Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) PhD Placement
**Please note, it is an opportunity being advertised by an external institution to the university.
Placement Start Date: September 2025 onwards (flexible)
Application criteria: All applicants must be registered PhD students and need approval from their academic supervisor before applying.
Apply by: 19/09/2025. Please submit a CV and covering letter to Donna Thomas (Academic Placements Administrator) via researchplacements@gov.wales
The Marine and Biodiversity Division of the Welsh Government is offering a PhD placement opportunity within its International Biodiversity Policy Team. This team leads on the development of Welsh Government policy relating to international biodiversity commitments, with a particular focus on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
The overarching purpose of this placement is to support the development and testing of a Wales-specific toolkit for identifying and recognising OECMs. This work contributes directly to Wales’s delivery of Target 3 of the GBF agreed at COP15 in 2022.