School of Earth and Environment

Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics (IGT) PhD Projects

The Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics (IGT) is dedicated to understanding the structure and evolution of the Earth and its neighbouring planets. Please have a look at our latest projects listed below and use the links to the right of your screen which give information about the application procedure, fees and scholarships, and other relevant information. If you have already secured sponsorship for your research degree study and have a specific research proposal, we would welcome an application form from you.

Projects with Guaranteed Funding

Simultaneous measurement of Q and AVO from seismic reflection amplitudes NEW
Dr Roger Clark (Leeds), Dr Linda Hodgson (BP, Aberdeen)
Characterising the deep crustal structure of an exhumed ductile shear zone via EBSD: The Uludag Massif, Turkey NEW
Dr Richard Phillips and Dr Geoff Lloyd
Application Deadline ASAP
Mapping and modelling spatial variation in strain accumulation along the North Anatolian Fault Dr Tim Wright & Professor Greg Houseman FILLED

Projects in competition for the School's NERC Doctoral Training Awards

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 3 February 2012, and interviews will be held on Monday 27th February, Tuesday 28th February, and Friday 2 March 2012.

Our NERC Doctoral Training Awards are generally awarded to the best candidates following interviews. If you would like to be considered for one of these awards, you should select and rank up to 3 projects from the list below, submit a formal application, and supply all supporting documents before the closing date listed above. You may wish to check whether you are eligible for one of these quota awards.

Alternatively, funding for any of these projects may be sought in the University's scholarship competitions.

Can 4D seismics be used to quantify the volume of geologically sequestered CO2? - Dr Doug Angus, Dr Roger Clark and Dr Piroska Lorinczi

Effects of 3D small-scale boundary roughness on seismic and GPR reflection data - Dr Roger Clark & Prof Jurgen Neuberg

A seismological investigation of crust and mantle anisotropy across the North Anatolian Fault Zone, Turkey - Dr David Cornwell and Dr Sebastian Rost

Mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry of the Precambrian Oceanic Lithosphere; a study of the Balkan-Carpathian Ophiolite - Dr Jason Harvey and Dr Ivan Savov

Characterising the Mechanisms of Dynamic Fault Rupture - Dr Mark Hildyard and Prof Jurgen Neuberg

Upper Mantle Structure beneath the Carpathian-Pannonian System of Central and Eastern Europe - Professor Greg Houseman

Understanding the deformation mechanisms of the coseismic event: an electron microscopy analysis of fault-generated pseudotachylytes - Dr Geoff Lloyd and Dr Richard Phillips FILLED

Permeability and fluid-rock interaction in oceanic hydrothermal systems - Dr Andrew McCaig, Prof Bruce Yardley and Prof Joe Cann

Developing new methods for determining timescales of magma movement from volcanic products with direct application to eruption monitoring - Dr Daniel Morgan and Prof Marjorie Wilson

Linking short and long timescales in geodynamo models - Dr Jon Mound & Dr Chris Davies

Combining Geophysics and Petrology to Explore Volcanological Linkages via Observation and Modelling - Prof Jurgen Neuberg and Dr Dan Morgan

High resolution dating of palaeoseismic events on active bedrock fault scarps, Abruzzo, Central Italy - Dr Richard Phillips and Dr Dave Banks

Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces in the lowermost mantle; are the oldest structures on Earth chemical or thermal anomalies? - Dr Sebastian Rost, Prof Graham Stuart and Dr Stephen Stackhouse

Petrology and Geochemistry of sills, dykes and basaltic volcanic conduits from the San Rafael Volcanic Field, Colorado Plateau, USA. - Dr Ivan Savov

Testing models of convergent mantle dynamics: the seismic structure of the Pannonian- Carpathian region from joint surface wave and P- and S-wave receiver function inversion - Prof Graham Stuart, Dr Doug Angus & Prof Greg Houseman

Collision-related volcanism in Armenia - Prof Marjorie Wilson and Dr Ivan Savov

Separating meteorological and crustal deformation parameters using advanced InSAR time series analysis - Dr Tim Wright (IGT) and Prof Doug Parker (ICAS)