Volcanology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students in the UK

We have 26 Volcanology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students in the UK

Understanding anomalous glacier fluctuations

University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences

Summary. This field-based project will utilise geomorphology, tephrochronology and remote sensing to better understand how Icelandic glacier fluctuations can be decoupled from climate drivers. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A J Dugmore, Dr R Bingham

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

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Automated analysis of volcano imagery with machine learning techniques

University of Sheffield Faculty of Social Sciences

Volcanic gas emissions provide an insight into subsurface magmatic processes; their accurate measurement is therefore critical to volcano monitoring and research. Read more

Supervisors: Dr TW Wilkes, Dr TP Pering, Dr JAS Alex dos Santos

14 January 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Magmas and volatiles in the southern Chilean volcanic arc

University of Leeds Faculty of Environment

Project background. Arcs, magmas, and volatiles. Subduction zone magmatism is associated with some of our planet’s largest volcanic eruptions and plays a key role in cycling volatile elements between Earth’s solid interior and surface. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Ferguson, Dr J Harvey

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

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Arctic climate variability and societal impacts 500-1500CE

University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences

Summary. The project will investigate the variability of the Greenland climate during the period 500-1500CE to better understand its role in driving societal change for the Dorset culture, Norse and Thule Inuit. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Schurer, Dr A J Dugmore, Prof M. N. Evans, Dr RJ Jackson

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

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NERC GW4+ DTP STUDENTSHIP: Subduction Initiation Along an Oceanic Plateau: Geochemical and Geochronological Constraints from the Early Panama Volcanic Arc

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

PROJECT BACKGROUND. Subduction initiation is one of the most fundamental but least understood processes in plate tectonics, which is closely associated with the start of volcanic arcs. Read more

Supervisors: Dr D Buchs, Dr M Horstwood, Dr M A Millet

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

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Global lahar model

University of Leeds Faculty of Environment

Summary. This project seeks to improve our understanding of the controls on the initiation, propagation, and impacts of lahars and other volcano-hydrologic hazards. Read more

Supervisors: Dr V Manville, Prof N Mountney, Dr J Carrivick

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

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Does mantle heterogeneity control the distribution of volcanic systems?

Royal Holloway, University of London Earth Sciences

Background. The Earth's crust is unique in our Solar System. The young (180 Ma), dense oceanic crust has low elevation compared to the less dense and significantly older (2–4 Ga) continental crust. Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Manning, Dr I Watkinson, Dr AD Dickson

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

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Petrogenesis of lunar mare basalts from the nearside eastern limb of the moon

The University of Manchester Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Project overview. The Moon preserves a record of volcanism on a small rocky terrestrial planet. Lunar lavas were mainly erupted between ~4.35 and 3 billion years ago, with some areas of the Moon being volcanically active as recently as 2 billion years ago. Read more

Supervisors: Dr K Joy, Dr DN Neave, Dr M Hartley, Dr J.S Snape

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

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Combining petrological experiments, numerical models of volcanic processes and field observations to investigate magma ascent and eruption transitions at basaltic volcanoes

The University of Manchester Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Volcanoes are amongst the most powerful and dangerous natural manifestations on Earth, and basaltic volcanism is the most common form of volcanic activity. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Polacci, Dr DN Neave, Dr BB Bonechi, Miss EB Biagioli

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

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Crystal-rich lavas from ocean island volcanoes: the effect of magma flux on magma reservoir processes

The University of Manchester Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Active volcanoes are increasingly thought to be underlain by vertically extensive magmatic plumbing systems dominated by crystal-rich mushes. Read more

Supervisors: Dr DN Neave, Dr M Hartley

14 February 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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The anatomy of an interglacial: interrogating the timing of Earth system responses to polar warming

University of Leeds School of Earth & Environment

Models of future climate change are, for the most part, informed by observational data spanning the last c.150 years – a period that has seen only limited climatic variability. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Barlow, Dr AM McGuire

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

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Enhanced organic carbon burial associated with volcanic ash deposition and the potential augmentation of this process for Greenhouse Gas Removal (Ref: RDF24/EE/GES/LONGMAN)

Northumbria University Faculty of Engineering and Environment

The burial of organic carbon (C. org. ) is one of the primary drivers of the marine carbon cycle. It provides a link between the active and stable carbon pools, and a mechanism by which carbon may be removed from the ocean-atmosphere system. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Longman, Prof M Rogerson

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

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Common origin or domino effect? Deformation and seismicity at Western Galápagos Volcanoes

University of Leeds School of Earth & Environment

Lead supervisor. Susanna Ebmeier (Leeds). Co-supervisors. Andrew Bell (Edinburgh), Davis Ferguson (Leeds). This project will use satellite radar measurements of displacement at the millimetre scale to explore recently proposed deep connections between the volcanoes of the Western Galápagos. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Ebmeier

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

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Impacts of volcanically induced climate change on medieval Icelandic farm abandonment

University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences

Summary. This interdisciplinary project uses down-scaled climate predictions to explore Medieval Icelandic farm settlement and abandonment patterns and possible links to global volcanic-induced climate change. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Newton, Dr A J Dugmore, Prof R Essery

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

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Translating magma intrusion into volcano surface deformation

University of Leeds Faculty of Environment

Full details of this project and the NERC Panorama DTP funding scheme can be found here. Academic Supervisors. Dr Craig Magee <c.magee@leeds.ac.uk> (Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics, School of Earth & Environment, University of Leeds). Read more

Supervisors: Dr C Magee, Dr S Ebmeier, Prof J P Forth, Dr JB Browning

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

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We have 26 Volcanology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students in the UK

Volcanology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students in the UK

We have 26 Volcanology PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for UK Students in the UK

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