IAPETUS Doctoral Training Partnership (NERC)

The University of St Andrews is a partner in IAPETUS Doctoral Training Partnership. This partnership joins the leading research universities of Durham, Glasgow, Newcastle, St Andrews and Stirling, together with the British Geological Survey and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, in a united approach to doctoral research and training the next generation of leaders in the science of the natural environment. IAPETUS is a multidisciplinary Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), funded and accredited by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), offering PhD students a world-class environment in which to study. IAPETUS' training and research is focused around a number of interdisciplinary clusters of internationally-recognised excellence, which spans the environmental and Earth sciences including global environmental change, geodynamics and Earth resources, carbon and nutrient cycling, hazards, risks and resilience, and biodiversity and ecosystem resources. Studentships are for between three and four years, depending on the doctoral research project and provide full UKRI stipend and fees. Collaboration and knowledge exchange with industry, policy-makers and other non-academic organisations is at the heart of their activities, with over 30% of studentships being CASE awards and over 35 external partners supporting IAPETUS's research.