PhD research projects

UK Space Agency projects

Mars meteorites and missions: Optimisation of spectral analyses for the ExoMars rover

Application deadline: 4 February 2024

Detecting habitability signatures using spectroscopy on the ESA ExoMars Mars rover

Application deadline: 7 January 2024, 17.00 GMT

STFC Projects

Secondary impact craters as absolute stratigraphic markers on the Moon and Mars

Application deadline: Sunday 4 February 2024

Petrologic and geochemical constraints on volcanic eruptions on Amazonian Mars

Application deadline: Sunday 4 February 2024

Using phosphate minerals to investigate the geological history of carbonaceous asteroids

Application deadline: Sunday 4 February 2024

Salt hydrates at high pressure and low temperature: Implications for icy moon explorations

Application deadline: Sunday 4 February 2024

AHRC Projects

Colonial Coral: design for decolonising more-than-human worlds in the Natural History Museum

Application deadline: 29 January 2024

BHP projects

Detrital mineral records of fertile porphyry systems

Application deadline: Friday 9 February 2024

University of Reading/NHM PhD Studentship

Deciphering the Cambrian explosion of echinoderms

Application deadline: 25 February 2024

Nature-based interventions for human and planetary health

Application deadline: 25 February 2024

Pre-industrial phenological baselines for UK birds

Application deadline: 25 February 2024

Friend or Foe: microbe-plant interactions in agriculture

Application deadline: 25 February 2024

TARGET projects

Why are barren porphyry systems unmineralized?

Application deadline: Wednesday 31 January

Developing garnet and epidote as mineral indicators of porphyry-skarn ore systems

Application deadline: Wednesday 31 January

De-risking tailings from copper mining

Application deadline: Wednesday 31 January

Mineralogy informed flowsheet modelling

Application deadline: Wednesday 31 January

Other projects

Transforming meiofaunal molecular systematics and community ecology

Past projects

ACCE DTP Projects

The impact of climate driven changes on microbial diversity and ecology in ice-marginal lake in Greenland

Application deadline: 8 January 2024

CENTA DTP Projects

Marine Biodiversity and its future under environmental changes and exploitation

Application deadline: Wednesday 10 January 2024, 23:59 GMT

Tetrapod Diversity in the Purbeck Limestone group of England: Implications for Jurassic-Cretaceous Faunal Turnover

Application deadline: Wednesday 10 January 2024, 23:59 GMT

Dating the Icelandic Lowland Glaciation: Implications for Greenland Ice Sheet Vulnerability

Application deadline: Wednesday 10 January 2024, 23:59 GMT

GW4+ DTP Projects

Revisiting the 1928-29 Great Barrier Reef Expedition collection to digitally reconstruct a reef

Application deadline: Tuesday 9 January 2024, 23:59 GMT 

Comparative analysis and modelling of cilia motility in a major disease-causing parasite

Application deadline: Tuesday 9 January 2024, 23:59 GMT 

Reconstructing vertebrate faunal dynamics in Central Asia through the last mass extinction

Application deadline: Tuesday 9 January 2024, 23:59 GMT

New data modalities in meiofaunal phylogenomics

Application deadline: Tuesday 9 January 2024, 23:59 GMT

Discovery, species diversity, and utilisation of parasitoids using AI in a genomic framework

Application deadline: Tuesday 9 January 2024, 23:59 GMT

Into the dark: diversity and ecology of fungi and protists in the twilight zone of polar freshwaters environments

Application deadline: Tuesday 9 January 2024, 23:59 GMT

Meals on wheels: does physical structure influence community development and longevity in cryoconite?

Application deadline: Tuesday 9 January 2024, 23:59 GMT

E4 DTP Projects

Extinction and survival at the dawn of plant life on land

Application deadline: Thursday 4 January 2024, 12:00 GMT

SSCP DTP Projects

Marine ecosystem change in southwest UK during the Late Devonian mass extinction

Application deadline: 8 January 2024

Reconstructing vertebrate faunal dynamics in Central Asia through the last mass extinction

Application deadline: 8 January 2024

Detrital mineral records of magmatism and fertility in porphyry copper districts

Application deadline: 8 January 2024

Developing a chemical audit approach for characterisation of mine site material

Application deadline: 8 January 2024

INSPIRE DTP Projects

Analysing the evolution of form and function in sand dollars

Application deadline: 3 January 2024

Genomic causes and consequences of hybridisation in the British flora

Application deadline: 3 January 2024

Echinoderm resilience to past climate change and mass extinction

Application deadline: 3 January 2024

Spatial patterns of tipping points in global vegetation data

Application deadline: 3 January 2024

Comparing cryptobenthic fishes: from cool climates to coral reefs

Application deadline: 3 January 2024