Plant Health Undergraduate Studentships

The Royal Society of Biology offers Plant Health Undergraduate Studentships in the UK for summer 2022. These positions provide undergraduates with research experience in plant health science, addressing challenges identified by Defra. Students will work on projects related to pest detection, biosecurity, and resilience in plant health, while gaining training and networking opportunities in the field.
We’ve worked with plant scientists to create thirteen fantastic projects that address major plant health challenges identified by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Students will undertake these projects (below) in the summer of 2022, getting research experience and generating scientfic outcomes to improve our understanding of how to protect plant health.

Plant Health Undergraduate Studentships aim to:
• Address skills and capacity challenges in plant health science by providing attractive opportunities for research experience to suitable undergraduates, offering them the opportunity to undertake supervised research with leading research groups.
• Facilitate training of undergraduates in research practice.
• Encourage research proposals and generate research outcomes in areas relevant to Defra’s plant health priorities.
• Build networks of research groups, emerging scientists and employers with a focus on plant health.

Plant Health Undergraduate Studentships projects address at least one of the following priorities identified by Defra, related to plant health:
• Identifying, assessing and preventing risks
• Better detection of pests and diseases
• Management of high-risk pests and diseases
• Planting for resilience and enhancing tolerance to pests and diseases
• Strengthening our ‘biosecurity culture’

Please contact plantsci@rsb.org.uk with any questions.