Jobs:Job-01725

Fully funded PhDs at Loughborough University, UK

Loughborough University, , United Kingdom
Apply before: 8 January 2025

Posting: Position: PhD positions Apply before: 8 January 2025

It’s PhD application season in the UK once again. At Loughborough University, we are currently advertising four fully funded PhD projects across a range of earth surface processes, landscape evolution, and flooding topics. Please share these opportunities with any potential students who may be interested, and encourage them to reach out to the supervisory teams for discussions. The application deadline is 8th January 2025.

1. Dusty Rivers: quantifying fluvial flooding controls on aeolian activity. With Matthew Baddock, Edwin Baynes & Joanna Bullard.
   • Using remote sensing and possibly field observations to quantify flood activity in dust-bearing dryland fluvial systems and the degree to which rates of mineral dust vary in response to hydrological perturbations of these landscapes.
   • Funding through CENTA. Project webpage link here: https://centa.ac.uk/studentship/2025-lu2-dusty-rivers-quantifying-fluvial-flooding-controls-on-aeolian-activity/
2. Oceanic island insights into river-driven volcanic landscape evolution. With John Hillier, Edwin Baynes, Wolfgang Schwanghart (Uni. Potsdam), Ramon Casillas Ruiz (Uni. de la Laguna, Tenerife).
   • Using topographic analysis and numerical modelling to develop new insights into how bedrock incision processes interact with geological and climatic factors (i.e. spatially variable uplift, shield building, mega-landslides, orographic rainfall effects and extremes), using the volcanic island of Tenerife as a case study.
   • Funding through CENTA. Project webpage link here: https://centa.ac.uk/studentship/2025-lu4-oceanic-island-insights-into-river-driven-volcanic-landscape-evolution/
3. Geomorphic mitigation of contaminated mining sediment mobilization during floods. With Edwin Baynes, Mark Kincey (Uni. Newcastle) Jeff Warburton (Durham Uni.) & Tyne Rivers Trust.
   • Using field observations and geospatial data (topographic analysis & modelling) to explore the geomorphological processes of metal contaminant (re)mobilization during floods from upland river catchments across the north of England.
   • Funding through Flood-CDT. Project webpage link here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd-opportunities/geomorphic-mitigation/
4. Innovative geomorphic approaches to support better management of flood risk and ecosystem health. With Edwin Baynes, Richard Jeffries (Environment Agency), Helen Reid (SEPA)
   • Analysing and developing geospatial datasets to improve our understanding of how flood risk changes due to zones of increased channel adjustment.
   • Funding through Flood-CDT. Project webpage link here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd-opportunities/innovative-geomorphic-approaches/

These projects are all fully funded (fees, stipend, research training and support grant) through competitive funded studentship schemes (CENTA & Flood-CDT). They are open to both UK and International applicants. Please see the links for more information about the projects and the application process, and feel free to get in touch with the supervisor teams to discuss in more detail.

Best wishes,
Edwin

Dr Edwin Baynes
Geography and Environment, Loughborough University

e.baynes@lboro.ac.uk

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Of interest for:

Terrestrial Working Group

Hydrology Focus Research Group