Breaking Pathways PhD GMIT

A 4-year PhD is currently being advertised, supervised by Heather Lally, Dolores Byrne & Emma Gray. The PhD project is ‘Monitoring and evaluating targeted mitigation approaches to improve water quality: Evaluating break the pathway measures’ and will be based at Marine and Freshwater Research Centre, Atlantic Technological University, Galway City. This is suitable for graduates in Agroecology, Aquatic Ecology, Zoology, Geography, Biology, Ecology, or a related discipline.

UK Students are considered home students and eligible for funding.

The deadline to apply is 29th March and here is a link with more information: https://www.gmit.ie/research/postgraduate-research/research-vacancies.

PhD opportunity: Biodiversity enhancement and the provisioning of ecosystem services through improved ecological connectivity

Applications are invited for a 4 year PhD position at the Centre for Environmental Research Innovation and Sustainability (CERIS) at The Institute of Technology Sligo. This is an exciting opportunity to work on the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine funded project – FARM ECOS (Farming and Natural Resources: Measures of Ecological Sustainability). The project is led by Teagasc and includes NUI Galway, Institute of Technology Sligo, Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University as collaborators. The overall aim of the project is to identify and outline the evidence base for novel, cost-effective measures to protect and enhance farmland biodiversity through increased habitat quantity, enhanced habitat quality and improved ecological connectivity, from the farm to landscape scale.