A number of fully funded studentships in environmental sciences are available to UK and International students. The research projects below are in competition for the funding. The projects with the best applicants will be awarded the funding.

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• Application guidance 

Projects available at University of Warwick:

Principal Supervisors	Project
Dr Soroush Abolfathi (School of Engineering)	Environmental Digital Twins for Sustainable Water Management
Professor Robin Allaby (School of Life Sciences)	Conservation genetics of the Noble chaffer (Gnorimus nobilis)
Dr Mark Barrow (Department of Chemistry)	FTICRMS studies of OxyOils photo-chemical products interactions in oil - implications of how spills behave and what risk they pose to coastal-dwelling species
Dr Mark Barrow (Department of Chemistry)	Forever chemicals transfer, accumulation, and effects in urban estuaries
Professor Gary Bending (School of Life Sciences)	Urban eDNAscapes: mapping biodiversity using environmental DNA
Professor Gary Bending (School of Life Sciences)	The environmental persistence of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
Professor Adrian Chaplin (Department of Chemistry)	Hydrogenation of nitrous oxide using MOF catalysts
Professor Jose Gutierrez-Marcos (School of Life Sciences)	Conversion of annual to perennial growth in invasive plant species
Professor Georgy Koentges (School of Life Sciences)	Ventulicolians and the evolution of the early craniate head morphology in the Ediacaran, half a billion years ago
Dr Laura Lehtovirta-Morley (joining School of Life Sciences in September 2025)	Resolving missing links between nitrogen and carbon cycles: Impact of methylated amines on ammonia oxidising microorganisms
Professor Julie Macpherson (Department of Chemistry)	Development and field trial testing of low cost, high accuracy sensors to enable “Citizen Science” monitoring of UK river systems
Dr Michaela Mausz (School of Life Sciences)	Carbon fixation in a future ocean – Consequences of nitrogen limitation on lipid remodelling and the ecophysiology of marine phytoplankton
Dr Michaela Mausz (School of Life Sciences)	A new sulfolipid in bacteria-phytoplankton interactions
Dr Michaela Mausz (School of Life Sciences)	Physiological consequences of cyanobacterial lipid remodelling under changing ocean conditions
Dr Ryan Mushinski (School of Life Sciences)	Earth’s Hidden Radical Chemistry: Exploring Nitrous Acid’s Role in Soil
Dr Jonathan Pearson (School of Engineering)	Real time tracking & monitoring of microplastics in aquatic environments
Dr Richard Puxty (School of Life Sciences)	Floaters vs. sinkers: How do marine phytoplankton combat the biological pump?
Dr Richard Puxty (School of Life Sciences)	Understanding the genetic and physiological basis for photosynthesis in the Earth’s most abundant phototroph
Dr Mojgan Rabiey (School of Life Sciences)	Impact of climate change on bacteriophage and virome diversity
Professor Hendrik Schaefer (School of Life Sciences)	Dimethylsulfide degradation in anoxic environments
Professor Hendrik Schaefer (School of Life Sciences)	How do carbon monoxide degrading bacteria interact with plants?
Dr Ed Smith (School of Life Sciences)	Unravelling the genetic and environmental drivers of specificity in cnidarian-algal symbioses

Projects available at Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH):

Supervisors	Project
Dr Susheel Bhanu BusiLink opens in a new window (CEH), Dr Holly Tipper (CEH) and Professor Gary Bending (UoW, School of Life Sciences)	Tracking antimicrobial resistance across biomesLink opens in a new window

Eligibility

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Application guidance

• View the available projects and check your eligibility
• Make an initial project enquiry by contacting supervisors directly.
• Questions about the application process or eligibility can be directed to
• Complete the online application form - selecting course code P-C1PB (Life Sciences PhD); from here you will be taken through to another screen where you can select your desired project. Please enter "NERC studentship" in the Finance section and add Nikki Glover, as the scholarship contact. Please also complete the CENTA application form 2025Link opens in a new window and submit via email to .
• Upload a transcript from your current or previous study, a CV and any other documents that you feel would support your application (within 48 hours of submitting your online application you will receive a link allowing you to upload additional supporting documents).
• Ask your referees to submit a reference for you by 15 January 2025 at the latest. Note: when you submit your application, an email will automatically be sent to your referees requesting a reference for you. This email will contain a secure link for your referee to upload a reference for you.
• For further information about applying to Warwick see the application FAQ's page
• Application deadline - 8 January 2025 (23:59 GMT)