Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/R007799/1
SHEAR Studentship Cohort (SSC) programme
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor W Buytaert, Imperial College London, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Grant held at:
- Imperial College London, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Water resources
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Floods
- Regional & Extreme Weather
- Nat Resources, Env & Rural Dev
- Water resources in LICs
- Floods
- Landslides
- Earth Surface Processes
- Abstract:
- This proposal aims to provide an optimal training environment and programme to support a SHEAR Studentship Cohort (SSC) consisting of a single intake (2017-18) of 12 students, half of them from UK/EU and half from overseas. The SSC programme aims to complement and integrate further the current SHEAR-funded projects, with a particular focus on providing the students with excellent opportunities to gain transferable skills, to conduct original and scientifically excellent research, and to contribute to impact creation beyond the existing SHEAR projects. The scientific coordination of the SSC will be in the hands of a Steering Committee that includes members with extensive PhD management experience, as well as representatives of our practitioner and end-user community. In particular, we have created a strong link with the NERC DTP on Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet (SSCP) coordinated by the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment of Imperial College London. In addition to basic skills and training for science, which will take place within each university, we have assembled a bespoke training programme that consists of two sets of activities: - Compulsory activities. These activities focus on interaction between the students, fostering interdisciplinary approaches, and training on SHEAR specific skills including impact creation. - Complementary training opportunities and social activities. A wide range of training opportunities available at each of the SHEAR institutes will allow the SSC students to build a bespoke training portfolio tailored to their academic background, training needs, and ambitions and opportunities for impact creation. As many of these activities are linked to existing DTPs and CDTs in the SHEAR institutes, this will create further opportunities for the students to interact with the wider UK PhD community. In addition to producing scientifically excellent research, the SSC programme aims to create development impact in SubSaharan Africa and South Asia, in line with the broader SHEAR programme. For this, we have built into the SSC programme a set of impact creation activities supported by the SHEAR Knowledge Brokering team. In particular, the SSC impact creation is based on the following pathways: - Actively seeking involvement from overseas academics and stakeholders in the formulation phase of the PhD topics; - Including explicitly in the application form and throughout the training a project-specific impact plan; - Including in the training portfolio a specific set of opportunities for impact creation (e.g., media training, interaction and knowledge exchange with end-users); - Support for overseas placements with end-user organisations.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/R007799/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- SHEAR Studentships
This training grant award has a total value of £1,663,898
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Other Costs | Total - Fees | Total - Student Stipend | Total - RTSG |
|---|---|---|---|
| £176,127 | £523,771 | £821,003 | £143,001 |
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