The Yorkshire Environmental Sciences Doctoral Training Network (YES•DTN) is a collaboration between the University of Leeds and the University of York and provides funding and training for PhD students in the environmental sciences. We represent all science within the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) science remit at the University of Leeds and the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories in York.
YES•DTN is funded through a BBSRC-NERC Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA). We will recruit up to 26 fully funded PhD candidates per year.
The collaboration of 4 academic schools at the University of Leeds and the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories at the University of York allows YES•DTN to cover the full scope of environmental science research facing the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
We offer pre-defined PhD projects which can be hosted either wholly in one of our contributing departments, or more usually is a multi-disciplinary project across school, faculty and university boundaries.
Furthermore, we have strong links with a large range of partners from industry, government and charities. Partners are involved with the project throughout, including co-creation of the project and offer additional opportunities to the postgraduate researcher (PGR). Many of our projects are Collaborative Awards in Science and Engineering (CASE) with considerable industry engagement, including placement opportunities.
YES•DTN offers a wide range of transferable skills training throughout the PhD program. Our PGRs work in an inspiring research environment with experts in the field from two of the leading research intensive universities in environmental research.
More information about our training approach can be found on our training pages.
More information about our research environment can be found via the school/department information:
- School of Earth and Environment (University of Leeds)
- School of Biology (University of Leeds)
- School of Chemistry (University of Leeds)
- School of Geography (University of Leeds)
- Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory (University of York)
Please see the tabs for more information on our staff, partners, governance and how to contact us.