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Doctoral landscape award investments

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10 April 2026

This page lists investments each UKRI research council has made through doctoral landscape awards, some of which may be currently recruiting or funding students.

Organisations seeking open or upcoming landscape award opportunities can search for opportunities. Prospective doctoral students should read our studentships guidance for students.

Landscape awards are one of two types of doctoral training investment under the collective talent funding scheme.

Some awards are allocated by a formula or algorithm to fund individual institutions. The following councils use a formula or algorithm to allocate landscape awards:

  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
  • Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (changed to using a funding formula from 2026)

Other councils award them competitively, as opportunities available to apply for. These are awarded to partnerships or consortiums of institutions.

Landscape awards allocated by funding formula

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Funding for:

  • 50 UK higher education institutions
  • 15 studentships each (three per year for five years)

Final cohort starts: October 2031.

AHRC doctoral landscape award allocations

In addition to doctoral landscape awards, AHRC is supporting seven regional hubs to provide cohort and development training activities to AHRC-funded students.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)

University Doctoral Landscape Awards allocations

Funding for:

  • more than 40 UK higher education institutions, from grants totalling £300 million
  • a minimum of three studentships per intake year, to support doctoral training and development in engineering and the physical sciences

Final cohort starts: end dates vary depending on start dates and extensions provided.

Further information:

Industrial Doctoral Landscape Awards (IDLA) allocations

Funding for:

  • studentship vouchers allocated to eligible industrial partners
  • four-year doctoral studentships that include an industry sponsor and an academic partner institution

Led by: awarded industrial partners

Final cohort starts: end dates vary depending on start dates and extensions provided.

Further information:

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Funding for:

  • more than 60 UK higher education institutions
  • approximately 220 studentships each year
  • studentships awarded for a minimum of three years and support doctoral training and development in STFC’s Core Programme

Led by: awarded institutions

Final cohort starts: studentships awarded annually. End dates vary depending on start dates.

STFC doctoral landscape award allocations

Higher education institutions’ doctoral funding webpages will hold details of any STFC doctoral landscape awards received.

Competition based landscape awards

The following lists of awards were allocated to organisations by competition. Opportunities were published on the UKRI Funding Services. They are usually given to successful consortiums of institutions or partnerships.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) landscape awards

AHRC collaborative doctoral partnerships (CDP)

Funding for:

  • non-higher education institutions (non-HEIs) with a proven track record in postgraduate research to host, support and co-supervise collaborative doctoral projects
  • a cohort of at least three doctoral studentships per year from 2024 through 2026, awarded for a three-year period

Final cohort starts: 2026.

AHRC’s collaborative doctoral partnerships (CDP)

AHRC doctoral training partnerships

Consortium for Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE)

Funding for:

  • studentships at the universities of East Anglia, Essex, Kent and Sussex, the Courtauld Institute, Goldsmiths, Birkbeck and SOAS
  • emerging fields of study and creative practice

Led by: the University of Sussex.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

CHASE website

London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP)

Funding for studentships for eight HEIs: King’s College London, Queen Mary, London School of Economics, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music, School of Advanced Study (University of London) and University College London

Led by: University College London.

Final cohort starts: 2025

LAHP website

Midlands4Cities

Funding for studentships for eight universities: Birmingham, Birmingham City, Coventry, De Montfort, Leicester, Nottingham, Nottingham Trent, and Warwick.

Led by: University of Nottingham.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

Midlands4Cities

North West Consortium (NWC)

Funding for studentships for seven universities: Keele, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan, Royal Northern College of Music, Salford

Led by: The University of Manchester.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

North West Consortium

Northern Bridge Consortium

Funding for studentships for seven universities: Queen’s, Ulster, Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teeside

Led by: Newcastle University

Final cohort starts: 2026.

Northern Bridge website

Open-Oxford-Cambridge

Funding for studentships for the universities of Cambridge and Oxford and the Open University.

Led by: University of Oxford.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

Open-Oxford-Cambridge website

Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for 200 studentships for seven Scottish universities, plus the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Led by: University of Glasgow.

