Course summary
Your research degree is bespoke at the University of Nottingham, and allows you to choose your own area of interest to research, under the title of your choosing. Our Ecology and Evolutionary Biology grouping is made up of the following available PhD and MRes courses:
- Animal Behaviour
- Conservation Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Ecology
- Evolutionary Ecology
- Life sciences ranked 9th in the UK for research power
- More than 97% of research at Nottingham is recognised internationally
- More than 80% of our research is ranked in the highest categories as world-leading or internationally excellent
- 16 of our 29 subject areas feature in the UK top 10 by research power
- Evolutionary Biology
- Evolutionary biology of spiders and spider silk
- Computational molecular evolution
- Phylogenomics, protein evolution, evolutionary theory, and adaptation.
- Colour polymorphism and speciation in snails
- Evolutionary and population genomics of adaptation in plants
- Evolution of sparrow-human commensalism
- Ladybird colour polymorphism and male killers
- Ecology and evolution in three-spined sticklebacks
- Evolution and development of left-right asymmetry
- Trade-offs between social and sexual behaviour, learning and other components of life history, such as immune function and disease resistance
- Associative and higher order learning in invertebrates
- Evolution of insect pollinator systems
- How predators drive the evolution of colour patterns and mimicry
- Population genetics and conservation of the endangered fen raft spider
- Social Insect Biology and Conservation
- Impact of habitat fragmentation on conservation
- Harvest mice conservation
- Speciation and conservation of snails on remote Japanese archipelago, the Ogasawara islands
- Conservation ecology of declining vertebrate populations (especially birds)
- Competition and coexistence in animal communities
- Ecology of host-parasite interactions
- Insect pollinator systems
- Life history strategies and trade-offs
- Sexual selection and ecology
- Role of ecology in natural selection
- Chemical ecology of neurotoxins
- Bumblebee and spider ecology
- Aquatic environments and disease ecology
- Role of exuberant colour polymorphism in snail shells
- The evolutionary and behavioural ecology of insects and mammals
- Ecological genetics of sibling species of snail
- Sexual selection and ecology of birds
- Co-evolution of life histories and mimicry in insects
- Stickleback evolutionary ecology and parasitism
- Mimicry and colour polymorphism in invertebrates
- Host-parasite coevolution in freshwater systems
Entry requirements
British Honours degree at least 2:1 or equivalent. Applicants currently studying Masters in the UK will be accepted with a minimum average of 60% (Merit) in taught elements, if they have a 2:1 or equivalent at undergraduate level. Research Proposal A research proposal is required. This should be worked on with your proposed supervisor. References You should have 2 references with at least one of them being an academic reference. References from the proposed supervsior will be accepted if the applicant has only studied at Nottingham previously (for example as a UG student)
Fees and funding
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Provider information
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD