Natural Environment
Natural Environment
We are involved in a number of Doctoral Training Partnerships that provide studentship awards.
We offer fully funded PhD opportunities through:
- cohort training via our Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs)
- individual Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) awards
- industrial funded awards
ONE Planet Doctoral Training Partnership
ONE Planet offers a cohort-based Doctoral Training Partnership across both Newcastle and Northumbria universities.
Our internationally-recognised research excellence spans the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) science remit, including:
- Climate and Climate Change
- Earth System Processes
- Anthropocene
- Environmental Informatics
These awards include full home fees and an annual living allowance and a research training award fund.
Find out more via our ONE Planet website.
IAPETUS2 Doctoral Training Partnership
The IAPETUS2 partnership joins the leading research universities of Durham, Newcastle, Glasgow, Herriot Watt, St Andrews and Stirling together with the British Geological Survey and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, in a united approach to doctoral research and training for the next generation of leaders in the science of the natural environment.
IAPETUS2’s training and research is focused around a number of interdisciplinary clusters of internationally-recognised excellence, which spans the environmental and earth sciences:
- Global environmental change
- Geodynamics and earth resources
- Carbon and nutrient cycling
- Hazards, risks and resilience
- Biodiversity and ecosystem resources