Current opportunities

Physical Geography

Applicants are invited to apply to work on the projects listed in the table below.

We are also happy to consider supervising candidates on topics of their own choosing. If this is of interest please contact appropriate staff on the list of research expertise in Physical Geography. It is essential to discuss such proposals with potential advisors in advance of applying, to check that we could, in principle, supervise in the suggested area.

Current Physical Geography projects

Human Geography

Human Geography applicants are encouraged to apply to pursue research projects which they have developed within their own research interests. For themes where we can offer supervision, please click on staff research expertise in Human Geography. It is strongly advised that you contact a potential supervisor to discuss your proposal before you apply. The Human Geography postgraduate tutor Dr Matt Watson can also help in choosing supervisors.

ESRC White Rose Network Fully Funded +3 Studentships are now open for applications.
Deadline: 15 March 2013.

ESRC Collaborative Fully Funded Studentship is now open for applications.
Deadline: 27 March 2013.

Joint Physical-Human projects

Where available, specificied interdisciplinary projects involving both the Human and Physical elements of Geography are listed in the table below. We can also supervise projects in this class, of the candidates own choosing, regarding which, please contact appropriate faculty in advance of application to verify the project's suitability.

Current Joint Physical-Human Geography projects

Further details on topics are available by clicking on the topic title

Physical Geography
Topic	Supervisors
Controls on dust emission processes from ephemeral lake sources	Dr Robert Bryant
Dust emission processes from Pro-Glacial sources	Dr Robert Bryant
Dynamics of Strombolian volcanism	Dr Andrew McGonigle
Evaluating daily pressure variability and storminess climate in global climate model simulations	Dr Edward Hanna, Professor Grant Bigg and Dr Julie Jones
Exploring the possible effect of the Sun on European winter climate	Dr Edward Hanna
How can we rehabilitate urban sea trout populations?	Dr Helen Moggridge (University of Sheffield), Dr Nic Bury (King's College London) and The Rivers Trusts
How can we restore urban chalk streams?	Dr Helen Moggridge in collaboration with The Rivers Trusts
Investigating drainage beneath ice sheets; subglacial meltwater channel networks beneath the British-Irish Ice Sheet	Professor Chris Clark
Late Pleistocene proglacial lacustrine environments within the Vale of Pickering: A dynamic yardstick for the growth and collapse of the Last British-Irish Ice Sheet	Professor Mark Bateman
Long-term landscape evolution in the North Atlantic region: testing the ICE (isostacy-climate-erosion) hypothesis using in situ and detrital thermochronometry	Dr Darrel Swift, Dr Cristina Persano (University of Glasgow) and Dr Finlay Stuart (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre)
Luminescence of sediments in present and past glacial systems	Dr Darrel Swift and Professor Mark Bateman
Modelling historical and future changes of glaciers in the Alps	Dr Julie Jones and Dr Darrel Swift
Origin and significance of englacial thrusting in temperate ice masses	Dr Darrel Swift, Dr David Graham (Loughborough University) and Dr Simon Cook (University of Aberystwyth)
Putting the Pulse on air-sea-climate interactions in the northern North Atlantic	Dr Edward Hanna
Remote Sensing of Volcanogenic Aerosols	Dr Robert Bryant
The fluctuating Ice margins of Yorkshire during the Last Glacial Maximum	Professor Mark Bateman
The impact of environmental change on Atlantic cod	Professor Grant Bigg and Dr John Pinnegar (CEFAS)
The influence of glacier-bed overdeepenings on sediment transfer processes and glacier-structure and dynamics: a case study of the European Alps	Dr Darrel Swift (Sheffield) and Dr Simon Cook (Aberystwyth)
The influence of the Pacific-South American teleconnection pattern on Antarctic Peninsula climate	Dr Julie Jones
The origin and glaciological significance of the overdeepening of ice-sheet beds	Dr Darrel Swift (Sheffield), Professor Chris Clark (Sheffield) and Dr Robert Bingham (Aberdeen)
Tropical Extratropical Circulation Interactions in the South Pacific	Dr Julie Jones (Sheffield), Dr Jim Renwick and Dr Andrew Lorry (National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand)
Unlocking palaeoenvironmental information from Sand Ramps and Falling Dunes	Dr Robert Bryant
Warm Arctic Cold Continents - a cause of recent Northern Hemisphere climate extremes?	Dr Edward Hanna

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Joint Physical-Human projects
No specific projects are currently available

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