NERC funded
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) allocates studentships to the University in proportion to the grants awarded. These studentships are run through the Institute for Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine , where most of the ecologically-related work is conducted. We typically advertise several studentships per year, but the projects selected for funding (two or three) will be based on which applicants are most competitive. Applicants may ask to be considered for more than one of the projects but it is only necessary to put in one application (interest in more than one project can be indicated on the cover letter). Some projects are CASE studentships, which means that the student would spend approximately 1/3 of their time with an industrial or NGO partner outside of the University (please see the NERC studentship handbook for details: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/application/studentships/).
These are 3-year PhD studentships and students should apply online here. In addition, please send a CV (including at least two referees) and a cover letter that includes a description of why you are interested in applying for the particular project you have selected, to Joyce Fyfe. Applicants are also encouraged to send informal enquiries to the project supervisors, whose contact details can be found with the project details.
The candidate must have been ordinarily resident in the UK throughout the 3-year period preceding the date of application for an award, not wholly or mainly for the purposes of full time education. Applicants should have received a grade of 2:1 (B) or equivalent in their undergraduate degree; applicants who do not meet this threshold but have completed other postgraduate training programmes might be considered. Please see the NERC studentship handbook for specific guidelines. The financial package will include a three-year stipend, approved University fees, Research Training Support Grant and a Conference Allowance.
Recent projects:
- How the salamander got his spots: the genetics of colour, shape, and local adaptation in European salamanders
Kathryn Elmer & Barbara Mable, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
Kathryn.elmer@glasgow.ac.uk
Project Details - How the salamander got his spots - Breeding in a contaminated world: do environmental pollutants promote mistiming of reproduction and limit the breeding success of farmland birds?
Barbara Helm, Michelle Bellingham, Maureen Bain, Neil Evans & Jane Robinson (Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Barbara.helm@glasgow.ac.uk
Project Details - Breeding in a contaminated world - Why are Seal and Seabird Colonies where they are?
Jason Matthiopoulos (Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow), with external collaborating inputs from Sarah Wanless and Francis Daunt (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology); Bernie McConnell and Debbie Russell, (University of St Andrews); and Keith Hamer (University of Leeds)
Jason.matthiopoulos@glasgow.ac.uk
Project Details - Why are Seal and Seabird Colonies where they are - Evolvability in the face of climate change: understanding developmental effects on bone and its ecological consequences
Supervisors - Kevin Parsons, Neil Metcalfe, Pat Monaghan
Project Details - Evolvability in the face of climate change - Applied evolution: an experimental approach to investigating how the interaction between parasite life history strategies and control measures affects rates of resistance evolution
Supervisor - Dr Barbara Mable
More information: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=36305&LID=559 - Causes and Consequences of Individual Variation in Aerobic Scope and its Association with Immune Response 27th January 2012
Supervisor – Dr Shaun Killen
More information: Killen - Immune Response - Do environmental conditions influence the viability of wild salmon through effects on oxidative stress and telomere dynamics? 27th January 2012
Supervisor – Prof Neil Metcalfe
More information: Metcalfe - Salmon - Tracking the seasons: tissue-based memory for avian moult? 27th January 2012
Supervisor – Dr Barbara Helm
More information: Helm - Tracking Seasons - Understanding diet choices in changing environments: optimisation modelling and experiments with free-living blue tits. 27th January 2012
Supervisor – Dr Ross MacLeod
More information: MacLeod - Blue Tits & MacLeod - Blue Tits - Further Info
Lord Kelvin / Adam Smith Scholarship funded
The Kelvin Smith PhD Scholarship scheme offers the opportunity for outstanding research students both from home and abroad to participate in some of the most exciting areas of research taking place at Glasgow whilst developing their research skills.
More information on this prestigious scholarship scheme.
- Invasions of the pharynx: microbiome of infected respiratory tissue
Closing date: 2 April 2012
Further Project Details - Lindstrom - Pharynx
BBSRC funded
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) UK Research Council.
- You are what you eat: Investigating the Interlinked Cycle of Relationships between Host Gut Microbiome, Immune System and Systemic Infection
Supervisors: Dr Annette MacLeod / Prof Paul Garside / Dr Gill Douce - Predicting the ecological determinants of the emergence of zoonotic malaria
Supervisor: Dr Heather Ferguson / Prof Rowland Kao - Effect of early stress on patterns of ageing and senescence in vertebrates
Supervisor: Prof Neil Metcalfe - Emerging Zoonotic Disease Risk in Informal Urban Settlements in Tanzania
Supervisors: Prof Sarah Cleaveland / Prof Joanne Sharp - Development of a novel, non-invasive tool to assess welfare in birds
Supervisors: Dr Ruedi Nager / Dr Dorothy McKeegan / Dominic Macaffert
Scottish Government funded
- The consequences of change in coastal environments to the sustainability of commercial fisheries
Closing date: 6th April 2012
Supervisor - Bailey
European Union funded
- The effects of Marine Protected Areas on animal populations, biodiversity and fisheries
Closing date: 6th April 2012
Supervisor - Bailey - Seabirds as monitors of the intertidal habitat
Closing date: 6th April 2012
Supervisor - Nager - Life history strategies in the sea-trout Salmo trutta
Closing date: 14th April 2012
Supervisors - Adams & Boylan - The effect of small scale in-stream hydro-schemes on the riverine fishes
Closing date: 14th April 2012
Supervisors - Adams & Boylan - The ecology underpinning conservation management of rare freshwater fishes
Closing date: 14th April 2012
Supervisors - Adams & Boylan
Medical Research Council funded
- Emerging Zoonotic Disease Risk in Informal Urban Settlements in Tanzania. Application deadline: 27th January 2012
Email - Sarah.Cleaveland@glasgow.ac.uk
More information (Find a PhD) - Predicting the ecological determinants of the emergence of zoonotic malaria. Application deadline: 27th January 2012
Email - Heather.Ferguson@glasgow.ac.uk
More information (Find a PhD) - You are what you eat: Investigating the Interlinked Cycle of Relationships between Host Gut Microbiome, Immune System and Systemic Infection. Application deadline: 27th January 2012
Email - Annette.MacLeod@glasgow.ac.uk
Other funded
- Dissecting out the mechanism that leads to longevity through eating less. Application deadline: 30th April 2013. Institute of biodiversity, animal health and comparative medicine & School of mathematics and statistics
Supervisor - Prof. Colin Selman
More information (Find a PhD) - Testing evolutionary potential, and genetic divergence in threatened populations of Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) Application deadline: 31st July 2013
Institute of biodiversity, animal health and comparative medicine & School of mathematics and statistics
Supervisors: Dr Kevin Parsons & Prof. Colin Adams
More information (Find a PhD) - Universal laws of mass migration: From cancer cells to wildebeest. Application deadline: Applications accepted all year round. Institute of biodiversity, animal health and comparative medicine & School of mathematics and statistics
Supervisors: Prof Jason Matthiopoulos, Prof Dirk Husmeier, Prof Robert Insall, Dr Grant Hopcraft
More information (Find a PhD) - How has gadoid biomass in the Clyde Sea been sustained. Application deadline:14th June 2013
Institute of biodiversity, animal health and comparative medicine & School of mathematics and statistics
Supervisor - Dr David Bailey
More information (Find a PhD)