The School offers postgraduate research opportunities leading to PhD degrees across the whole range of its research activities|, with funding coming from a variety of sources, including national research councils, internal scholarships and industry.
Postgraduate students joining the School benefit from a thriving research community, expert supervision, dedicated training programmes and the opportunity to participate in research seminars and discussions with academic staff. All postgraduate students are provided with dedicated workspaces and have access to excellent computing and laboratory facilities.
We offer the following research programmes:
PhD Research projects
The School has access to a number of NERC PhD studentships (at Home and EU fee level) to offer for Doctoral Researchers beginning their PhD research in the academic year 2012/13 in the Environmental Health Sciences|, Geosystems| and Water Sciences| research groups. Projects which will be considered for funding are listed below, with a closing date for applications of the end of January 2012. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in February 2012, to begin PhD research in Autumn 2012.
The School also intends to put forward candidates for PhD funding to Birmingham’s Doctoral Training Centres for AHRC| and ESRC|, and candidates applying for projects advertised under Society, Economy and Environment| and Centre for Urban and Regional Studies| will be considered for these internal funding opportunities, based on eligibility.
Application Process
Please apply online| via the University’s admissions system. Applicants will need to fill out an application form, send academic transcripts, and arrange for two academic references to be sent to support their applications. Research proposals may also be required for specific projects – please see individual project descriptions|. The deadline for applications is the end of January 2012.
Please note that only completed applications (i.e. where all supporting documentation, including references, has been received by the deadline) will be considered.
During the online application process, candidates will be allocated an ID number. This number must be emailed to the Postgraduate Secretary Mrs Gretchel Coldicott| before the deadline, in order for applications to be retrieved from the online system.