Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/S007431/1
IAPETUS2: Delivering excellence in PhD training across the spectrum of environmental science
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor PA Stephens, Durham University, Vice Chancellor's Office
- Grant held at:
- Durham University, Vice Chancellor's Office
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Climate & Climate Change
- Community Ecology
- Geohazards
- Tectonic Processes
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Abstract:
- IAPETUS2 will deliver excellence in doctoral training for the environmental scientists of the future. It covers a very wide range of the environmental sciences, grouped into five complementary research and training themes: - Climate Environmental Change - Geodynamics-Geochemistry-Resources - Biogeochemical Cycles - Hazards: processes-Risk-Resilience - Evolution-Biodiversity-Ecosystems To deliver this training, we have an interdisciplinary team of experts, providing more than 300 potential supervisors who span the environmental sciences. They will work within a cooperative framework that has strong links both within and between themes. This framework builds on our existing IAPETUS1 partnership, and on some of the UK's most successful and dynamic NERC-supported multidisciplinary, long-term collaborative initiatives, created by members of our partnership. The capacity of IAPETUS1 (Durham, Newcastle, Glasgow, St Andrews, Stirling, British Geological Survey and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) has been expanded in IAPETUS2 to include the British Antarctic Survey, the Institute of Life and Earth Sciences and Lyell Centre at Heriot-Watt University, biosciences at Glasgow and St Andrews University, as well as geographical sciences at the latter. IAPETUS2 will capitalize on this breadth and demonstrable track record of research (#239M in total since 2014 from across the environmental science sector including NERC and a diverse array of industry, Trust, Foundation and other RC support), together with an environment of outstanding training (87 IAPETUS1 studentships since 2014), to attract the highest calibre doctoral students and shape their development into future leaders in academia, industry, public policy and NGOs. In collaboration with a diverse range of end-user organizations, our training will be delivered such that students will attain the skills necessary to work across and lead future research in the environmental sciences. Because training using the Vitae Framework involves much more than just the specific research skills to produce a piece of scientific research, all students in IAPETUS2 will be enrolled to receive a Postgraduate Certificate in Environmental Methods to demonstrate and recognize the importance of this training. All students will also be trained in entrepreneurial skills by the provision of an externally accredited "Mini-MBA". We will increasingly use online means of providing training, in order to maintain further the sense of belonging to a cohort across the partnership, and between the different years of study. Our existing placement scheme will be further expanded to allow further input from end-users. Management of the training programme will also strongly involve input from students and end-users as well as the team from the partner institutions. We are also conscious of the health and well-being of our students, which we will support both by ensuring a balance in what is required for the training, and by ongoing development of support mechanisms. The diverse scientific, geographical and socio-political settings of IAPETUS2 Partner institutions is ideal for fostering students to become expert in communicating within and across sectors, and to translate their research for policy and public understanding. IAPETUS2 has the expertise to create the intellectual environment and inspire the innovation needed to transform science into economic outcomes that span the needs and strategic goals of NERC, BEIS and end-user organizations. Our aim is to ensure that our research transects discipline boundaries and produces the future graduates who will engage proactively in addressing the grand scientific challenges of the coming decades.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/S007431/1
- Grant Stage:
- Awaiting Event/Action
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training (R)
- Grant Status:
- Active
- Programme:
- DTP2
This training grant award has a total value of £11,333,834
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - DSA | Total - Other Costs | Total - Fees | Total - Student Stipend | Total - RTSG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £16,259 | £505,735 | £1,971,227 | £7,696,613 | £1,144,000 |
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