Category Archives: PhD studentships

Do you want to use dietary DNA metabarcoding, micro-scale nutritional analysis, ecological field surveys and cutting-edge network inference and analysis methods to enhance our ability to predict the trophic interactions and ecosystem services of omnivorous ground beetles? Then check out this PhD opportunity! Applications are open for this NERC-funded PhD studentship (competition funded, so twoContinueContinue reading “PHD STUDENTSHIP: Integrating molecular dietary analysis, nutritional ecology and network inference to assess ecosystem service trade-offs in omnivorous beetles”

Applications are open for a NERC funded PhD studentship (competition funded, so two rounds of selection, the second with the funder) on network inference, the nutritional and trophic ecology of ground beetles, and their provision of ecosystem services. This PhD will involve joining our (the Foraging Ecology Research Group) lively and growing group of PhD students hereContinueContinue reading “PHD STUDENTSHIP: Assessing ecosystem service trade-offs in omnivorous generalist beetles using network inference, molecular dietary analysis and nutritional networks”

Are you interested in using cutting edge techniques to unravel the complex belowground interactions of agricultural invertebrates? This PhD project involves constructing belowground food webs using DNA-based methods, ecoacoustics and emerging statistical approaches. Apply now! Soil health depends on complex invertebrate food webs which drive ecosystem processes and ultimately crop yields, but studying these crypticContinueContinue reading “PHD STUDENTSHIP: Building belowground invertebrate trophic networks for soil health monitoring using metagenomics and ecoacoustics”

Applications are open for a NERC funded PhD studentship (competition funded, so two rounds of selection, the second with the funder) on the response of trophic networks to artificial light based with us (the Foraging Ecology Research Group) here in Newcastle! Join a brilliant supervisory team with experience spanning foraging ecology, molecular ecology and networkContinueContinue reading “PHD STUDENTSHIP: The impact of artificial light at night on optimal foraging, trophic networks and ecosystem services”

We have a fully funded PhD studentship (no competition funding interviews – just one round of selection) on predator-plant interactions based with us (the Foraging Ecology Research Group) here in Newcastle! Join a brilliant supervisory team with experience spanning molecular ecology, trophic interactions, network ecology and animal behaviour, comprised of Jordan Cuff, Fredric Windsor (CardiffContinueContinue reading “PHD STUDENTSHIP: Rustling up something to eat: investigating predator-plant interactions as indirect drivers of ecosystem services”