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Past PhD Studentships
The following topics were funded in 2011
The rise and erosion of the Canadian Rocky Mountains: its relation to modern topography, north American Climate and northern hemisphere glaciations
Professor Randall Parrish (University of Leicester); Dr Andy Carter (Birkbeck College) and Dr Fin Stuart (SUERC University of Glasgow)
Department/College of Science and Engineering/NIGL
Mountain Building Processes in the Tibetan Foreland: The Precambrian-Recent Evolution of the Dunhuang Block, NW China
Dr Dickson Cunningham and Dr Richard England (University of Leicester)
FULLY FUNDED NERC STUDENTSHIP
The following topics were funded in 2010
The nature and origin of PGE mineralisation in the Rooipoort area, northern Bushveld Complex, South Africa
Dr Dave Holwell (University of Leicester); Dr Iain McDonald (Cardiff University); Dr Trevor Pearton (Caledonia Mining)
Active and ancient geothermal systems in Tethyan ophiolites as examples of novel solutions for natural CO2 sequestration
Dr Gawen Jenkin (University of Leicester), Dr Jon Naden, Dr Mike Styles (British Geological Survey) and Dr Adrian Boyce (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre)
FULLY FUNDED NERC CASE Studentship with the British Geological Survey
A molluscan record of Late Cenozoic climate change and palaeoseasonality from South America
Dr Mark Williams and Dr Jan Zalasiewicz (University of Leicester); Harry Dowsett and Marci Robinson (United States Geological Survey); Melanie Leng and Mike Ellis (British Geological Survey)
FULLY FUNDED PHD PROJECT
Development of a genetic model for targeting gold mineralisation in the Scottish Dalradian
Dr Gawen Jenkin and Dr Dave Holwell (University of Leicester); Mr Dave Catterall (Scotgold Resources); Dr Adrian Boyce, Dr Darren Mark (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre); Dr Jon Naden, Mr Gus Gunn (British Geological Survey); Dr Clive Rice (University of Aberdeen)
Open CASE Award studentship - FULLY FUNDED BY NERC
Exceptional preservation of a Silurian Biota - taphonomy and palaeobiology of the Eramosa Lagerstätte
Dr Mark Purnell and Dr Sarah Gabbott (University of Leicester), Dr Peter von Bitter (Royal Ontario Museum, Canada)
Seismic structure of the upper mantle beneath the Atlantic Ocean: Implications for the lithosphere-asthenosphere system
Dr Stewart Fishwick and Dr Richard England (University of Leicester); Dr Nicky White (University of Cambridge)
The influence of mineralogy, geochemistry and sedimentology on petrophysical properties in fine-grained successions
Professor Mike Lovell and Dr Sarah Davies (University of Leicester), Dr Tim Pritchard (BG-group, Reading)
Use of regolith geochemsitry to delineate potential gold targets in savana regions of Ghana
Dr Gawen Jenkin and Dr Dickson Cunningham (Department of Geology)
Investigating generic methodologies for combining techical natural hazards models with social infrastructure datasets to generate a multi-hazard risk and impact product for the SW Pacific region of Papua New Guinea using models and data feeds from Met Office
Professor Mike Petterson (Department of Geology) and Mr Ken Mylne (Met Office)
Identifying magmatic and structural links to Cu-Au mineralization in northern Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (MPhil Project)
Professor Mike Petterson (Department of Geology)
The following topics were funded in 2009
Ash dispersal from igimbrite-forming super-eruptions in the central Snake River Plain, Yellowstone hot-spot, USA
Dr Mike Branney and Dr Marc Reichow (University of Leicester), Dr Mike McCurry (Idaho State University), Dr Barbara Nash and Dr Michael Perkins (University of Utah)
Magmatic, structural and tectonic controls on Cu-Au mineralization in the Solomon Islands arc, SW Pacific
Professors Michael G. Petterson and Andrew D. Saunders and Dr Gawen Jenkin (University of Leicester), Dr Jon Naden, Dr Dan J. Smith and Dr. Gus Gunn (British Geological Survey)
Petroacoustic Modelling of Heterogenous Sandstone Reservoirs