Final cohort starts: 2025.

SGSAH DTP website

South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership (SWWDTP)

Funding for studentships for nine universities: Aberystwyth, Bath Spa, Bristol, Cardiff, Cranfield, Exeter, Reading, Southampton and the West of England.

Led by: University of Bristol.

Final cohort starts: 2025.

SWWDTP website

technē

Funding for:

  • studentships for nine universities: Brunel, Kingston, Loughborough, Royal Holloway, Brighton, Roehampton, University of the Arts London, Surrey, Westminster
  • innovative, interdisciplinary and creative approaches to research across the arts and humanities

Led by: Royal Holloway University.

Final cohort starts: 2025.

technē website

White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities

Funding for studentships for the universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York

Led by: University of York.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

White Rose website

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) landscape awards

Cambridge Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (CAMBioDTP)

Funding for:

  • standard, targeted and iCASE studentships for the University of Cambridge
  • collaborative research involving external partners: the Babraham Institute, National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), and the Wellcome Sanger Institute

Led by: University of Cambridge.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

CamBioDTP website

EastBio: East of Scotland Bioscience Partnership

Funding for:

  • studentships with nine HEIs: the universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Stirling and St Andrews, plus Scotland’s Rural College, the Moredun Research Institute, the James Hutton Institute and the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre
  • training with their partners Cool Farm Alliance, Scottish Policy and Research Exchange, In2ScienceUK and SULSA
  • access to expertise and research facilities across the institutions of the East of Scotland

Led by: University of Edinburgh.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

EastBio website

FoodBioSystems DTP

Funding for:

  • studentships with seven universities: Aberystwyth, Brunel, Cranfield, Lincoln, Queen’s University Belfast, Reading and Surrey
  • project themes span biology of animals and crops, food production, storage and manufacture, human nutrition, gut microbiome, health and wellbeing and more
  • training through collaboration with partners across agriculture, food manufacture, food retail, government and non-governmental organisations

Led by: University of Reading.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

FoodBioSystems website

Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Landscape Award (ILESLA)

BBSRC and NERC funding for:

  • studentships with the University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes University and the Open University, with Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron, Muon Source and the Pirbright Institute
  • research in five themes: climate and Earth; biodiversity and sustainability; animal and human health; rules of life; transformative technologies

Led by: University of Oxford.

Final cohort starts: 2024 for the Doctoral Training Partnership 2 and 2030 for the Doctoral Landscape award.

ILESLA website

London Interdisciplinary Biosciences Programme (LIDo)

Funding for:

  • studentships with eight HEIs: Birkbeck College, Kings College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Queen Mary University, Royal Holloway University, Royal Veterinary College, University College London and the University of Greenwich
  • focus on projects involving plant and physical sciences
  • training in bioscience and biotechnology research, with emphasis on advanced computational methods

Led by: University College London.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

LIDo DTP website

Midlands Integrative Bioscience Training Partnership (MIBTP)

Funding for:

  • studentships with six universities: Astron, Birmingham, Coventry, Harper Adams, Leicester, and Warwick
  • world-class interdisciplinary research across the life sciences, to boost the growing bioeconomy in the Midlands and across the UK

Led by: University of Warwick.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

MIBTP website

North East England Doctoral Landscape (NEEDL)

Funding for:

  • studentships with three universities: Durham, Northumbria and Teeside
  • focusing in part on computational and analytical skills development and science communication development

Led by: Newcastle University.

Final cohort starts in 2029.

