Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/L002590/1
IAPETUS : Postgraduate Environmental Training NexUS : transforming doctoral students into the next generation leaders in science, industry and policy
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor J Wainwright, Durham University, Vice Chancellor's Office
- Grant held at:
- Durham University, Vice Chancellor's Office
- Science Area:
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- None
- Abstract:
- VISION Named IAPETUS after the ancient ocean that once separated Northern England and Scotland, IAPETUS is also the son of Gaia and father of Atlas therefore a fitting name for partnership that joins leading research institutions in a united approach to doctoral training in the Earth and environmental sciences. The DTP draws together organisations with distinctive strengths and excellent infrastructure, technology and expertise, to offer a broad range of doctoral opportunities that span NERC-supported research. In partnership, we will: (i) provide DTP students with excellent supervisory expertise and training in five key thematic areas: Global Environmental Change, Geodynamics & Earth Resources, Carbon & nutrient cycling, Hazards, Risk & Resilience, and, Biological Resources & Ecosystems; (ii) support scientifically-excellent doctoral projects, closely aligned to research strengths and recruit the best possible students; (iii) supervise jointly between two (or more) partners as appropriate; (iv) pool our expertise and experience to provide a world-leading research training environment for students; (iv) provide reciprocal rights of access to the extensive and often world-leading array of technologies, facilities, equipment and expertise for our students across the partnership; (v) govern the DTP as a multiorganisation, multi-site partnership of equals. STRATEGY & RATIONALE Universities of Durham, Glasgow (inc. SUERC), Newcastle, St Andrews and Stirling, and NERC Centres - British Geological Survey and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology have identified five thematic areas of research strength where we cluster naturally to provide an excellent environment for doctoral research: Global Environmental Change, Geodynamics & Earth Resources, Carbon & nutrient cycling, Hazards, Risk & Resilience, and, Biological Resources & Ecosystems. For each theme the partners complement each other and we can evidence a high level of success with NERC grants (many jointly), supervision of a critical mass of students, a track-record of successful thesis submission & completion, and high impact publications. As a partnership we host an unrivalled level of UK expertise in a wide range of research methods that include: isotope geosciences (particularly cosmogenic, Ar, and micro-sampling for Sr, C & O); Earth observation (particularly InSAR, global-scale geodetic analysis of GNSS, GRACE and GOCE data, where we host one of only three GNSS Service Associate Analysis Centres in the world); palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (particularly ice sheet modelling, sea-level change analysis, use of proxy records); geomicrobiology (the application of molecular biological techniques to the Earth system, molecular genetics). The Partnership combines world-leading infrastructure and expertise with high-quality training and a network of CASE partners, including leading national and international research centres, industry, government agencies and environmental charities. Our graduates will be well-equipped to tackle major environmental questions armed with the latest range of discipline-specific skills and competences in fieldwork, numerical analysis and environmental modelling. Our embedded approach to facilitating multidisciplinary awareness is designed to promote better strategies for tackling environmental problems that impact widely on society and the economy. The IAPETUS DTP will be benchmarked against the highest standards internationally to attract excellent students and provide high-quality training in skills that cross multiple disciplines. We will achieve our vision by running open competitions to attract prospective students into our five distinctive research themes, and will use CASE partners and alumni to provide targeted careers advice, broker placements and internships and promote timely submission and successful completion.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/L002590/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- DTP 2013
This training grant award has a total value of £5,521,147
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - DSA | Total - Other Costs | Total - Fees | Total - Student Stipend | Total - RTSG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £964 | £108,431 | £1,086,988 | £3,664,763 | £660,000 |
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