Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/L002582/1
Environment East (EnvEast) Doctoral Training Partnership
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor J Barclay, University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
- Grant held at:
- University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Science Topics:
- None
- Abstract:
- Environment East (EnvEast) will be a doctoral training partnership (DTP) founded upon world-leading environmental science and established excellence in PhD training. The EnvEast DTP will provide training and generate impact in three key themes of international significance: 1. Climate, Marine and Atmospheric Systems 2. Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development 3. Natural Hazards The partnership draws together relevant expertise from a complementary set of 22 research organisations to train scientists capable of making outstanding contributions to their discipline and able to apply their knowledge to the challenges facing the UK economy and the quality of life for its citizens. The DTP is designed to provide an environment and ethos that inspires students to: - take charge of their professional and personal development as scientists - achieve excellence in their research - achieve impact through application of their specialist knowledge outside of academe. To these ends, EnvEast will: recruit the highest calibre applicants from a diverse pool of talent available across the UK to tackle significant research questions using rigorous methods and innovative approaches; train, manage and mentor students within a multidisciplinary research and training environment to allow them to flourish as excellent independent researchers, and encourage students to develop as scientific and business leaders, entrepreneurs, communicators, educationalists and policy makers. The EnvEast rationale for partnership is science-led, building on existing collaborations where we already have strong links and complementarity and a proven track record of research and post graduate researcher training success. The research aims of EnvEast align with the goals of NERC, the UK government and the international scientific agenda being laid out by the new ICSU Future Earth programme. Each partner makes a distinctive contribution that will enhance the training environment offered and enrich the student experience. Those partners that meet CASE eligibility requirements can act as CASE partners, but EnvEast is also looking to form CASE partnerships across a wider network to maximise diversity and opportunity for our students. The partners in EnvEast have wide interests across much of the NERC science remit having supervised post graduate researchers in topics as diverse as solid earth geophysics, through ocean, atmosphere and climate science, to ecology, human perceptions of risk, sustainable development and the use of economic measures to value natural capital. The partners collectively have particular research strengths, reputation and synergies in the three key themes which are aligned to all five key priorities of the new NERC strategy and to RCUK's grand challenges of: (1) Global Uncertainties, (2) Living with Environmental Change, (3) Lifelong Health and Wellbeing, (4) Energy, and (5) Global Food Security. EnvEast partners have an excellent track record of doctoral training, exemplified by the HEI's existing BBSRC DTP (UEA) and two ESRC DTCs (Universities of Essex and Kent). EnvEast will take full advantage of the exceptional range of opportunities offered by its diverse contributors to offer PGR students an unparalleled opportunity for training in the environmental sciences that would be impossible for a single institution to offer. This enhanced training environment is intended to provide the UK's next generation of scientific and business leaders, educationalists and policy makers in the environmental sciences and as such will deliver:- 1. Research projects that take an interdisciplinary approach to address major contemporary challenges in the environmental sciences. 2. Cohort-based training that will develop a sustainable and supportive network of highly trained and influential peers. 3. High quality research outputs and enhance the employment potential of each student.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/L002582/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- DTP 2013
This training grant award has a total value of £5,841,655
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - DSA | Total - Other Costs | Total - Fees | Total - RTSG | Total - Student Stipend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £5,312 | £444,377 | £1,083,830 | £660,000 | £3,648,136 |
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