For evidence users
Working with a doctoral student on short term projects can bring valuable skills and experience into your team. It is an excellent way to develop new links with the research community and can act as a stepping stone to more substantial collaborative projects.
If you have a project in mind please complete the project proposal form below and email to info@epwales.org.uk. Further guidance on how to fill out the form and what makes a suitable project is also available below.

Welsh Government Research Fellowship: River Basin Management Plans in Wales beyond 2027
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Student placement for Anti Racist Systematic Review
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Management and Protection of Water Quality in Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Contaminated Land in Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Adopting a collaborative approach to One Health working
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Review of Soundscape Skills Gap in Welsh Public Bodies
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Domestic Burning and Smoke Control in Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Development of Soil Policy Statement for Wales – Soil and Land Planning
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Development of Soil policy statement for Wales – Soil Monitoring Opportunities
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Welsh Government PhD Placement – Air Quality Evidence: development of national air quality targets for Wales.
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Welsh Government Research Fellowship: Soil Functions Map for Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Soil and Land Planning in England and Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Soil Monitoring Opportunities for Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Microplastics in the freshwater environment and their interaction with other pollutants
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Assessment of drinking water quality standards in Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Assessment of the Water Framework Directive approach in Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Local Environment Quality Policy Development
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Natural Resources Wales PhD Placement Opportunities: Chemicals In Water
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Chemical Threats to Water Quality
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Anti-microbial Resistance in the Water Environment
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Welsh Government: Appointment of Clean Air Advisory Panel Members
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Analysing the evidence, issues and impacts of future recycling in Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Adaptation to climate change: agriculture and land use
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Air Quality Evidence: Industrial Air Pollution
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: National Air Quality Targets
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Management and Protection of Protected Sites in Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Management and Protection of Water Quality in Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Single-Use Vapes Impact Analysis Co-ordinator
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: International Biodiversity Policy
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Welsh Government: Appointment of Chair to the Clean Air Advisory Panel for Wales
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WG PhD Student Placement: The Economic and Wider Value of Water in Wales
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PhD Studentship Opportunity: Fate and effect of micro- and nanoplastics in constructed wetlands and downstream aquatic ecosystems.
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Natural Resources Wales PhD Placement Opportunity: Investigating trends in Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) abundance in Milford Haven
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Welsh Government Opportunity: PhD Placement – Supporting the Welsh Government’s work to control Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and the Environment
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Welsh Government Opportunity: PhD Placement -Water quality monitoring in Wales – building a full picture, and understanding the strengths, weaknesses and gaps in data.
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Welsh Government Opportunity: PhD Placement – Assessing the impact of highway drainage outfalls on the environment and water quality, and minimise the pollution they cause
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Welsh Government Opportunity: Anti-racist Wales Action Plan – Climate Change Environment and Rural Affairs Policy Fellowship
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Economic Effect of Bathing Water Designation
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Agricultural Wages and Employment Evidence Base
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Welsh Government Opportunity: Tackling the Nature Crisis Fellowship
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Biodiversity Taskforce and International Biodiversity Policy
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JNCC Opportunities
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ESRC Wales DTP PhD Studentship Opportunity: Identifying New Woodland Owner Types
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NRW PhD Placement: Biogenic Reef Creation Opportunities
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Reducing Single Use Plastics and Litter Prevention
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Nutrient Trading Schemes, a Possible Solution to River Eutrophication in Wales?
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Soil Policy Evidence Programme – Soil Evidence Review and Developing Future Policy
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Developing a Soil Policy Statement for Wales: Stakeholder Engagement
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NRW PhD Placement: Data collation to aid understanding of otter decline in Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: A methodology for the prioritisation of investment in flood risk management across Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: Creating digital map of outdoor public access in Wales
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Welsh Government PhD Placement: The environmental impact of plastic containing wet wipes
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NRW PhD Placement: Drone Mapping and Data Assessment for LIFEDeeRiver Project
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NRW PhD Placement: Net Benefits for Biodiversity Metric for Wales
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NRW PhD Placement: Exploring the Green Marketplace Concept
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Welsh Government PhD Placement in Marine Resilience and Climate Change Division – “Climate change evidence, actions and interventions in Welsh seas
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Welsh Government Placement: Can key physical attributes be used to quickly and effectively categorise spoil tips to delineate those assets where an instability potential requires greater statutory management duties?
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Welsh Government Student Placement Opportunity: Supporting the Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales (IEPAW)
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Welsh Government Placement: Biodiversity Taskforce and International Biodiversity Policy
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Welsh Government Placement: The benefits and challenges of increasing the designation of inland bathing waters in Wales
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