The Department of Geography and Scott Polar Research Institute are pleased to be active and successful participants in the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Cambridge Climate, Life and Earth (C-CLEAR) Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)
Prospective students who wish to apply for an advertised project are asked to browse the DTP webpages and identify the project or projects that they wish to apply for.
The DTP has divided all its PhD projects into three themes. Members of the Department of Geography and SPRI have projects advertised in all three themes.
From the DTP webpages, you can search: 1) by broad theme (Climate Change and Environmental Processes, Biology and Conservation or Solid Earth and Geological Hazards); 2) by staff member/department (Staff Directory); or 3) by searching for keyword (e.g. ‘Geography’ or ‘Antarctica’).
To help you, we provide links to all the PhD topics involving Geography/SPRI supervisors below.
You may also choose your own topic that relates to the research interests of any member of the Physical Geography/SPRI staff, and that may also be suitable and eligible for funding by the DTP.
Further information on the application process is provided via the DTP webpages, the Geography Department webpages and the University Postgraduate Admissions pages. The deadline to be considered for DTP funding at the home fees rate will be in early January 2023, which includes references. International students wishing to be considered for DP funding are strongly encouraged to apply by the earlier deadline of 1 December 2022 in order to be considered not only for all other sources of funding, but also funding to cover the difference between the home and international fees rate.
PhD topic listings
- BC421: Taking plant growth models to a new level through integration with innovative experiments on trees (Lead Supervisor: Andrew D. Friend, Geography)
- BC422: In the balance: global ecology and terrestrial carbon (Lead Supervisor: Andrew D. Friend, Geography)
- BC423: How the tree got its rings (Lead Supervisor: Andrew D. Friend, Geography)
- BC410: Structural dynamics of European forests using high resolution remote sensing data (Lead Supervisor: Emily R. Lines, Geography)
- CE401: *Priority CASE Project* Gas ash-particle separation and the role of particle aggregation in volcanic plumes (Lead Supervisor: Michael Herzog, Geography)
- CE414: Reconstructing the coupled Greenland Ice Sheet–climate evolution during the Last Interglacial warm period (Lead Supervisor: Matthew Osman, Geography)
- CE416: Improving reconstructions of global volcanism and solar activity with machine learning (Lead Supervisor: Francesco Muschitiello, Geography)
- CE417: Constructing regional 14C calibration curves throughout the glacial oceans (Lead Supervisor: Francesco Muschitiello, Geography)
- CE418: Using the Sun’s ‘heartbeat’ to measure time in the oceans – A new geochronometer for deep-sea sediment records (Lead Supervisor: Francesco Muschitiello, Geography)
- SE424: Tephra connections between environmental change and human prehistory in Ethiopia (Lead Supervisor: Christine Lane, Geography)
- BC435: Advancing beyond the treeline: new ways of understanding Alpine vegetation dynamics in the Anthropocene (Lead Supervisor: Ulf Buentgen, Geography)
- CE426: Modelling Melt, Refreezing and Flow of Water on Antarctic Ice Shelves (Lead Supervisor: Neil Arnold, Scott Polar Research Institute)
- CE427: Water flow and bed evolution beneath ice sheets during deglaciation (Lead Supervisor: Neil Arnold, Scott Polar Research Institute)
- CE403: What are the atmospheric drivers of melt on George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctica? (Lead Supervisor: Ian Willis, Scott Polar Research Institute)