| Inge Elfferich | Using in situ sensors to monitor ecosystem health in freshwater catchments | Cardiff University | Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water |
| Claire Robertson | Beyond the surface: Enhancing freshwater pond ecosystem assessment through eDNA metabarcoding (2024) | UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; Cardiff University | Freshwater Habitats Trust |
| Agnethe Olsen | Bridging ecology and technology: Using citizen science and artificial intelligence to track fish health | Cardiff University | Wye & Usk Foundation |
| Daniel McDowell | One man's meat is another's poison: Exploring the effect of trematode perturbation on an aquatic community (2024) | Cardiff University | Natural History Museum |
| Ben McClay | Cascading effects of micro- and nano-plastics on lipid quality and transfer through freshwater planktonic ecosystems | Cardiff University | Cardiff Harbour Authority |
| Kosta Manser | The electric ecology of freshwater habitats | University of Bristol | |
| Harry Layfield | Diversity and Speciation of Invertebrates in Freshwater Habitats (2024) | University of Bristol | Department of Fisheries, Republic of Malawi |
| Joshua Rainbow | Integrated Biosensor Platform for Detection of Waterborne Pathogens: Improving Public Health (2023) | University of Bath | Public Health England |
| Tomo Homan | High resolution modelling of fate and transport of organic micropollutants and their effect on ecosystems in small rivers | University of Bath | Wessex Water |
| Laura Hayes | Cryptosporidium movement in water- impact of eutrophication and climate change on the zoonotic disease agent | Cardiff University | Public Health Wales |
| Jack Greenhalgh | Developing two non-invasive survey techniques for freshwater ecosystems: Environmental DNA and ecoacoustics (2022) | University of Bristol | Applied Genomics |
| Rory Burford | Of Metals and Matter: Biogeochemical impacts of acid rock drainage on glacial rivers in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru (2024) | University of Bristol | Global Challenges Research Fund |
| Costanza Zanghì | The combined effects of multiple environmental stressors on predator-prey interactions in freshwater habitats (2024) | University of Bristol | Freshwater Habitats Trust |
| Emma Pharaoh | Long-term river invertebrate trends in England and Wales (2024) | Cardiff University | Natural Resources Wales; Environment Agency |
| Duncan O'Brien | Complexity and regime shifts: testing the predictability of ecosystem transitions (2024) | University of Bristol | State of Israel Water Authority |
| Luke Lear | The ecology and evolution of bacterial virulence (2022) | University of Exeter | Environment Agency |
| April Hayes | Investigating selection for antimicrobial resistance by non-antibiotic drugs in microbial communities (2023) | University of Exeter | AstraZeneca |
| Elliot Druce | Freshwater Picocyanobacteria and their Organic Diet: An Investigation into Organic Nitrogen Assimilation in Freshwater Picocyanobacteria (2023) | University of Bristol | natural England |
| Toby Champneys | The Role Of Behavioural Mechanisms In The Invasion Success And Impact Of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus) In Tanzania (2023) | University of Bristol | Global Challenges Research Fund |
| Hebe Carmichael | Gaining Mechanistic Insights into multiple stressor effects using freshwater microbial communities (2024) | University of Exeter | Freshwater habitats Trust |
| Ashley Bell | Composition, diversity and response dynamics of fish skin microbiomes under environmental stress, including antibiotic exposure (2024) | University of Exeter | Cefas |
| Daniel Osmond | Adapting to life in metal polluted rivers: implications for conservation, genetic diversity and fisheries management in the brown trout (Salmo trutta) (2024) | University of Exeter | Westcountry Rivers Trust; Wildlife Conservation Trust |
| Victoria Hussey | Investigating nutrient cycling, retention and bioavailability of effluents discharged from constructed wetlands: optimising wetland management to reduce emerging risks to freshwaters (2024) | University of Bristol | British Geological Survey; Wessex Water |
| Katharine Moss | Understanding the ecological role of organic matter in urban freshwaters | UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; University of Bristol | Thames21 |
| Fin Ring-Hrubesh | Assessing the impact of peatland restoration on freshwater ecosystems | University of Bristol | Brecon Beacons National Park |
| Chris Webb | Determining nutrient fluxes and sources driving lowland drinking water reservoir ecosystem response (2024) | University of Bristol | Bristol Water |
| Annalise Hooper | Environmental triggers for geosmin and 2-MIB production in drinking water reservoirs (2023) | Cardiff University | Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water |
| Guglielmo Sonnino Sorisio | Fish Swimming Dynamics and Behaviour in the Vicinity of a Fish Exclusion Screen | Cardiff University | Environment Agency |
| Fiona Joyce | Effects of land use on the resilience of stream invertebrates to climate change (2023) | Cardiff University | Forest Research; Woodland Trust |
| Damiano Duci | Talking Algae: an early warning system for water equality threats | University of Bath | Wessex Water |
| Emma Vaughan | Speciation of emerging contaminants in wetland systems | University of Bath | Wessex Water |
| Kye Davies | Quantifying the impact of beaver reintroduction on aquatic ecology | University of Exeter | Devon Wildlife Trust |
| Franciszek Bydałek | The microbial ecology and fate of pathogens in constructed wetlands (2023) | University of Bath | Wessex Water |
| Gareth Bradbury | Can beaver-modified ecosystems mitigate water quality deterioration caused by both point and diffuse source pollution? | University of Exeter | National Trust |
