Natural Environment - Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering

We offer fully funded PhD opportunities through:

cohort training via our Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs)
individual Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) awards
industrial funded awards

ONE Planet Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

ONE Planet offers a cohort-based doctoral training partnership across both Newcastle and Northumbria Universities.

Our internationally-recognised research excellence spans the NERC science remit, including:

Climate and Climate Change
Earth System Processes
Anthropocene
Environmental Informatics

These awards include: Full home fees and an annual living allowance and a Research Training award fund.

Applications for September 2021 are open. Deadline 18th January 2021

Visit our ONE Planet research pages to find out more.

A list of PhD research projects can be found here.

IAPETUS2 Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

The IAPETUS2 partnership joins the leading research universities of Durham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Herriot Watt, St Andrews and Stirling, together with the British Geological Survey and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, in a united approach to doctoral research and training the next generation of leaders in the science of the natural environment.

IAPETUS2’s training and research is focused around a number of interdisciplinary clusters of internationally-recognised excellence, which spans the environmental and Earth sciences:

Global environmental change
Geodynamics and Earth resources
Carbon and nutrient cycling
Hazards, risks and resilience
Biodiversity and ecosystem resources

Further information can be found here

Applications for 2021 are open. Deadline 8th January 2021

To apply for an IAPETUS2 project offered by Newcastle University you need to:

Apply through Newcastle’s Online Postgraduate System
insert the programme code in the programme of study section
insert the studentship code IAPETUS2 project code (without any spaces, hyphens and 2 e.g. IAP20137) (see individual projects) in the studentship/partnership reference field
attach a CV.
attach a covering letter written by the prospective student, no greater than 2 sides in length, detailing their reasons for applying and why they have selected the project that they wish to conduct.
Two (or more) references, avoiding any references from any members of the supervisory team that are part of the research project that they wish to conduct.
Full transcripts of previous qualifications obtained to date and, if English is not your first language, a copy of your English language qualifications.

Prospective students also need to complete the online IAPETUS form available here

Newcastle's Available Projects

IAP19118	Dr Andrew Henderson	Testing late Miocene global climate cooling and expansion of modern ecosystems: a palaeoceanographic perspective from the margin of East Asia
IAP19119	Dr Andrew Henderson	Controls on the hydro-geomorphological impact of the 2017 El Nino Costero floods, northern Peru
IAP19138	Dr Sadegh Nadimi	How soil characteristics affect the efficiency of energy geostructures?
IAP20128	Dr Ben Wigham	Trophic structure and isotopic turnover rates of Antarctic benthic marine invertebrates: assessing temporal variability in benthic food webs and the response of cold-adapted species to dietary change.
IAP20129	Dr Chris Hackney	Isolating the key scales of river bank roughness as drivers of erosion through high-resolution monitoring and modelling
IAP20130	Dr Agostino Walter Bruno	Assessing and Improving the Resilience of infrastructure Earthworks subjected to extreme rainfall: an advanced Unsaturated Soil mechanics perspective (AIREUS)
IAP20131	Dr Maarten van Hardenbroek	Climate Reconstructions in Central Siberia using chironomids and stable isotopes
IAP20132	Dr Aileen Mill	Predicting future invasion impacts: Indicators and models to measure success in “bending the curve” of species accumulation.
IAP20133	Dr Maarten van Hardenbroek	Understanding how wetland species became rare or locally extinct using sedimentary DNA and stable isotopes – supporting future ecological restoration by uncovering the past.
IAP20134	Dr Zarah Pattison	Biological invasions in ancient woodlands
IAP20135	Dr Mark Shirley	Invasion pathways of aquatic invasive non-native species using the canal network
IAP20136	Dr Louise Callard	Developing process-based models for the sediment and landform signature of glacilacustrine systems
IAP20137	Dr Evelyn Jensen	Ancient introgression and recent hybridization as evolutionary processes in the Galapagos giant tortoises
IAP20138	Dr Nick Cutler	The ecological impact of volcanic ash (tephra) deposition
IAP20139	Dr William Reid	Understanding the functional relationship between krill, the krill fishery and demersal sub-Antarctic fish populations
IAP20140	Professor Per Berggren	Project Title: An interdisciplinary approach to conservation of Irrawaddy dolphin, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin and Indo-Pacific finless porpoise in Cambodia
IAP20141	Dr Jon Telling	Glaciers and ice sheets: (Bio)mechanochemical nutrient bioreactors for the oceans
IAP20142	Dr Andrew Henderson	Reconstructing Holocene climate change in the tropical Andes
IAP20143	Stefano Utili	DO SLOPES HAVE A FAVORITE SHAPE? Innovative slope profiles for remediation of landslides and the extractive industry
IAP20179	Dr Cees van der Land	Geothermal energy from deep carbonate rock aquifers
IAP20196	Gary Caldwell	Macroalgae and microbial ecology in assessing nitrogen pollution of coastal regions

These project are lead by either BAS, BGS and UKCEH, but prospective applicants should apply to the partner organization of the second supervisor (the awarding organization) then email the relevant information to the project primary supervisor. These are parnter projects at Newcastle

IAP20029

Professor Lloyd Peck - British Antarctic Survey

Professor Tony Clare - Newcastle University

Future Biofouling and anti-biofouling strategies

IAP20030

Professor Melody Clark - British Antarctic Survey

Dr Ben Wigham - Newcastle University

A call to ARMS: Monitoring polar biodiversity

IAP20183

Prof. Jonathan Chambers - British Geological Survey

Prof. Stephanie Glendinning - Newcastle University

New geophysical approaches for the gotechnical assessment of safety critical infrastructure slope ability

Other Programmes

We are also partners in:

NERC DREAM - Data, Risk and Environmental Analytical Methods
NERC IAPETUS - North East England and Scotland’s multidisciplinary Doctoral Training Partnership for the environmental sciences

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