FYI Best wishes, Pawel ________________________________ From: Sophia Daoudi-Simison <Sophia.Daoudi@newcastle.ac.uk> Sent: 12 November 2026 08:36 To: Pawel Fedurek <pawel.fedurek@stir.ac.uk> Subject: FW: PhD opportunities to circulate CAUTION: This email originated from outside University of Stirling. Do not follow links or open attachments if you doubt the authenticity of the sender or the content. ________________________________ Hi Pawel, Could you please circulate the below adverts to the BERG? And any animal behaviour MSc students you have 😊 Best, Sophia Sophia Daoudi-Simison | PhD | Animal Behaviour Lecturer (Pronouns: She/Her) School of Psychology, DMBB 4.25, Newcastle University, UK EVOMINDs<http://evominds.co.uk/> Centre for Behaviour and Evolution<https://www.ncl.ac.uk/cbe/> Scottish Primate Research Group<http://living-links.org/about/scottish-primate-research-group/> E: sophia.daoudi@newcastle.ac.uk<mailto:sophia.daoudi@newcastle.ac.uk> E: webeditor@asab.org (ASAB Communications Officer) T: 0191 208 3108 [Image] Note: My normal working hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. I will reply to student emails within 2 working days (excluding weekends and bank holidays), unless I am otherwise unavailable (i.e. when I have an out of office response in place, when the University is closed, or when I am on annual leave). My e-mail practice conforms to the Faculty of Medical Sciences E-mail Guidelines https://newcastle.sharepoint.com/hub/medical/Pages/policy-procedures.aspx ________________________________ From: Andy Radford <Andy.Radford@bristol.ac.uk> Date: Thursday, 12 November 2026 at 08:17 To: Subject: PhD opportunities to circulate ⚠Warning: Email originating from outside Newcastle University Were you expecting this message? Proceed with caution when clicking on links and attachments. Hiya, We have five funded PhD opportunities here (details below) - I would be extremely grateful if you could circulate to excellent candidates (these will be super competitive positions). Huge thanks. Take care, Andy Fully funded PhD opportunities in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol Two Faculty scholarship projects: 1. Intergroup communication & conflict in mountain gorillas. Supervisors: Robin Morrison & Andy Radford (Bristol) The project will combine long-term datasets, fieldwork and acoustic analyses to investigate the information communicated in gorilla’s chest beats, and the responses they elicit in their neighbours, to develop a novel understanding of large-scale communication networks in a landscape of intergroup conflict. Full details: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/funded-phd-intergroup-communication-an... 2. Ecology and conservation of migratory birds under global change. Supervisors: Fengyi Guo, Andy Radford & Tommaso Jucker (Bristol) The project will integrate multiple large datasets, including weather surveillance radar, eBird citizen science and potentially local fieldwork, to investigate how global stressors affect migratory bird population trends, migration timing (phenology) and flight behaviours. Full details: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/funded-phd-ecology-and-conservation-of... Deadline: 13th December 2026 Three NERC GW4+ DTP projects: 1. Enhancing coral reef restoration. Supervisors: Andy Radford, Steve Simpson (both Bristol), Sophie Nedelec (Exeter) & Johanna Leonhardt (CASE partner) This project will investigate experimentally how best to apply cutting-edge coral spawning, micro-fragmentation and gardening alongside farming damselfish (species who protect their coral territories) to aid coral reef restoration. Work will be done at the well-established restoration project of Soneva Conservation and Sustainability Maldives, who will act as a CASE partner. 2. The costs and benefits of intergroup relationships in gorillas. Supervisors: Robin Morrison, Andy Radford (both Bristol) & Lauren Brent (Exeter) The project will implement new technological approaches for recording, tracking and extracting wild gorilla behaviour to investigate how repeated interactions develop into long-term intergroup relationships and how these affect fitness. Work will be done in collaboration with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in Rwanda. 3. The effectiveness of conservation interventions in supporting migrating birds during stopover. Supervisors: Fengyi Guo, Andy Radford, Tommaso Jucker (all Bristol) & Timothy Darlington (Met Office) The project will integrate data from weather-surveillance radar, LiDAR-derived habitat structure and potentially targeted fieldwork to assess long-term impacts of conservation interventions on migrating bird communities across the UK. Work will be done in collaboration with the Met Office and the RSPB. Full details of all three projects and how to apply are available here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/courses/postgraduate/phdstudentships/ Deadline: 7th January 2027 Due to the balancing of my own home/work commitments, I may sometimes send emails outside of 'normal' working hours. 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