The first funded PhD studentships are now being advertised for the 2014 intake.
A new system?
You may have noticed that the way in which Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) PhD studentships are organised has changed this year. From now on any NERC-funded studentship will belong to one of 15 Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) institutes or consortia.
Read more on the NERC website
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/available/postgrad/documents/dtp-awards.pdf
What has changed?
- The supervisors for each studentship will come from two or more institutes within each DTP although most studentships are likely to be based at a single institute / university for the majority of the time.
- Some of the studentships will be based at NERC's Research Institutes which include: British Antarctic Survey, British Geological Survey, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, National Oceanography Centre and the National Centre for Atmospheric Science.
- Multi-disciplinary approaches to tackle research problems are emminent and the relevance of research to business, policy and society is a high priority.
- Studentships within DTPs will come together as a community for training, research presentations and shared resources.
- Students will gain from a structured training program alongside their research.
The studentships will be advertised on principal host websites as well as individual websites and are starting to appear now. Check out the website for each DTP to see the range of projects with funding and application procedures:
The Oxford DTP in Environmental Research
SCENARIO. Postgraduate centre in the SCience of the Environmnet: Natural and Anthropogenic pRocesses, Impacts and Opportunities
ENVISION: Developing next generation leaders in environmental science
The London NERC Doctoral Training Partnership
NERC Science @ Leeds and York - Site for PhD Training in Evnironmental Research (SPHERES)
Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA)
Training the next generation of environmental scientists
IAPETUS: Postgraduate Environmental Training NexUS: transforming doctoral students into the next generation leaders in science, industry and policy
Environment East (EnvEast) Doctoral Trainin Partnership
The Cambridge Earth System Science DTP: Multi-disciplinary studies of the solid Earth, its atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere and biosphere
GW4+ - a consortium of excellence in innovative research training
Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet
E3 - Edinburgh Earth and Environment - Doctoral Training Partnership
SPITFIRE - the Southampton Partnership for Innovative Training of Future Investigators Researching the Environment
Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment (ACCE)
Good luck to all those applying for a 2014 PhD from the UK YES Network
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