Research Degrees

Environmental engineering

The Environmental Engineering group has a PhD studentship for one of the following PhD projects. If you wish to apply follow the instructions in the individual project. The deadline for applications is 30 April 2013.

CI-623 EPSRC studentship in Civil Engineering – The ecology of putative estrogen degraders in the aqueous environment

CI-624 EPSRC studentship in Civil Engineering – Engineering sustainable micropollutant removal technologies

CI-625 EPSRC studentship in Civil Engineering – Using chemical structure and inocula characteristics to predictively model biodegradation rates

CI-626 EPSRC studentship in Civil Engineering – Rational identification and evaluation of priority chemicals

Mining wastes and waters as sources of sediment contamination across Europe: A technical and policy evaluation of current trends and future directions
Assessing the effect of biochars on microbiological processes in petroleum polluted soils
Novel technologies for reducing energy by treatment of recycle liquors in waste water treatment plants
Antibiotic resistance in the environment due to heavy metal and other pollutant releases

Ecology of microbial greenhouse house suppression in terrestrial ecosystems

Planning and implementation of wastewater collection, treatment and re-use solutions in peri-urban areas
Reducing siloxanes in the biogas of anaerobic digesters by two-stage multi-thermal digestion

Renewable Energy – Optimising methane production from the co-digestion of municipal waste and macroalgae (seaweed)

Sorting out the mess: How do soil microbial communities degrade complex organic pollutant mixtures?

Recovering value from water industry by-products and waste streams

Novel approaches for characterising sources, pathways and fate mechanisms that affect colour levels in catchments and lakes

EPSRC studentship in Potential bioenergy from rice straw for emerging and developing countries