Study with us

Doing a PhD with SEI York offers the opportunity to study in a beautiful medieval city in Northern England, surrounded by world-class researchers who are working on environment and development issues at a local, national, regional and global level. 

We are an international and diverse group of people, welcoming of everyone. We offer full and part-time options for study.

You can review current PhD opportunities on our Work with Us page

SEI York has a good number of international students that help me to work with multinational people and understand different cultures.

Why York?

At the York office, you will have the opportunity to conduct research in a wide variety of fields including air quality, climate change, sustainable consumption and production, well-being and behavioural change, participatory research (including citizen science), and ecosystem services.

Although you will be based at York, there is the opportunity to work with researchers across the different SEI centres as well as with colleagues in other departments at the University of York.

As a postgraduate, you will have access to the University's facilities including the library, teaching, training and development opportunities and student support services, as well as our network of world-class researchers.

‌We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated and talented students to undertake postgraduate study in our key research areas.

The support that I receive to complete my PhD is incredible and my supervisors are still very much active researchers.

What next?

Find out if you are eligible to apply for a postgraduate opportunity with SEI York. For informal enquiries please contact: sei-phd-enquiries@york.ac.uk