The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity is home to world-leading interdisciplinary research on the complexities of biodiversity change in the Anthropocene.

The team is wide ranging and continuously growing, bringing in expertise and insights from across different disciplines and subject areas to advance research in the most exciting emerging fields.

To bring this Centre to life, we will recruit a number of roles - both academic and professional support.

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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

lcab-enquiries@york.ac.uk

We're recruiting

We're offering five fully funded PhD studentships (UK fees and stipend) for a September 2025 start. Find out more in our current opportunities section below.

Current opportunities

We're now recruiting PhD studentships for a September 2025 start under the theme of Moulding the Future.

This year we are advertising seven supervisor defined projects, plus the opportunity for students to submit their own project ideas, and will ultimately award studentships to those whose experience, project and approach best fit with LCAB's aims. The projects are:

  • Women and biodiversity: gender and the making of the Kew Fungarium, 1900-1950 (Department of History)
  • Variations in carbon stocks and trade-offs with other ecosystem services in the Kruger National Park, South Africa (Department of Biology)
  • Re-imagining the waters: rewilding opportunities and sustainable harvest in Haweswater and Ullswater (Department of Maths)
  • Ecosystem services valuation and biodiversity (Department of Environment and Geography)
  • Exploring vernacular environmental narratives in the Irish Folklore Collection (Department of History)
  • Informing evidence-based perspectives and scenarios on past, present and future landscapes in North Yorkshire (Department of Archaeology)
  • Securing biodiversity through a transdisciplinary approach to small island waste management (Department of Biology)
  • Moulding the future - student pitched project providing insights into how we can build a better Anthropocene

Find out more and apply

We welcome enquiries from current or potential Independent Research Fellows interested in holding their fellowship with us. Fellows based in LCAB will be fully integrated in the wider interactive and collaborative life of the Centre, and should play a role in developing these aspects of our research community.
 
We will consider hosting fellows working in any area of research which aligns with the goals of our Centre and can offer a range of support tailored to the individual fellowship concerned. This may include:
 
  • guidance in developing and refining your research proposal along with advice on appropriate funding scheme
  • additional salary to extend the fellowship duration beyond the initial funding period (fully funded fellowships)
  • salary to support a postdoctoral research associate linked to the fellowship (fully funded fellowships)
  • salary match funding, which may be split with home departments (part-funded fellowships)
  • co-supervision of a PhD student associated with the Centre.
  • mentoring a postdoctoral research associate in the Centre
  • eligibility to bid for further LCAB research funding to support, for example, pump-priming activities, academic visitors to the Centre, short-term buy-in of skills or internal placements.
 
Fellows will also belong to a home department and further support may be available from this department. Find out more about each departments offer, and further guidance on holding a fellowship at York.
 
Centre specific enquiries should be directed to lcab-enquiries@york.ac.uk.  

Contact us

Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity

lcab-enquiries@york.ac.uk