Professor Mike Lovell and Dr Sarah Davies (University of Leicester), Dr Tim Pritchard and Mr Robert Webber (BG-group, Reading) BG funded PhD studentship
Electrical resistivity measurements in coal: assessment of coal-bed methane content, reserves and coal permability
Professor Mike Lovell and Dr Sarah Davies (University of Leicester), Mr Roger Samworth (Weatherford)
This studentship is fully funded by Weatherford (UK)
Primary biological controls on UK lower Namurian shale gas prospectivity: understanding a major potential UK gas resource
Dr Sarah Davies (Unversity of Leicester - UoL); Dr M. J. Stephenson (British Geological Survey), Professor M. Leng (NERC Isotopes Geoscience Laboratory), Dr L. Angiolini (Università degli Studi di Milano), Dr Sarah Gabbott (UoL), Dr J.H.S. Macquaker (Memorial University Newfoundland), Dr C. Vane (BGS), Dr D. Millward (BGS) and Dr I. Kane (University of Leeds)
Funded Studentship (BGS University Funding Initiative with the University of Leicester)
Gravel hosted mineral deposits - Spatical distribution of gravel hosted mineral deposits based on international examples
Dr Kip Jeffrey and Professor Mike Petterson (Unversity of Leicester)
Geological origins of sugar loaf peaks in eastern Brazil and their environmental importance as refugia for Atlantic rain forest biodiversity
Dr Dickson Cunningham (Department of Geology - UoL), Dr Kevin Tansey and Dr Juan-Carlos Berrio (Department of Geography - UoL)
Isotopic ages for the late Eocene - early Oligocene: insights into the greenhouse-icehouse transition
Dr Mark Williams and Professor Randall Parrish (Department of Geology)
Explosive evolution of a peralkaline caldera volcano: Pantelleria, Italy
Dr Mike Branney and Dr Mike Norry (Department of Geography)
The following topics were funded in 2008
3D quantitative interpretation of archaeomganetic surveys: application of mathematical modelling to determine depths and physical characteristics of buried materials
Dr. Ian Hill (University of Leicester) and Chris Leech (Geomatrix Earth Science Ltd.) CASE Studentship
The micropalaeontology and geological provenance of Roman mosaics
Dr. Mark Williams and Professor David Siveter (University of Leicester), Professor M. Fulford and Dr. S. Cook (University of Reading) and Dr. I. P. Wilkinson (British Geological Survey) Self funded
The evolution and macroecological consequences of grazing and shellcrushing in fishes
Dr. Mark Purnell and Professor Paul Hart (University of Leicester) and Dr. Zerina Johanson (Natural History Museum, London) Self funded
Controls on the temporal and spatial distribution of organic matter in siliciclastic mudstones: implication for source rock development in shale gas plays
Dr. Sarah Davies and Professor Mike Lovell (University of Leicester), Dr. J. H. S. Macquaker (University of Manchester) and K. M. Bohacs (Exxon Mobil) CASE Studentship
Ostracod faunal response to global climate change during the Late Ordovician and Early Silurian
Dr. Mark Williams and Professor David Siveter (University of Leicester) University of Balochistan/Department of Geology
The following topics were funded in 2007
Explosive piecemeal-type calderas: eruption behaviour, periodicity, and volcanic structure at Los Humeros volcano, Central Mexican Volcanic Belt
Dr. Mike Branney, Dr. Mike Norry (University of Leicester) and Professor Gerardo Carrasco (U.N.A.M., Mexico) NERC funded
Application of airborne LiDAR to fault mapping, structural analysis, and idenitification of fracture controlled mineralisation, Slovenia and Cyprus
Dr. Dickson Cunningham,and Dr. Kevin Tansey (University of Leicester) in collaboration with Jon Naden (BGS) NERC funded
The Palaeocene-Ecocene thermal maximum (PETM) in the clastic sequences of the Kohat Basin, northern Pakistan: a low latitude, Tethyan view of the fastest global warming in recent Earth history
Dr. Jan Zalasiewicz and Dr. Mark Williams (University of Leicester) NCEG University of Peshawar/BGS/University of Leicester
Preservation and taphonomy of the fossils of the Herefordshire (Silurian) Konservat-Lagerstätte
