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View PhD project opportunities by research area:

Environmental Health Sciences
Geosystems
Water Sciences
Society, Economy and Environment
Centre for Urban and Regional Studies

See a list of fully funded PhD projects.

Please note: the deadline for all PhD project applications is 31 January 2013.

Environmental Health Sciences

Anthropogenic perturbation of global cycles of soluble trace metals (PDF 21KB)
Are engineered nanoparticles still toxic when they get old? Novel approaches in the safety assessment of engineered nanoparticles: the effect of ageing
(PDF 47KB)
Atmospheric Behaviour of Ultrafine Particles Arising from Road Traffic (PDF 24KB)
Atmospheric Ozone Production (PDF 72KB)
Building the world’s longest record of surface solar radiation variability (dimming/brightening) (PDF 159KB)
Calculating Pollutant Lung Dose for Use in Health Exposure Studies (PDF 17KB)
Designing toxicity out of nanomaterials - Novel approaches in the safety assessment of engineered nanomaterials: safer designs (PDF 18KB)
Developing pH nanosensors for individual cloud droplets and aerosol particles
(PDF 138KB) - available from 1st October 2012
Environmental impact of stratospheric particle injection for geoengineering
(PDF 56KB)
IDENT: Identification without Separation: Novel approaches to the measurement of complex atmospheric VOC mixtures using soft chemical-ionisation mass spectrometry - drift-tube techniques (PDF 357KB)
Influence of urban greening on air quality: A computational study of the effect of trees on turbulent dispersion of air pollutants in a street canyon (PDF 88KB)
Investigation of Birmingham’s urban heat island using high-resolution numerical modelling (PDF 87KB)
Novel approaches to the measurement of atmospheric VOC mixtures (PDF 72KB)
Pollen and air pollution: Does pollen allergenicity increase via atmospheric chemical processing? (PDF 105KB)
Quantifying the influence of wind advection on urban heat island for an improvement of a climate change adaptation planning tool (PDF 176KB)
What spatial resolution do we need for an urban network of air temperature sensors? (PDF 30KB)

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Water Sciences

Society, Economy and Environment

Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS)

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PhD projects

Environmental Health Sciences

Geosystems

Water Sciences

Society, Economy and Environment

Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS)

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