CASE and Collaborative Projects available for 2018 & 2019 entry
CASE projects involve an internship with an industry partner and additional financial support for the student. Collaborative projects involve co-supervision with an external partner but not necessarily a financial component. NERC funded organisations and Independent research organisations are no longer able to be CASE partners under new NERC rules and so collaborative relationships are the mechanism by which students can develop projects with them.
Students applying to start in 2019 can specify one of the following projects on their application form and will be considered for entry direct to that project. The projects are listed according to the department of the lead Oxford supervisor.
Department of Zoology
CASE Studentships (BEEP stream)
Title: Determining the effectiveness of ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change
Supervisors: Nathalie Seddon (Zoology), Dilys Roe, IIED
Supervisors: EJ Milner Gulland (Zoology) & Julia Baker Balfour Beatty
Title: Native and invasive ladybirds in a changing UK climate
Supervisors: Jen Perry (Zoology) and Helen Roy (CEH) (CASE partner Royal Horticultural Society)
Title: Movement analysis of zooplankton through filming
Supervisors: Mike Bonsall & Ulrike Obertegger (FEM)
Collaborative Studentship (BEEP Stream)
Title: What the finder knew: measuring changing public knowledge of natural history
Supervisors: Andy Gosler (Zoology) and Rob Robinson, British Trust for Ornithology
Title: Nutritional value of floral pollen to bee species
Supervisors: Geraldine Wright & Phil Stevenson (Kew)
Department of Plant Sciences
CASE Studentships (BEEP Stream)
Title: Cavity Nesting Bees in Wytham Woods
Supervisors: Tonya Lander (Plant Sciences) and CASE Partner The Friends of Wytham Woods
Supervisors: Stephen Harris (Plant Sciences), Oliver Pescott (CEH) (CASE Partner The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland)
Supervisors: Andy Hector (Plant Sciences) and Irina Fedorenko, Biocarbon Engineering
School of Geography & the Environment
Collaborative Studentship (BEEP Stream)
Title: Improving our understanding of plant diversity to better protect it
Supervisors: Richard Grenyer & Sidonie Bellot (Kew)
Department of Physics
CASE Studentships (PCS Stream)
Supervisors: Anu Dudhia (Physics) and Roger Saunders Met Office Satellite Applications Group
Title: Dynamics of oceanic western boundary currents at high resolution
Supervisors: David Marshall (Physics) and Mike Bell Met Office
(This studentship is for a 2019 start)
Title: Mechanisms for variability of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in laboratory and numerical models
Supervisors: Peter Read (Physics), Alfonso Castrejon-Pita (Engineering Science) Scott Osprey (Physics and NCAS), Neal Butchart and Ben Shipway Met Office
Collaborative Studentships (PCS Stream)
Title: Quantifying the role of AMOC decline in climate change impacts
Supervisors: Tim Woollings and Jeff Knight (Met Office)
(This studentship is for a 2019 start and has the potential to be converted to CASE)
Title: Paramaterization of submesoscale eddies in the ocean surface boundary layer
Supervisors: David Marshall and George Nurser (NOC)
Title: Studying weather and climate predictability with crowd computing
Supervisors: Tim Palmer, Antje Weisheimer & Peter Dueben (ECMWF)
Title: Observing the Origins of Tropical Cyclones
Supervisors: Anu Dudhia & Tony McNally (ECMWF)
Title: Satellite Observations of Air Quality
Supervisors Anu Dudhia & Brian Kerridge (RAL Space)
Title: Improving probabilistic weather and climate forecasts using observational constraints
Supervisors: Hannah Christensen & Magdalena Balmaseda (ECMWF)
Department of Earth Sciences
CASE Studentships (DESPNH Stream)
Supervisors: Tamsin Mather, Hugh Jenkyns and Sander Van Den Boorn (Shell)
Supervisors: Mike Daly and James Mwale (FQML)
Title: The dynamics of flowing, subsurface salt sheets: observational constraints and theoretical models.
Supervisors: Richard Katz & Joe Cartwright, and Dan Roberts of CASE partner Rockfield
Collaborative Studentships (DESPNH Stream)
Title: Terrestrialisation in vertebrates using evidence from synchrotron tomography
Supervisors: Roger Benson, Vincent Fernandez (NHM London), Stig Walsh (National Museums of Scotland) and Samantha Giles, University of Birmingham.
Title: Development, environmental change, and dispersal abilities in living and extinct mammals
Supervisors: Erin Saupe and Anjali Goswami (NHM London)
Supervisors: Don Porcelli, Imad Ahmed & Fred Mosselmans (Diamond Light Source)
Title: Seasonal shifts in phytoplankton community structure in the Southern Ocean observed from space
Supervisors: Heather Bouman & Adrian Martin, Stephani Henson (NOC) and Mark Moore (Southampton)
Mathematical Institute
CASE Studentship (DESPNH Stream)
Title: Understanding the resilience of nature-based flood risk reduction measures
Supervisors: Ian Hewitt, Rob Lamb (JBA Trust) and Barry Hanking JBA Consulting
Research Lab of Archaeology and the History of Art (RLAHA)
Collaborative Studentship (DESPNH Stream)
Title: Reconstructing the past eruption history of Campi Flegrei, Italy
Supervisors: Victoria Smith (RLAHA) and Roberto Isaia, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
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- CASE Studentships
- CASE and Collaborative Projects available for 2018 & 2019 entry
- Paramaterization of submesoscale eddies in the ocean surface boundary layer
- Determining the effectiveness of ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change
- Mechanisms for variability of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in laboratory and numerical models
- Improving environmental, social and economic outcomes of nationally significant infrastructure projects
- Satellite Observations of Air Quality
- Dynamics of oceanic western boundary currents at high resolution
- Testing the role of tree diversity in the restoration of functioning tropical forest using a long-term experiment and drone-based remote sensing.
- What the finder knew: measuring changing public knowledge of natural history
- Quantifying the role of AMOC decline in climate change impacts
- Reconstructing the past eruption history of Campi Flegrei, Italy
- Cavity Nesting Bees in Wytham Woods
- Improving probabilistic weather and climate forecasts using observational constraints
- Improving our understanding of plant diversity to better protect it
- Understanding the molecular mechanisms of trace metal interactions with mineral surfaces in natural systems: an integrated stable isotope, XAS and HRTEM study.
- Movement analysis of zooplankton through filming
- Nutritional value of floral pollen to bee species
- Copper/Cobalt strata-bound systems; A Basin Analysis approach to the tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Central African Katangan basin of Zambia and its strata-bound copper deposits.
- Seasonal shifts in phytoplankton community structure in the Southern Ocean observed from space
- Can humanity have its cake and eat it too? Extending the Mitigation Hierarchy to support implementation of international biodiversity targets in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals
- The fate of mercury (Hg) during thermal maturation of sediments and its implications for interpreting the geological record
- Understanding the resilience of nature-based flood risk reduction measures
- Native and invasive ladybirds in a changing U.K. climate
- Terrestrialisation in vertebrates using evidence from synchrotron tomography
- Studying weather and climate predictability with crowd computing
- Development, environmental change, and dispersal abilities in living and extinct mammals
- The dynamics of flowing, subsurface salt sheets: observational constraints and theoretical models
- Observing the origins of Tropical Cyclones
- Global measurements of Sea Surface Temperature using the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
- Bayesian models for the analysis of botanical citizen science data: Understanding bias and improving inference