NEEDL website

Northern Ireland Landscape partnership in AI for Biosciences

Funding for:

  • cross-disciplinary PhD projects at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Ulster
  • focus on AI-powered bioscience discovery

Led by: Queen’s University Belfast.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

NILab website

Northwest Doctoral Programme in Bioscience (NWDP)

Funding for:

  • studentships with the universities of Liverpool and Manchester
  • training and research opportunities with partners including Boots No 7, Unilever, Waters, Bionow and In2ScienceUK

Led by: The University of Manchester.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

NWDP website

NorthWestBio Doctoral Landscape Programme (NWB)

Funding for:

  • studentships for bioscience discovery training through the universities of Glasgow, Lancaster, Queen’s Belfast and Strathclyde
  • collaborative options involving their partners iBioIC, the Moredun Research Institute and the James Hutton Institute

Led by: University of Glasgow.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

NWB website

Norwich Research Park Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (NRPDTP)

Funding for:

  • studentships for a biosciences research training programme involving the Earlham Institute, the John Innes Centre, the Quadram Institute, the Sainsbury Laboratory and the University of East Anglia
  • use of state-of-the-art bioscience research facilities at Norwich Research Park

Led by: The John Innes Centre.

Final cohorts starts: 2029.

Norwich Research Park DTP website

Nottingham DLA Partnership

Funding for:

  • studentships with the universities of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent
  • training and research in sustainable agriculture and food research, bioscience for human health research, and biotechnology for sustainable growth research

Led by: University of Nottingham.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

Nottingham Biotechnology and Biological Sciences DTP website

Queen’s University Belfast and University of Aberdeen Research and Training in Life and Environmental Sciences (QUARTILES)

BBSRC-NERC Funding for:

  • studentships for the biological sciences and geosciences at the University of Aberdeen and Queen’s University Belfast
  • training and research opportunities with more than 50 partners across government, industry, NGO and policy development

Led by: University of Aberdeen.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

QUARTILES website

South West Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership (SWbio DTP)

Funding for:

  • studentships with the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter, plus Rothamsted Research
  • support and involvement of associate partners: Marine Biological Association, University of Plymouth, SETsquared Bristol, Swansea University, UCB Pharma and University of West of England
  • research in agriculture and environmental biosciences, engineering biology, and molecular mechanisms and pathways

Led by: University of Bristol.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

SWBio website

Wessex One Health Doctoral Landscape Programme

Funding for:

  • studentships with the universities of Exeter, Surrey and Sussex, plus the Animal and Plant Health Agency, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the Pirbright Institute
  • training in genomics, bioinformatics, applied AI

Led by: University of Surrey.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

Wessex One Health website

Yorkshire Bioscience Doctoral Training Partnership (YBDTP)

Funding for:

  • studentships with nine universities: Bradford, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Leeds Beckett University, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, Teeside and York
  • structured training in bioscience research, including core mathematical and data analysis skills

Led by: University of Leeds.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

YBDTP website

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) landscape awards

CAM-DTP

Funding for studentships each year with Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cambridge.

Led by: University of Cambridge.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

CAM-DTP website

Grand Union DTP

Funding for studentships each year with Brunel University London, the Open University and the University of Oxford.

Led by: University of Oxford.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

Grand Union DTP website

London Interdisciplinary Social Science DTP

Funding for studentships with Imperial College London, King’s College London and Queen Mary University London.

Led by: King’s College London.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

LISS DTP website

LSE ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for studentships each year with the London School of Economics.

Led by: London School of Economics.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

LSE ESRC DTP website

Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP

Funding for studentships with eight universities: Aston, Birmingham, De Montfort, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham and Nottingham Trent.

Led by: University of Warwick.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP

North West Social Science DTP

Funding for studentships in the social sciences with the universities of Keele, Lancashire, Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester.

Led by: University of Liverpool.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

North West Social Science DTP website

Northern Ireland and North East (NINE) DTP

Funding for studentships with seven universities: Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Queen’s University Belfast, Sunderland, Teeside and Ulster.

Led by: Durham University

Final cohort starts: 2028

NINE DTP website

Scottish Graduate School of Social Science DTP

Funding for studentships with 14 Scottish HEIs, including Scotland’s Rural College and the following universities: Aberdeen, Abertay, Dundee, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier, Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian, Heriot-Watt, Highlands and Islands, St Andrews, Stirling, Strathclyde and the West of Scotland.

Led by: The University of Edinburgh.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

SGSSS DTP website

South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for studentships with the universities of Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth and Southampton.

Led by: University of Southampton

Final cohort start: 2028.

