Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/S007512/1
ONE Planet - NERC DTP2
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor H Fowler, Newcastle University, Sch of Engineering
- Grant held at:
- Newcastle University, Sch of Engineering
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Freshwater
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Climate & Climate Change
- Palaeoenvironments
- Regional & Extreme Weather
- Geohazards
- Earth Surface Processes
- Abstract:
- Our vision is to provide a training environment that develops and fosters innovative, transformative ways of working to produce independent research scientists and future leaders who can analyse and design the sustainable transdisciplinary responses needed to address intensifying global change. Our approach is centred on transdisciplinarity - "transcending the traditional boundaries of natural and social sciences" and our Steering Committee is composed of natural and social scientists as well as our industrial partners. ONE Planet offers a pioneering cohort-based doctoral training partnership at Newcastle (NCL) and Northumbria (UNN) Universities within Newcastle upon Tyne. ONE Planet scientists provide global leadership and complementary research excellence in Climate Change, Earth Systems Processes, Environmental Informatics and the Anthropocene. The 'Anthropocene' encapsulates the idea that we are living in a new global epoch in which human and natural systems are inextricably linked; formerly resilient systems have been pushed into altered and degraded states, with humanity as the key agent in planetary-scale change. Our cohortbased transdisciplinary training environment is key to building the science base for adaptation and societal resilience in line with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) such that well-founded decisions on risk and opportunity can inform smarter governance structures and regulatory requirements. ONE Planet benefits from close proximity of NCL and UNN, close links with local business, government and industry, and access to state-of-the-art training facilities within the city. ONE Planet will use training in "big data" analytics, state-of-the-art statistical interpretation, environmental informatics and computing in the world-leading Alan Turing Institute for environmental future-proofing in a world of growing uncertainty. We put particular emphasis on extreme events, as highlighted by HM Government (2017) in their 25 year plan. NCL hosts two Chief Scientific Advisors with throughput to the NCL Policy Academy which aims to support all staff in informing policy which affects contemporary societal issues through knowledge exchange and communication of our research. Ensuring that students are trained in key skills and the requisite knowledge base means that ONE Planet partners span industry, regulatory authorities to government with dedicated placements aligned with the Government's Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund - aiming to bring together the UK's world-leading research with business - clean growth and the knowledge economy. ONE Planet will operate on the following principles: 1) To support scientifically-excellent doctoral candidates, aligned to our research strengths, and provide a world-leading transdisciplinary research training environment. 2) To work with our partners to design and conduct collaborative frontier research, training talented researchers in new skills for high impact and end-user relevance and focus, including the SDGs. 3) To ensure all studentships are multidisciplinary, encompass one core Climate or Anthropocene activity and overlap at least one other Theme (see Fig. 1), within a transdisciplinary paradigm. 4) To place pooled and peer-to-peer learning at the core of the studentship and DTP programme. 5) To exploit state-of-the-art North East-based research facilities and observatories where students and end-users can address field and informatics training needs and gain real world insights.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/S007512/1
- Grant Stage:
- Awaiting Event/Action
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training (R)
- Grant Status:
- Active
- Programme:
- DTP2
This training grant award has a total value of £8,282,314
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - DSA | Total - Other Costs | Total - Fees | Total - RTSG | Total - Student Stipend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £5,086 | £288,661 | £1,458,792 | £847,000 | £5,682,775 |
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