climate PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Local-level governance and environmental protection in Brazil

University of Reading Department of Politics and International Relations

About the Project. Local authorities are often the ones in charge of taking substantive measures to protect the environment. Read more

Supervisor: Dr V Araújo

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

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The Ethics of Communicating Scientific Risk

University of Reading Department of Politics and International Relations

Scientific research is intimately bound up with risk. For one thing, scientific findings often reveal significant societal risks, such as risks of catastrophic climate change or dangerous disease outbreaks. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Baderin, Dr m Lepoutre

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

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Urban gardens to improve health, biodiversity and climate-change resilience in cities in Bangladesh

University of York Department of Environment and Geography

Bangladesh has some of the most densely-populated cities facing overlapping risks of health, climate and urbanisation. Read more

Supervisors: Dr HE Elsey, Dr AH Haque, Prof P White

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

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Urban gardens to improve health, biodiversity and climate-change resilience in cities in Bangladesh

University of York Hull York Medical School

Bangladesh has some of the most densely-populated cities facing overlapping risks of health, climate and urbanisation. Read more

Supervisors: Dr HE Elsey, Dr AH Haque, Prof P White

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

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Media Sector Climate Impacts and Sustainability Interventions (BBC R&D)

University of Bristol School of Computer Science

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Supervisor: Dr DS Schien

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

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The impact of digital decarbonisation on physical and mental health: what role does stress-associated climate change play? (REF: SSEHS/NPVC)

Loughborough University School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Psychological stress exposure is a risk factor for a range of long-term health conditions. A prominent, real-world and ongoing stressor is climate change, which can impact our physical and mental health and yet remains largely unexplored. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Paine, Dr R Higginson, Prof L Jackson, Prof I Hodgkinson

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

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Optimising Transient Carbohydrate Partitioning in Wheat to Improve Climate Resilience

Harper Adams University Department of Agriculture and Environment

Elucidating the diversity and flexibility of plant metabolism is a key avenue of research in the pursuit of malleable traits to enhance plant productivity (Paul, 2021). Read more

Supervisor: Dr AWL Watson-Lazowski

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

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Improved prediction and forecasting of coastal compound flood hazard around the UK

University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Sciences

In low-lying coastal regions, flooding often arises from more than one drive (e.g. oceanographic, fluvial and/or pluvial), a phenomenon that is known as ‘compound flooding’. Read more

Supervisors: Dr I Haigh, Dr S Berthou

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

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Climate resilient submerged infrastructure

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team: Dr Gustavo de Almeida; Dr Sergio Maldonado. Project description. Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD position on the investigation of novel design methods to improve the resilience of submerged infrastructure (i.e. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G A M de Almeida

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Addressing the Psycho-Emotional Impact of Climate Anxiety on Children and Young People through Illustration

University of Worcester Research School

Climate change is contributing to a worldwide increase in physical and mental health needs. There is subsequently a critical bottleneck in supply and demand for mental health services in the UK and further afield, especially for child and adolescent mental health [1]. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Cussans

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Combined effects of climate change and cadmium exposure to physiological adaptation in early life stages of Christmas Island land crabs in wetland ecosystems

University of the Highlands and Islands Scottish Association for Marine Science

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 H Reinardy, Ms I Gosetto, Prof A Boxall, Dr L Turner

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

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Binks Institute for Sustainability: Optical Bistability and snowpack stability in a climate affected world

University of Dundee School of Science and Engineering

Many parts of the world rely on a predictable winter snowpack which then melts stably in the spring and summer to provide irrigation for agriculture. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M MacDonald, Dr P Teixeira

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

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Building proactive climate resilience into critical infrastructure assets

University of Birmingham Department of Civil Engineering

Critical transport infrastructure, play a key role for the seamless functioning of our societies. Several assets are approaching the end of their design life, whereas at the same time are subjected to ever-increasing traffic loads and natural hazards that are aggravated by climate change. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Mitoulis

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

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Using Radical Electrochemistry to Actively Rescue the Climate

University of Sydney School of Chemistry

The climate challenge has two important components, one is the depleting ozone layer in the stratosphere and the other is the increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the troposphere. Read more

Supervisor: Dr HJ Jiang

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

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Climate change on indoor air quality and energy nexus

Cardiff University Welsh School of Architecture

Professor Zhiwen Luo is looking for a PhD student to work on the research project Climate change on indoor air quality and energy nexus. Read more

Supervisor: Prof Z Luo

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We have 358 climate PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

climate PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 358 climate PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Local-level governance and environmental protection in Brazil

The Ethics of Communicating Scientific Risk

Urban gardens to improve health, biodiversity and climate-change resilience in cities in Bangladesh

Urban gardens to improve health, biodiversity and climate-change resilience in cities in Bangladesh

Media Sector Climate Impacts and Sustainability Interventions (BBC R&D)

The impact of digital decarbonisation on physical and mental health: what role does stress-associated climate change play? (REF: SSEHS/NPVC)

Optimising Transient Carbohydrate Partitioning in Wheat to Improve Climate Resilience

Improved prediction and forecasting of coastal compound flood hazard around the UK

Climate resilient submerged infrastructure

Addressing the Psycho-Emotional Impact of Climate Anxiety on Children and Young People through Illustration

Combined effects of climate change and cadmium exposure to physiological adaptation in early life stages of Christmas Island land crabs in wetland ecosystems

Binks Institute for Sustainability: Optical Bistability and snowpack stability in a climate affected world

Building proactive climate resilience into critical infrastructure assets

Using Radical Electrochemistry to Actively Rescue the Climate

Climate change on indoor air quality and energy nexus

We have 358 climate PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

climate PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 358 climate PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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