South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership website

South and East Network for Social Sciences (SENSS) DTP

Funding for studentships with eight universities: City St George’s, Cranfield, East Anglia, Essex, Goldsmiths, Lincoln, Middlesex and Roehampton.

Led by: University of Essex.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

SENSS website

South East Doctoral Training Arc (SEDarc) DTP

Funding for studentships with six universities: Kent, Kingston, Reading, Royal Holloway, Surrey and Sussex.

Led by: Royal Holloway, University of London.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

SEDarc website

South West Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for studentships with eight universities: Bath, Bath Spa, Bournemouth, Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth, Plymouth Marjon and West of England.

Led by: University of Bristol.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

South West DTP website

UCL, Bloomsbury and East London (UBEL) DTP

Funding for studentships with six HEIs: Birkbeck, University of London; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, SOAS and the universities of East London and Greenwich.

Led by: University College London.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

UBEL DTP website

Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) / Ysgol Graddedigion Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol Cymru (YGGCC)

Funding for studentships with seven core universities: Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Cardiff Metropolitan, Gloucester, South Wales and Swansea.

Led by: Cardiff University.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

WGSSS website

White Rose Social Sciences DTP

Funding for studentships for seven universities: Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Manchester Metropolitan, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam and York.

Led by: University of Sheffield.

Final cohort starts: 2028.

White Rose DTP website

Medical Research Council (MRC) landscape awards

GW4 BioMed MRC DTP

Funding for:

  • studentships with four universities: Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter
  • research in the following themes: infection, immunity antimicrobial resistance and repair; neuroscience and mental health; population health sciences

Led by: Cardiff University.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

GW4 website

Institute of Cancer Research DTP

Funding for:

  • studentships with the Institute of Cancer Research
  • research in the following themes: genome stability and DNA damage response; advanced therapeutics; radiation oncology and biology

Led by: Institute of Cancer Research.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

Institute of Cancer Research DTP

Integrated Midlands Partnership for Biomedical Training (IMPACT)

Funding for:

  • studentships with universities of Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham
  • research in four themes: metabolic and infectious disease; cancer; inflammatory conditions and respiratory disease; psychological disorders

Led by: University of Birmingham.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

IMPACT website

King’s College London Doctoral Training Partnership in Biomedical Sciences

Funding for:

  • studentships at King’s College London
  • research in the following themes: cells, molecules and the basis of health and disease; neuroscience and mental health; biomedical engineering and medical imaging

Led by: King’s College London.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

KCL MRC DTP website

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Lancaster University MRC CASE and DTP

Funding for:

  • studentships with LTSM and Lancaster University
  • translational and quantitative research with a focus on global health

Led by: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

LSTM CASE and DTP website

MRC DiMeN Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for:

  • studentships with five universities: Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield and York
  • research in three themes: cancer; infection and global health; multimorbidity, frailty and disease of aging

Led by: University of Sheffield.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

DiMeN DTP website

MRC DTP Biomed

Funding for:

  • studentships with Queen Mary University and University of Southampton
  • research in three themes: cancer, neurological and inflammatory disease; infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance; global health

Led by: University of Southampton.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

MRC DTP Biomed website

MRC DTP in Precision Medicine

Funding for:

  • studentships with universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow
  • research in precision medicine

Led by: University of Edinburgh.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

Precision Medicine DTP website

MRC London Intercollegiate Doctoral Training Partnership Studentships

Funding for:

  • studentships with City St George’s, University of London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • research in the following themes: global health; health data science; translational and implementation; infectious disease

Led by: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

MRC London Intercollegiate DTP website

MultiSci MRC DTP

Funding for:

  • studentships at Imperial College London
  • research on infections and disease, understanding disease mechanisms in humans, and using big data to improve health

Led by: Imperial College London.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

MultiSci website

Oxford-MRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for:

  • studentships with the University of Oxford
  • research in four themes: infection and immunology; neuroscience; cancer; population health, genomics and genes

Led by: University of Oxford.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

Oxford-MRC DTP website

Trials Methodology Research Partnership (TMRP) DTP

Funding for:

