Soil & Physical Sciences

Rapidly increasing temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO. 2. ) levels are adding substantial pressure to global freshwater systems, especially those that are already suffering degradation. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N. Lehto

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Investigating the impacts of environmentally relevant environmental stressor combinations on freshwater snails inhabiting mini-wetlands

Heriot-Watt University School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society

This project is part of the NERC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training, ECOWILD. For more details, and for a full list of projects offered under this programme, please visit. Read more

Supervisors: Dr F orton, Dr C Magill, Dr S Morris, Dr C Svendsen

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Predicting impacts of freshwater invasions: from the individual to ecosystems

University of Leeds Faculty of Biological Sciences

Research Group: School of Biology

OVERVIEW. Biological invasions are a key driver of global change, causing irreversible ecosystem change, biodiversity loss and enormous economic burden. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J South, Assoc Prof E.J. Duncan

26 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Multi-stressor interactions in the context of beaver-mediated recovery of natural processes within riparian habitats

University of the Highlands and Islands UHI Inverness

This project is part of the NERC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training, ECOWILD. For more details, and for a full list of projects offered under this programme, please visit. Read more

Supervisors: Dr B Hänfling, Dr C Howe, Prof M Jackson, Ms S Mackenzie

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Wetland recovery from extreme events

University of Oxford Department of Biology

This project is part of the NERC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training, ECOWILD. For more details, and for a full list of projects offered under this programme, please visit: https://ecowild.site.hw.ac.uk/. Read more

Supervisor: Prof M Jackson

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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The impacts of wildfire and afforestation in peatland: a multi-stressor approach to the recovery of peatland’s soil biota

University of the Highlands and Islands UHI Inverness

This project is part of the NERC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training, ECOWILD. For more details, and for a full list of projects offered under this programme, please visit. Read more

Supervisors: Dr B Hänfling, Ms M Ibanez Garcia, Dr C Waggershauser, Dr D Das

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Water Management-Desalination and Wastewater Treatment

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Water Engineering and Natural Environment

Water management is very important in many countries in the world. Out of many aspects of water management, freshwater production by desalination technologies (thermal and membrane) and wastewater treatment by various technologies are the most important ones. Read more

Supervisor: Prof I Mujtaba

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Antifouling membranes for sustainable water purification and desalination

University of Liverpool School of Engineering

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Maritime Energy solutions (N0MES) has a 4-year funded PhD place available for an exceptional researcher. Read more

Supervisors: Prof R D'Sa, Dr HN Ng

20 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Impact of flooding and erosion from extreme rainfall on EDF’s fleet of nuclear power stations

University of Liverpool School of Environmental Sciences

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Net Zero Maritime Energy solutions (N0MES) has a 4-year funded PhD place available for an exceptional researcher. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Lyddon, Prof J Cooper, Prof A Plater

20 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Detecting rapid changes and tipping points in the abyssal ocean circulation

University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Sciences

The abyssal ocean circulation is key to Earth’s climate. Numerical models suggest that the circulation is slowing down dramatically. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A. N. G. Garabato, Dr AS Silvano, Dr C.Z. Zheng

6 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Photoreforming of biomass to hydrogen in seawater

The University of Manchester Department of Chemical Engineering

This project focuses on production of hydrogen, a promising candidate for the next generation of energy vectors, through photoreforming of biomass in the presence of seawater. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Falkowska, Prof C Hardacre

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Micromechanical approaches for predicting fragmentation and abrasion of brown rice

Sheffield Hallam University Materials and Engineering Research Institute

The Industry and Innovation Research Institute (I2Ri) draws on talents, expertise and facilities across Sheffield Hallam University. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BE Edmans, Dr B N Dubey

10 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Impacts of multiple stressors (pollutants and disease) on beavers in England

University of the Highlands and Islands Environmental Research Institute, UHI North, West and Hebrides

This project is part of the NERC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training, ECOWILD. For more details, and for a full list of projects offered under this programme, please visit. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Taggart, Dr SQ Qassim, Dr T Sainsbury, Dr M G Pereira

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Integrated indicators of ecological health for rivers based on riverbed biofilms - PhD

Cranfield University School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE)

Pollution has resurfaced as a critical issue for the health of river ecosystems. Persistent and emerging water quality problems are being highlighted regularly by the media and community groups, pressuring regulators to reassess monitoring and assessment approaches. Read more

Supervisor: Dr R Grabowski

1 May 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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We have 23 freshwater PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

freshwater PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

We have 23 freshwater PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students

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