Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/R009783/1
NERC Industrial Strategy studentship allocation
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor A Cundy, University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Grant held at:
- University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Complexity Science
- Population Ecology
- Coastal & Waterway Engineering
- Carbon Capture & Storage
- Intelligent Measurement Sys.
- Abstract:
- The SPITFIRE DTP is distinctive because: 1) It brings together ~550 PhD supervisors from 10 leading science and engineering groups within the University of Southampton (UoS) and nine major UK research organisations based in the south of England, the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Marine Biological Association (MBA), Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS), Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), Natural History Museum (NHM), & HR Wallingford (HRW), with over 30 Industrial partners, ~35 premier international universities and research centres, and 7 Science Policy and Development partners. 2) We build on the foundation of the Graduate School of the National Oceanography Centre Southampton (GSNOCS) - a long-standing, successful, collaboration between co-located scientists of the UoS and NERC's National OceanographyCentre (NOC). Starting from this model, with its track record of excellence in graduate research, training and development, SPITFIRE will be an innovative, deliberately broad and multidisciplinary partnership. Students will be trained to tackle challenges across NERC's headline priorities (Environmental Hazards, Environmental Change, and Natural Resource Management) and emerge equipped to lead the search for solutions to major societal problems. Our aims are: (1) To produce effective scientists for the 21st century by skilling them to exploit and develop new technologies that are revolutionising environmental research and are revealing hitherto unknown connections in the environment that provide quantitative estimates of risk and better inform decision making (e.g., autonomous vehicles and sensors, analysis of datasets so large and complex that they overwhelm traditional approaches). (2) To broaden individual horizons, build a cohesive student community and enable students to experience research in world-class national and international scientific institutions. (3) To provide industrial/commercial internship and Science Policy placement opportunities with our Industrial, CASE and Policy partners that will enhance entrepreneurship, business, policy development and public engagement with science skills thus benefitting the research and career prospects of our students.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/R009783/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- NPIF Allocation
This training grant award has a total value of £398,255
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Other Costs | Total - Fees | Total - Student Stipend | Total - RTSG |
|---|---|---|---|
| £44,265 | £69,365 | £240,628 | £44,000 |
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