MScR projects hosted by the Faculty of Science

Browse research opportunities hosted by the Faculty of Science below.

Want to undertake research in a different area? We welcome applications from candidates with their own, original research proposals. Please identify suitable research supervisor(s) from our expert directory and contact them directly. Once they agree to become your supervisor(s), we are happy to accept your application. Many exciting examples of research conducted at University of Bristol can also be found here.

Contact our Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Joanne Norris, to discuss your ambitions in more detail.

Integrating resilience into flood modelling
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences and the Faculty of Engineering.
In awe of the abyss: Conservation, culture, and the deep ocean
Hosted by School of Earth Sciences and the Department of English.
Design and construction of compartmentalised biomimetic microreactors for CO2 capture
Hosted by School of Chemistry.
The future of UK heat extremes and lessons from the past
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.
Machine learning for climate extremes
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences and Department of Computer Science.
Life at the extreme: understanding the microbiome of the cryosphere
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.
Global climate implications of rapid collapse of the Antarctic ice sheet
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.
What is the role of convective organisation on future extreme rainfall?
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.

Lifestyles of extremophiles: understanding nutrient and energy flows through the cryosphere.
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.
Modelling the bio-cryosphere; how do glacier algal blooms contribute to the global carbon cycle?
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.

Revealing coccolithophore ecology via trait-based statistics
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.
How warm can you go? Modelling polar amplification in past climates
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.
Investigating the understudied impacts of climate change on extreme heat in Africa
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.
Climate change’s impact on extreme UK drought
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.

Turning sunlight into fuels: discovery of new catalysts for renewable energies
Hosted by the School of Chemistry and the Faculty of Engineering.
Nanostructured Excitonic Superconductors
Hosted by the School of Chemistry.
Superconductivity in 3D
Hosted by the School of Chemistry.

Urban Nature-Based Solutions – Revitalising the City?
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.
Validating apparent urban areas
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.

4-D Modeller – A proof of concept of spatio-temporal Bayesian Inference for Big Data FULLY-FUNDED
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences
Extreme events in the Anthropocene ocean
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.

Synthetic tissue-like materials harvest light
Hosted by the School of Chemistry.
Novel biomaterials for cleaning waters
Hosted by the School of Chemistry.
What can the microbiome tell us about expanding ocean dead zones?
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.
Investigating what controls marine N2O production
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.
Artifical intelligence for environmental monitoring
Hosted by the School of Geographical Sciences.

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