Projects

2025 Studentships:

Applications for the first cohort of YES•DTN studentships are now closed. All projects listed below are for October 2025 entry. For more more information, please see our How to Apply page, candidate resources associated FAQs.

Equal Opportunities:

Within our programme, we are dedicated to diversifying our community. As part of our ongoing work to improve Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within the NERC Panorama DTP, we hope to be able to ringfence 10% of our interviews and at least 2 of our full DLA studentships for the following identified underrepresented groups in our PhD programmes: UK Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, those from a disadvantaged socio-economic background, and disabled people. More detail on eligibility and how to apply for the studentships will be available soon – please watch this space!

Important information:

Application deadline: 17:00 GMT on Wednesday 8 January 2025
Shortlisting: we aim to contact candidates who have been shortlisted for interview during the week commencing Monday 17 February 2025
Open day: all applicants invited to interview will have the opportunity to visit their host institution on an open day before the interviews (date TBA shortly)
Interviews: to be held over the weeks commencing Monday 3 March 2025 and Monday 10 March 2025

Projects marked CASE have the possibility becoming an industry-partnered project which includes an external industry partner with additional research training and support grant (RTSG) funding and a placement. Please see the NERC CASE page for more information.

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How polluted is our World? Investigating air pollutant long-range transport using state-of-the-art geostationary satellite constellations and chemistry transport modelling!

Theme(s): Air Quality, Atmosphere and Climate, Meteorology
Primary Supervisor: Richard Pope <r.j.pope@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)

Nutrient controls on climate and life

Theme(s): Chemistry of the Earth, Climate, Marine Biogeochemistry, Palaeoenvironments and Palaentology
Primary Supervisor: Caroline Peacock <C.L.Peacock@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)

Assessing the coupled geothermal potential of abandoned coalfields and stability of mine workings in the Yorkshire region

Theme(s): Climate, Climate Impacts
Primary Supervisor: Chrysothemis Paraskevopoulou <c.paraskevopoulou@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)

Predicting Abrupt Atlantic Ocean Circulation Changes

Theme(s): Climate, Glacial/Cryosphere
Primary Supervisor: Ruza Ivanovic <r.ivanovic@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)

The inner workigs of Slow Earthquakes and Slow Slip Events: New insights based on field, microstructural and -chemical evidence along with targeted experiments

Theme(s): Dynamic Earth & Natural Hazards, Tectonics, Volcanology and Solid Earth Geophysics
Primary Supervisor: Sandra Piazolo <s.piazolo@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)

Emissions and air quality impacts from use of aggressive surface cleaners indoors

Theme(s): Air Quality
Primary Supervisor: Terry Dillon <terry.dillon@york.ac.uk>
Institution: University of York (Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories)

The role of polymers in atmospheric ice formation

Theme(s): Atmosphere and Climate, Atmospheric Physics, Climate
Primary Supervisor: Thomas Whale <t.f.whale@leeds.ac.uk>
Institution: University of Leeds (School of Earth and Environment)

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Harnessing physics-informed machine learning for ice sheet dynamics

Understanding climate change in African rainfall via a new generation of high-resolution models

Modelling ice sheet response to abrupt climate changes to understand their role in Dansgaard–Oeschger events