Key facts
- Deadline
- Wednesday 8 January 2025
- Funding start date
- Wednesday 1 October 2025
- Number of funding places
- Multiple opportunities available
- Country eligibility
- International (open to all nationalities, including the UK)
- Source of funding
- Research council
- Key staff
- Professor Sebastian Rost
- Schools
- School of Biology, School of Chemistry, School of Earth and Environment, School of Geography
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. <br /> <br /> The Yorkshire Environmental Sciences Doctoral Training Network (YES.DTN) is funded through a BBSRC-NERC Doctoral Landscape Award (DLA). We will recruit up to 26 fully funded PhD candidates per year.
<p>YES.DTN is a collaboration of 4 academic schools at the <a href="https://leeds.ac.uk/">University of Leeds</a> and the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories at the <a href="http://york.ac.uk/">University of York</a>. We offer associate memberships both at the University of York and the University of Leeds. YES.DTN therefore covers the full scope of environmental science research facing the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).</p> <p>We offer <strong><a href="https://yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/">pre-defined PhD projects</a></strong> which can be hosted either wholly in one of our contributing departments, or is multi-disciplinary across school, faculty and university boundaries. We collaborate with a large range of partners from industry, government and charities. Partners are involved with the project throughout 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>
<p><strong>The deadline for both parts of the application is Wednesday 8<sup>th</sup> January 2025 at 17:00 (UK time)</strong>. For more information on how to apply, please see the <a href="https://yes-dtn.ac.uk/application-information/">YES.DTN website</a>. </p> <p>If English is not your first language, you must provide evidence that you meet the University's minimum English language requirements (below).</p> <p><em>As an international research-intensive university, we welcome students from all walks of life and from across the world. We foster an inclusive environment where all can flourish and prosper, and we are proud of our strong commitment to student education. Across all Faculties we are dedicated to diversifying our community and we welcome the unique contributions that individuals can bring, and particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to Black, Asian, people who belong to a minority ethnic community, people who identify as LGBT+ and people with disabilities. Applicants will always be selected based on merit and ability.</em></p>
Applicants to research degree programmes should normally have at least a first class or an upper second class British Bachelors Honours degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate discipline. Applicants who are uncertain about the requirements should contact the supervisor for their chosen project.
The minimum English language entry requirement for research postgraduate research study is an IELTS of 6.0 overall with at least 5.5 in each component (reading, writing, listening and speaking) or equivalent. The test must be dated within two years of the start date of the course in order to be valid. Some schools and faculties have a higher requirement.
<p>For further information please contact the YES.DTN team: <a href="mailto:yes-dtn@leeds.ac.uk">yes-dtn@leeds.ac.uk</a>.</p>