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About the project

• Developing multiple cohorts of scientists with advanced skills and knowledge, multidisciplinary outlooks, and substantial potential to operate successfully across all postgraduate career options.
• Assembling a diverse and integrated training partnership that enables our PGRs to address priority topics in environmental sciences through cutting-edge and world-leading research.
• Training all of our PGRs to understand modern methods of data management, interrogation, analysis, and presentation; from bioinformatics to artificial intelligence.
• Ensuring our graduates engage with the interfaces between environmental science and societal needs by growing their ability to achieve non-academic impact and effective public engagement.

Applications for 2027/28 are now open.

• Applications for 2027/28 are now open.: The closing date for applications is 16 December 2026 at 23:59 GMT.
• A scattered deep sea: global biodiversity change and processes across hydrothermal vents
• Human impacts on the role of beaches as fish nurseries: advancing tools to measure energy use and infer habitat quality
• Pollution in a warming world: emerging contaminants and heatwaves in estuarine ecosystems
• Regulating for resilience: developing a multi-level physiological framework for chemical risk assessment under climate change
• Too hot to handle? Seaweed-pathogen interactions in a climate change world
• Double whammy? The combined effects of microplastics and marine heatwaves on digestive physiology and performance in marine invertebrates
• The role of thermal tolerance and secondary metabolites in the increasing dominance of Indo-Pacific soft corals

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Revealing the Regolith: the critical role of the subsurface in co-seismic shallow landsliding
• Nature recovery in the European palaeoecological record
• Finding the faults that matter: understanding structural controls on critical metals and geothermal energy in SW Britain (CASE project with Cornish Lithium)
• Rockfall at the roof of Europe: monitoring landscape instability in the deglaciating Mont Blanc massif
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• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
• University of East Anglia
• Royal Holloway University of London
• University of Essex
• University of Kent
• University of Plymouth

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