Palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK) in the UK

We have 31 Palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK) in the UK

Unravelling the ecological mysteries of freshwater marl lakes: What is their blue carbon potential?

University of Stirling School of Biological & Environmental Sciences

Carbon captured and sequestered in marine and coastal environments, known as blue carbon, is recognised as a nature-based solution and a key part of the… Read more

Supervisors: Dr E Tisdall, Dr H Moorhouse, Dr I Jones

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

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Exchange of water between the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden recorded at DSDP Site 229

The University of Manchester Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Red Sea is relatively isolated from the Indian Ocean by a shallow sill near its connection with the Gulf of Aden at the Bab el Mandeb Strait. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Mitchell, Dr D Liebrand

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

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QUADRAT DTP: Reconstructing the spatial ecology of cave bears: integrating geochemical, biomolecular and microwear analysis to explore the relationship between range size, sex and dietary ecology in extinct and ancestral European Late Pleistocene Ursidae

Aberdeen University School of Geosciences

This fully funded, 42-month PhD project is part of the QUADRAT Doctoral Training Partnership. Although Late Pleistocene bears (especially cave bears) have the focus of a considerable body of research, the spatial ecology of these Late Pleistocene Ursids has received little attention. Read more

Supervisors: Prof K Britton, Dr M Blaauw

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

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Large-scale developmental dynamics of northern peatlands

University of Leeds School of Geography

Project description. Peatlands are terrestrial wetlands in which saturated soil conditions prevent the complete decomposition of plant litter, causing carbon-rich peat to accumulate at the Earth’s surface. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Morris, Dr L Taylor

Open Day(s) 5 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Alternative Earths and their habitability for complex life

University of Leeds Faculty of Environment

This project is supervised by Professor Benjamin Mills (Leeds), Dr Alex Krause (Leeds), Dr Andrew Rushby (UCL/Birkbeck) and Dr Christopher Colose (NASA GISS). Read more

Supervisor: Prof B J W Mills

Open Day(s) 5 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Antarctic tipping: Just how rapid was the last retreat of the Antarctic ice sheet?

University of Leeds Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Research Group: School of Mathematics

Ice mass loss from the Antarctic ice sheet is a major driver for sea level rise. For this reason, it is important to understand the ice sheet changes. … Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Voss, Dr Louise Sime

Open Day(s) 5 January 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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The Environmental Record of an Early Jurassic Carbonate Platform

University of Leeds Faculty of Environment

The Early Jurassic (201-174 Myrs ago) represents a time of marked environmental changes and evolution of the Earth system. Read more

Supervisors: Assoc Prof R J Newton, Prof P B Wignall, Prof I Vlahovic

Open Day(s) 5 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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The longest delay: the slow recovery from the Hangenberg mass extinction

University of Leeds Faculty of Environment

The end-Devonian (Hangenberg) mass extinction is one of the least studied and thus least understood major crises in Earth history. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P B Wignall

Open Day(s) 5 January 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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The microstructure and biomechanics of pterosaur wing bones

University of Portsmouth School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences

Applications are invited for a fully-funded three-year PhD to commence in October 2024. The PhD will be based in the Faculty of Science, and will be supervised by Dr Roy Smith, Professor David Martill and Dr Charles Wood. . Read more

Supervisors: Dr R Smith, Dr C Wood

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

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Fire Starters: Understanding Human vs Natural Fire Regimes in Britain

University of Portsmouth School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences

Applications are invited for a fully-funded three-year PhD to commence in October 2024. The PhD will be based in the Faculty of Science and Health, and will be supervised by Dr Mark Hardiman, Dr Adele Julier and Professor Ian Candy (Royal Holloway, University of London). Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Hardiman, Dr A Julier

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

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Studying past Southern Ocean coccolithophores during warm intervals for future climate change solutions (SO-WARM)

University of Portsmouth School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences

Applications are invited for a fully-funded three-year PhD to commence in October 2024. The PhD will be based in the School of the Environment, Geography & Geosciences, and will be supervised by Dr Mariem Saavedra-Pellitero, Professor Craig Storey and Dr Tom Dunkley Jones. . Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Saavedra-Pellitero, Dr C Storey

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

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The role of plant pathogens in climate induced societal collapse during the Bronze Age of Cyprus (Ref: RDF24/EE/GES/POUND)

Northumbria University Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Understanding past climate and environmental change is crucial to predicting the potential wider implications of anthropogenic climate change. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Pound

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

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Subglacial hydrology and climate change

University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Sciences

Project Overview. Glaciers are retreating worldwide and are a major contribution to global sea-level rise. There are many factors which control melting rate, particularly water at the glacier bed. Read more

Supervisors: Prof JK Hart, Dr GJ Roberts, Dr CL Lloyd

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

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Resolving Antarctic meltwater events in marine sediments and exploring their significance using climate models

University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Sciences

Project Overview. The principal aim is to understand how enhanced melting of the Antarctic ice sheet affects global ocean circulation, sea level and climate. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Allen, Dr Louise Sime, Dr AS Silvano, Dr G Swann, Prof ML Leng

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

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OP2436 Understanding the legacy of Cenozoic climates to better inform future forest conservation and management strategies

Northumbria University Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Understanding how individual plant taxa will respond to climate change is critical for conserving biodiversity. This is especially true for trees with relict distributions, vulnerable to endangered status or monotypic members of genera and families. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Pound

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

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We have 31 Palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK) in the UK

Palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK) in the UK

We have 31 Palaeontology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for European Students (exc UK) in the UK

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