Deadline: 27 July 2022 I. Background Agricultural systems are increasingly expected to increase production to feed the growing world population, while lowering environmental impacts and coping with further stress from extreme weather events due to climate change. Within intensively managed agricultural grasslands, recent results demonstrate important yield advantages of four-species grass-legume swards compared to monocultures of either grasses or legumes. Our recent research shows additio
Deadline: 15 September 2022 The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of the Ministry of Science and Technology in India, and UNESCO-TWAS established a fellowship programme for foreign scholars from developing countries who wish to pursue research towards a PhD in biotechnology. I. Programme details TWAS-DBT Postgraduate Fellowships are tenable at key biotechnology research institutions in India for a period of up to five years. Applicants may be registered for a PhD degree in their ho
Deadline: 29 July 2022 Applications are invited for a PhD Walsh Scholarship Project focusing on Bacillus spore control during dairy processing. Spore forming bacteria in dairy processing are of particular concern due to their low tolerance of acceptability as both a safety and quality concern. Bacillus spores can potentially contaminate and survive in dairy products such as infant formula ingredients (lactose, and whey protein) causing issues including spore related toxin production. This
Deadline: Open Do you want to be part of a dynamic, young, world-class animal genetics, genomics and analytics group at Teagasc, the Irish cattle Breeding Federation and Cork Institute of Technology? Teagasc and Cork Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the Irish Cattle BreedingFederation (ICBF) are seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious student in the area of animal genomics in cattle. Research developed will be immediately implemented by the ICBF. Previous PhDs from thi
Deadline: 15 August 2022 Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 3-year PhD–position related to economically oriented but multidisciplinary analysis of the topic “Norwegian and the EU forests and forest sector in the sustainable circular bioeconomy”. Forestry and the forest-based sector in Norway and the EU are not immune to global challenges: demand for alternative uses of bioma
Deadline: 17 June 2022 Teagasc is offering a post-graduate opportunity in microbiology. The ‘No-2-Nitrates’ project (a collaboration between Teagasc, UCD and TU-Dublin) is funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. This project will develop novel reduced nitrate/nitrite and nitrate/nitrite free meat products including microbial testing and validation for f
Deadline: 15 August 202 The Government of the Republic of Mauritius is offering scholarships to deserving students who are resident citizens of member states of the African Union or of African Commonwealth countries for full-time, on-campus MPhil/PhD programmes tenable in public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Mauritius. I. Eligibility Criteria Candidates must be resident citizens of member states of the African Union or of African Commonwealth countries. Mauritian national
Deadline: 31 August 2022 The TWAS-COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) Fellowship Programme for postgraduate research is offering fellowships to young scientists from developing countries other than Pakistan, who wish to obtain all or part (sandwich or full-time) of their PhD in natural or social sciences. I. Programme details TWAS-CUI Postgraduate Fellowships are tenable in the departments and laboratories of the campuses of the COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI). NB: In 2018, CO
Deadline: 11 July 2022 The BEATLE project is looking for a motivated PhD student starting in September or October 2022 for the “development of an ecological-economic model for the analysis of biodiversity friendly land-use and food policy scenarios” in work package (WP) 3. The BEATLE aims to generate knowledge on how policy and society can achieve a transformation towards a biodiversity friendly land-use and food system. The PhD project will focus on WP3, in which ecolog
Deadline: 31 May 2022. Skogforsk in cooperation with Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre (SSFRC) is looking for PHD Candidates to join the breeding team to create a starting point for future forests. The aim of the PhD student position is a doctoral degree. In this 4-year project the student will primarily do research to improve an understanding of flowering and seed production in silver birch for an implementation in forest tree breeding and forestry practice. The PhD project includes es