Applicants are welcome to propose their own projects or apply to funded or self funded opportunities.
We are able to provide admin and supervisor support to self funding applicants in pursuit of funding from other funding bodies. Recent self funding applicants have received funding from the Perry Foundation, British Commonwealth Scholarship and China Scholarship Council.
The following are a few examples of projects undertaken by our students.
Interleaving and acceptability: Using community-scale examples to influence wider energy practices. Funding: UK Energy research Centre.
More 'crop per drop': Aerial remote sensing for precision irrigation management in UK potato production. Funding: Perry Foundation.
Investigating the potential for ecosystem restoration to create stable ecosystems which deliver effective carbon sequestration. Funding: Faculty Studentship.
Plant-soil microbial interactions and ecosystem service provision in mountain grasslands. Funding: NERC.
Effective Modelling Framework for Environmental and Risk Management of Nanotechnologies. Funding; EPSRC CASE (The Reach Centre).
Designing an integrative aquatic monitoring system. Funding: NERC/ESRC Biogeochemical processes to mitigate diffuse water pollution transport from agricultural soils. Funding: DEFRA.
How natural and anthropogenic disturbances perturb inter-species relationships in tropical forest communities. Funding: University Studentship.
The impact of land use changes on the transmission of enteropathogens between farmland birds and livestock. Funding: BBSRC.
Environmental change and crop production. Funding: China Scholarship Council and The Lancaster Environment Centrel.
Bioremediation of contaminated Land. Funding: British Commonwealth Scholarship.
