Studentships Available for 2012

We have full funding for a minimum of four PhD Studentships in 2012

Scroll through this page for a full listing of all research studentship topics offered for 2012. Alternatively browse those on offer in the Crustal Processes, Geophysics & Borehole, and Palaeobiology Groups.

The genesis of low temperature, mudrock-hosted monazite - a potential economic resource of rare earth elements (Ref: GL.12.1)

Dr Jan Zalasiewicz and Mr Kip Jeffrey (University of Leicester); Dr Tony Milodowski and Dr Phil Wilby (British Geological Survey) and Dr Jane Evans (BGS/NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory)

Determining lithospheric anisotropy from joint inversion of magnetotelluric, surface wave and receiver function data (Ref: GL.12.2)

Dr Max Moorkamp and Dr Stewart Fishwick (University of Leicester)

ONE OF PROJECTS GL.12.2 OR GL.12.11 WILL ATTRACT FULL FUNDING

Investigating Early Palaeozoic mantle processes: a study of Rheic Ocean ophiolites (Ref: GL.12.3)

Dr Tiffany Barry, Dr Jan Zalasiewicz and Professor Andy Saunders (University of Leicester); Professor Brendan Murphy (St Francis Xavier University, Canada)

Equatorial sea surface temperature seasonality in the Mississippian (Carboniferous) derived from brachiopod shell carbonate (Ref: GL.12.4)

Professor Melanie Leng and Dr Sarah Davies (University of Leicester); in association with Professor Mike Stephenson (British Geological Survey); Professor Lucia Angiolini (University of Milano)

Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) using stable isotopes (Ref: GL.12.5)

Professor Melanie Leng and Professor Randall Parrish and (University of Leicester); Dr Bernd Wagner (University of Cologne)

THIS PROJECT HAS FULL FUNDING

The behaviour of platinum-group elements within fractionating magmatic sulfide liquids: evidence from 3D textural and mineralogical characteristics (Ref: GL.12.6)

Dr Dave Holwell and Dr Gawen Jenkin (University of Leicester)

Chronic lead and uranium pollution and its fate in urban soils: Human exposure, biomarker development, and environmental legacy (Ref: GL.12.7)

Professor Randall Parrish and Professor Andy Saunders (University of Leicester)

Refining the tectonic history of the Eastern Himalaya in Bhutan/Aranachal Pradesh (Ref: GL.12.8)

Professor Randall Parrish and Professor Mike Petterson (University of Leicester)

Evolutionary and environmental controls on graptolite morphology (Ref: GL.12.9)

Dr Jan Zalasiewicz and Dr Mark Williams (University of Leicester); Dr Mike Howe (British Geological Survey)

Neotectonics of the UK: linking crustal deformation and surface evolution (Ref: GL.12.10)

Dr Richard England and Dr Jan Zalasiewicz and Dr Dickson Cunningham(University of Leicester)

Neogene uplift of Scandinavia: a seismic study of the crust (Ref: GL.12.11)

Dr Richard England, Dr Max Moorkamp and Dr Alex Brisbourne (University of Leicester)

ONE OF PROJECTS GL.12.2 OR GL.12.11 WILL ATTRACT FULL FUNDING

Variations in temperature, melt and composition beneath the African continent: combining studies of seismic attenuation and seismic wavespeed (Ref: GL.12.12)

Dr Stewart Fishwick and Dr Richard England (University of Leicester)

Dating of hominin-bearing cave sequences in South Africa using uranium-lead methodologies (Ref: GL.12.13)

Professor Randall Parrish and Professor Melanie Leng (University of Leicester); Dr Philip Hopley (Birkbeck College London; University College London) and Dr Colin Menter (University of Johannesburg)

Hot explosive volcanoes: structural analysis of ductile deformation of ignimbrites over topography at Pantelleria (Italy) and Yellowstone hot-spot (USA) (GL: 12.14)

Dr Mike Branney and Dr Dickson Cunningham (University of Leicester)

Ash plumes and density currents from large explosive volcanic eruptions: exploring the behaviour of fine volcanic ash (Canary islands and northwest USA) (Ref: GL.12.15)

Dr Mike Branney and Dr Tiffany Barry (University of Leicester) and Dr Richard Brown (University of Durham)

Reconstructing sedimentary provenance in the past: applying a state of the art isotopic toolbox (Ref: GL.12.16)

Professor Randall Parrish and Professor Melanie Leng (University of Leicester); Professor C Hawkesworth (St-Andrews) and Dr Craig Storey (University of Portsmouth)

CO2 sequestration into diamond mine waste (Ref: GL.12.17)

Dr Gawen Jenkin, Dr Dan Smith, Mr Kip Jeffrey and Dr Shaun Heaphy (University of Leicester); Dr Philip Martineau (De Beers)

ADDITIONAL PROJECT FOR WHICH FULL FUNDING MAY BE AVAILABLE

Tooth wear in fishes and killer whales - developing 3D microtextural analysis as a robust tool for dietary and trophic analysis in living and fossil aquatic vertebrates (Ref: GL.12.18)

Professor Mark Purnell and Professor Melanie Leng (University of Leicester)