Edinburgh Earth and Environment Doctoral Training Partnership
The Edinburgh Earth and Environment Doctoral Training Partnership (E3) seeks to attract and enable the brightest PhD students to address environmental challenges, providing flexible training in a multidisciplinary setting.
The initiative is being led by Professor Peter Nienow in the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences, and brings together 28 partners from research, education, policy and industry sectors to deliver a programme of PhD training and research.
How to apply
There will be up to 21 fully-funded scholarships. Recruitment is now open (please see available projects under the ‘Browse Projects’ tab above) and the first intake of students will be in September 2014.
E3 is one of 15 Doctoral Training Partnership (DTPs) funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The programme will provide training for at least 240 new PhD students across the UK, every year for the next five years, with the opportunity for partners to co-fund boosting the number of studentships available.
Each DTP will create a strong and active community of students that are able – and encouraged – to integrate, work, and learn together. These students will receive in-depth, advanced research training, as well as training in the professional and transferable skills essential in today’s economy.
Partnership with industry
An integral element of the NERC DTP programme is that a minimum of 30% of the students will work with and undertake research projects with a non-academic partner. These CASE studentships will involve a 3 to 18 month placement in a workplace outside the academic environment thereby providing students with access to training, facilities and expertise not available in an academic setting alone.
