PhD studentships now OPEN for applications

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******Applications now OPEN*******

The following PhDs are being offered through various funding streams and in various schools across the university. Please see the applications details for each individual PhD to ensure you complete the correct, corresponding paperwork.

This UKSA funded PhD is being offered in the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences:

OU22 ­– How to Find Life on Mars: Investigating biological potential and putative biosignature formation    (how to apply)

The deadline for applications is 12 noon on Wednesday 22nd February 2023

This OU funded PhD is being offered in the Law School

LAW02 - Whose Commons is it Anyway? Environmental Authority and the Development of Space Law        (how to apply)

The deadline for applications is 12 noon on Tuesday 21st February 2023

******Applications now closed*******

These CENTA funded PhD were being offered in the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences:

OU3 - Tracing the dispersal of extremophiles within geothermal aerosols in Iceland  

OU11 - Carbon monoxide-fuelled life in saline environments  

OU12 - After the dust has settled: The post-impact hydrothermal system at Rochechouart impact crater and implications for Early Earth

This OU funded PhD was being offered in the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences:

OU 15 - A deep dive into biogeochemical cycling in Icelandic Hot Springs

These OU funded PhD were being offered in the School of Physical Sciences:

PS2: From Warm and Wet to Cold and Dry on Mars: Ancient Environments as Seen from a Rover Perspective

PS9: Signatures of organic-salt-ice interactions in the plumes of Enceladus and other icy moons