Dr. Sarah Gabbott and Professor David Siveter (University of Leicester) with Dr. D. Siveter (Oxford) and Professor D. Briggs (Yale) and Dr. M. Sutton (Imperial College, London) Self funded
Integrating Static and Dynamic Data in Petrophysics
Professor Mike Lovell (University of Leicester) Self funding
The following topics were funded in 2006
Catastrophic emplacement of hot volcanic density currents over irregular topography, Pantelleria, Italy
Dr. Mike Branney, Dr. Mike Norry (University of Leicester) and Dr. Tiffany Barry (Open University) NERC funded
Mesoproterozoic crustal evolution in southwest Norway
Dr. Tim Brewer, Professor Peter Harvey (University of Leicester), Dr. Morgens Marker (NGU) and Professor Randy Parrish (NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory) NERC funded
Modelling Marine Gas Hydrate Dissociation and Sediment Stability
Professor Mike Lovell, Dr. Jeremy Levesley (University of Leicester), Dr. Peter Jackson, Dr. David Noy (BGS) NERC special project
The Holocene Palaeoenvironmental Change in the Fenland of Eastern England
Dr. Jan Zalasiewicz (University of Leicester) Self funding
The following topics were funded in 2005
Joint British Geological Survey/University of Leicester PhD - Characterization of stratigraphy and palaeoceanography using graptolites: exploring new concepts
Dr. Jan Zalasiewicz, (University of Leicester), Drs. J. Aspden, M.P.A. Howe, P. Wilby, D. I. Schofield (BGS, Keyworth, Nottingham)
Global ocean Oxygenation through geological time from selenium isotopes
Dr. Gawen Jenkin (University of Leicester), Rob M. Ellam (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Glasgow), Tom M. Johnson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA) Research Grant
Lower Carboniferous ostracods and isotopes of the Midland Valley, Scotland: testing for the ecological shift into non-marine environments
Professor David Siveter (University of Leicester); Dr Maxine Akhurst (BGS Edinburgh), Professor Melanie Leng, Drs. Michael Stephenson and Ian Wilkinson (BGS Keyworth); and Dr. Giles Miller (Natural History Museum, London) CASE Studentship with BGS
The following topics were funded in 2004
Physical volcanology of explosive super-eruptions in the Snake River region of Idaho, USA.
Dr. Mike Branney (University of Leicester) and B Bonnichsen (Idaho State Geological Survey) NERC funded
Understanding Active and Fossil Magmatic-Hydrothermal Mineralising Processes within an Emergent Volcano (Savo, Solomon Islands)
Professor Andy Saunders, Dr. Gawen Jenkin (University of Leicester) and M. G. Petterson, J. Naden (BGS, Keyworth, Nottingham) and D. Tolia, C. Qopoto (Mines and Minerals Division, Honiara, Solomon Islands) NERC CASE
Active deformation in intracontinental transpressional basins in Mongolia determined from earthquake data.
Professor Peter Maguire, Dr. Richard England, Dr. Dickson Cunningham (University of Leicester) Fully Funded NERC PhD Project
The geometry and evolution of fluid flow systems forming volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) deposits - the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus
Dr. J Naden (BGS, Keyworth), Dr. Gawen Jenkin, Dr. Laurence Coogan (University of Leicester) Departmental/BGS Contract
The following topics were funded in 2003
Enigmatic fossils from the Upper Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstatte, South Africa
Professor Richard Aldridge and Dr. Sarah Gabbott (University of Leicester). NERC funded
The structural geology of the Nemegt Range, Mongolia: Implications for the development of hydrocarbon traps adjacent to restraining bends and within transpressionally inverted rift basins
Dr. Dickson Cunningham (University of Leicester) NERC CASE Award
Taphonomy and diagenesis of graptolites
Dr. Jan Zalasiewicz (University of Leicester) Leicester Geologists Alumni Society (LGAS) studentship
Effects of sediment characteristics, temperature and pressure on CO2 flux and hydrate formation in near surface ocean sediments
Professor Mike Lovell (University of Leicester) NERC funded
