Soil and environment

PhD Studentship in Agricultural & Environmental Sciences: Applications now open

Starting on October 1 2021, the studentship is funded for 36 months including a stipend of £15,285 per year and tuition fees. Application closing date 26 March 2021.

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Explore our research groups and centres

Agricultural and environmental systems analysis

Using modelling and survey approaches to improve our understanding of agri-environmental systems and to assess the effects of controllable and uncontrollable factors.

Agricultural and environmental systems analysis

Applied and behavioural ecology

Research covering wide range of topics in applied ecology, especially the evolution of behavioural strategies in many organisms, from microbes to insects to eagles

Applied and Behavioural Ecology

Biogeochemistry and biogeochemical modelling

Unravelling and understanding chemical cycling in the environment.

Biogeochemistry and biogeochemical modelling

Environmental change

Research into this diverse theme spans a variety of topics and different geographical locations, and seeks to reconstruct changes in key environmental parameters through geological time.

Environmental change