  • studentships with the Institute of Cancer Research and nine universities: Aberdeen, Bangor, Birmingham, Cambridge, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Plymouth, Queen Mary and University College London
  • research in medical trials methodology

Led by: University of Liverpool.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

TMRP DTP website

UCL Birkbeck MRC DTP

Funding for:

  • studentships with University College London and Birkbeck
  • research in three themes: fundamental mechanisms of disease; neuroscience and mental health; experimental and translational medicine

Led by: University College London.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

UCL Birkbeck MRC DTP website

UEA Microbes, Microbiomes and Bioinformatics (MMB) programme

Funding for:

  • studentships with the University of East Anglia, Norwich
  • research in three themes: microbe and microbiome; antimicrobial resistance and drug discovery; ‘the One-Health approach’

Led by: University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

UEA MMB website

University of Cambridge MRC Doctoral Training Programme iCASE PhD Studentships

Funding for:

  • studentships with the University of Cambridge
  • research in four themes: neuroscience and mental health; infections and immunity; molecular and cellular mechanisms of disease; data science for health

Led by: University of Cambridge.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

MRC DTP iCASE website

The University of Manchester MRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for:

  • studentships with the The University of Manchester
  • research in six themes: cancer ; infection, immunity, inflammation and repair; neuroscience and mental health; applied health; data science; molecular, cellular and developmental biology

Led by: The University of Manchester.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

University of Manchester MRC DTP website

Warwick Medical School MRC Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for:

  • studentships with Warwick Medical School
  • research in the molecular basis of human disease, combating infectious disease, and precision diagnostics and data analysis

Led by: University of Warwick.

Final cohort starts: 2026.

WMS MRC DTP website

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) landscape awards

See BBSRC listings for the following landscape award investments that NERC co-funds:

  • Interdisciplinary Life and Environmental Science Landscape Award (ILESLA)
  • Queen’s University Belfast and University of Aberdeen Research and Training in Life and Environment Sciences (QUARTILES)

Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment (ACCE) doctoral training partnership

Funding for studentships involving the universities of Liverpool, Sheffield and York, plus the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the National History Museum.

Led by: University of Sheffield.

Final cohort starts: 2024.

ACCE DTP website

Addressing the Challenges of Changing Environments (ACCE+) doctoral landscape award

Funding for studentships with the universities of Liverpool, Sheffield and York, plus the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the Natural History Museum and the National Oceanography Centre.

Led by: University of Liverpool.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

ACCE+ DLA website

Advanced Research and Innovation in Environmental Sciences (ARIES) DTP2 and doctoral landscape award

Funding for studentships with five universities: East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Plymouth and Royal Holloway.

Led by: University of East Anglia.

Final cohort starts: 2024 for the doctoral training partnership 2, 2029 for the doctoral landscape award.

ARIES DTP website

Cambridge Climate, Life and Earth (C-CLEAR) Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for studentships with the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey.

Led by: University of Cambridge.

Final cohort starts: 2024.

C-CLEAR DTP website

Cambridge Research Experience and Advanced Training for Environmental Scientists (CREATES) Doctoral Landscape Award

Funding for studentships with the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey.

Led by: University of Cambridge.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

CREATES DLA website

Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA2 DTP, CENTA3 doctoral landscape award)

Funding for doctoral training partnership and doctoral landscape award studentships with six universities – Birmingham, Cranfield, Leicester, Loughborough, the Open University and Warwick. Plus the British Geological Survey, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the National Centre for Earth Observation (doctoral landscape award only).

Led by: University of Birmingham.

Final cohort starts: 2024 for the doctoral training partnership 2, 2029 for the doctoral landscape award.

CENTA DTP website

CROCUS: Climate System and Biodiversity Science

Funding for studentships with the universities of Reading and Swansea, with the British Geological Survey, Institute of Zoology, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, National Centre for Earth Observation, National Oceanography Centre, Natural History Museum, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew and UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

Led by: University of Reading.

Final cohorts starts: 2029.

