the long and winding road Credit Sharon Repton
the long and winding road Credit Sharon Repton

PhD opportunities

If you have a funded insect-related or entomology PhD or Masters opportunity please send us the details info@royensoc.co.uk

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Molecular interplay in plant-aphid-virus interactions

Exploring the role of extracellular vesicles in insect pest saliva

Cognition in Insects

Digging up the history of infection and symbiosis fossillised iin genomic sequence

Defensive symbiont dynamics in the biological control of agricultural pests

Exploring persistence of ecological networks in anthropogencially modified landscapes

Resolving the role of seasonally fluctuating balancing selection in maintaing adaptive genetic diversity in wild butterfly populations

The allotment-soil-microbiome: The missing piece in the race to find nature-based solutions to tackle biodiversity loss and food security

Peatlands, plants, and pollinators – An informatics approach to protecting natural capital

Marine and freshwater wetland recovery from extreme events

Food web subsidies in wetlands under multiple stressors

Development of non-invasive sampling methods for the study of pollinators

What shapes microbial symbiont communities in insects?

Restoring the Glory: The Conservation Genomics of the Kentish Glory Moth

Evaluating efforts to create temperate rainforest: recruitment of biodiversity and resilience to natural enemies

Priming of long-term defence against insect pests in forest tree

Swamped: Is Crassula helmsii a significant threat to wetland biodiversity?

Impacts of floral nutritional loss on pollinator community interactions

Does Large Wood in River Restoration Improve Water Quality and Ecological Health?

Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage – Multifunctional flower strips and insect support in a changing climate

Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage – Disease signalling in insect societies

Assessing the impact of parasitic bees and extreme weather events on bee colonies and Indigenous beekeeping livelihoods in the Peruvian Amazon

Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage – The benefits and costs of animal cooperation: Hamilton’s rule in the wild

Architectural immunity in ants

Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage – The legacy impacts of extreme climate events on animal behaviour, physiology, and fitness

Uncovering the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems through the lens of animal behaviour

Engineering mosquitoes to provide no-cold-chain delivery of vaccines

Microbiome dynamics and pathogen spread in pollinator species networks.

Evolutionary mechanisms underlying differences in the innate immune response to infection.

How do microplastics affect pesticide risk in honeybees?

Molecular interactions between the bruchid beetle and developing faba bean seed

Molecular mechanism of innate immunity mediated by the Toll/IL1 receptor signalling pathways

Research projects

Towards insect-mimetic acoustic hierarchical structures

Deep Learning for Woodland Soil Biodiversity Identification and Monitoring