Undergraduate – Research Placements & Opportunities

Research Experience Placements
Applications closed for 2022 NERC Research Experience Placements - undergraduate student opportunity
Previous Projects
These are some of the projects students worked on in previous years:
Project Title | Department/Organisation |
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Ecosystem responses to drought intensification | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Next-generation ice-sheet fracture models to quantitatively predict iceberg calving and sea-level rise | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Modifying spatial reproductions of natural soundscapes to evaluate ecoacoustic analysis algorithms | Dyson School of Design Engineering |
Quantum linear regression for anaerobic digestion unprecedented forecasting and optimisation | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Novel chemistry for a circular economy for bauxite residue | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Pathway to providing environmentally friendly lubrication solutions - replacing silicone oils with bio-acceptable alternatives | Mechanical Engineering |
Towards nature-positive businesses: Meta-meta-analysis on the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity | Natural History Museum |
Machine learning analysis of micro-scale industrial energy systems | Center for Environmental Policy |
Phytophthora communities in UK nurseries: understanding the role of traits, biotic interactions and nursery management in pathogen invasions | UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
Investigating shoreline changes using freely available archives of satellite image data | Earth Science and Engineering |
Do habitat and distributional traits predict which European mosquito species vector important viruses? | UK Centre for Ecoloyg and Hydrology |
EcoBuilder: an ecosystem dynamics game | Life Sciences |
Tackling xenobiotic reistance in agriculture: implications for carbon emissions | Institute of Zoology |
Risk analysis of nanomaterials in the environment | Materials |
Machine learning analysis of energy storage data | Dyson School of Design |
Is the geomagnetic field dipolar at high-latitudes | Earth Sciene & Engineering |
Low-cost wireless sensor networks for river flow monitoring | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
Techno-economic analysis of biorefineries fuelled by sugar beet pulp | Chemical Engineering |
Where are the missing grasses? | Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew |
Developing a Bayesian framework for modelling repetitive element evolution | Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew |
Biogas conversion in oxygen separation membranes | Earth Science & Engineering |
Plate reconstructions in the South Atlantic | Earth Science & Engineering |
Probabilistic assessment of tsunami hazard to the UK | Earth Science & Engineering |
Uncertainty quantification and parameter estimation in environmental fluid dynamics | Earth Science & Engineering |
An investigation of the characteristics of visits to National Trails | Natural England |