CROCUS website

E4 and E5 – Edinburgh Earth and Environment doctoral training

Funding for studentships with The University of Edinburgh and Scotland’s Rural College, with the Scottish Association for Marine Science.

Led by: The University of Edinburgh.

Final cohort starts: E4: 2024 (doctoral training partnership 2), E5: 2029 (doctoral landscape award)

E4 and E5 DTP website

Envision – Developing next generation leaders in environmental science

Funding for studentships with the universities of Bangor, Lancaster and Nottingham, plus the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the British Geographical Survey and Rothamsted Research.

Led by: Lancaster University.

Final cohort starts: 2025.

Envision DTP website

ExaGeo-Exascale Computing for Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Solutions

Funding for studentships with the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Lancaster.

Led by: University of Glasgow.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

ExaGEO website

GW4+ doctoral training partnership

Funding for studentships with the universities of Bath, Bristol, and Exeter and Cardiff University, plus the British Antarctic Survey, British Geological Survey, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the Natural History Museum and Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

Led by: University of Bristol.

Final cohort starts: 2024 (doctoral training partnership 2), 2029 (doctoral landscape award).

GW4+ DTP website

IAPETUS2 doctoral training partnership and IAPETUS doctoral landscape award

Funding for studentships with the universities of Durham, Glasgow, Heriot Watt, Newcastle, St Andrews and Stirling, together with the British Antarctic Survey, British Geological Survey and the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

Led by: Durham University.

Final cohort starts: 2024 (doctoral training partnership 2), 2029 (doctoral landscape award).

IAPETUS website

IGNITE Doctoral Landscape Award

Funding for studentships with the University of Southampton, with the British Antarctic Survey, Marine Biological Association, National Oceanography Centre and Natural History Museum.

Led by: University of Southampton.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

IGNITE DLA website

Interdisciplinary Southampton Partnership for Investigators Researching the Environment (INSPIRE)

Funding for studentships with the University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, British Antarctic Survey, Natural History Museum and Marine Biological Association.

Led by: University of Southampton.

Final cohort starts: 2024.

INSPIRE DTP website

London NERC Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for studentships with six universities – Birkbeck, Brunel, King’s College, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway and UCL, plus the Institute of Zoology and the Natural History Museum.

Led by: University College London.

Final cohort starts: 2024.

London NERC DTP website

ONE Planet Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for studentships with Newcastle University and Northumbria University.

Led by: Newcastle University.

Final cohort starts: 2025.

ONE Planet DTP website

Panorama Doctoral Training Partnership

Funding for studentships with the universities of Leeds, Hull and York.

Led by: University of Leeds.

Final cohort starts: 2024.

Panorama DTP website

Queen’s University Belfast and Aberdeen Research and Training (QUADRAT)

Funding for studentships with the University of Aberdeen and Queen’s University Belfast.

Led by: University of Aberdeen.

Final cohort starts: 2024.

QUADRAT DTP website

SCENARIO – Postgraduate Centre in the Science of the Environment

Funding for studentships with the University of Reading and the University of Surrey, with the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the British Geological Survey and the Institute of Zoology.

Led by: University of Reading.

Final cohort starts: 2025.

SCENARIO DTP website

Scottish Universities Partnership for Environmental Research (SUPER)

Funding for studentships with eight universities: Aberdeen, Edinburgh Napier, Heriot Watt, Highlands and Islands, St Andrews, Stirling, Strathclyde and the University of the West of Scotland.

Led by: University of St Andrews.

Final cohort starts: 2024.

SUPER DTP website

Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet (SSCP)

Funding for studentships with Imperial College London and the Grantham Institute.

Led by: Imperial College London.

Final cohort starts: 2025.

SSCP DTP website

Training, Research & Equity in Environmental Sciences (TREES)

Funding for studentships with seven universities – Birkbeck, Brunel, King’s College London, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway and University College London, with Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, Natural History Museum and the Institute of Zoology.

Led by: University College London.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

TREES website

Yorkshire Environmental Sciences (YES) Doctoral Training Network

Funding for studentships with the universities of Leeds and York.

Led by: University of Leeds.

Final cohort starts: 2029.

YES DTN website

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