NERC Doctoral Training Partnership
ACCE: Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment
University of Sheffield, PhD project proposal (Oct 2016 entry)
Application deadline: 5:00 pm, 10th September 2015
Please email completed applications to: ACCE.DTP@sheffield.ac.uk
Please ensure you use the email subject heading “NERC DTP application”
Box sizes on this form can be expanded as necessary
Lead Supervisor[1]
Co-Supervisor
[1]
Other supervisors (if any)
Name:
Department:
Tel:
Email:
Name:
ACCE institute: Sheffield / York / Liverpool / CEH
Department:
CASE partner?: Yes/No [2]
Tel:
Email:
Name(s):
Organisation / university:
Department (if applicable):
CASE partner?: Yes/No [2]
Tel:
Email:
Project title
Project outline (2000
characters max, including
spaces)
Please describe the proposed
project using the headings:
Background, Objectives, Novelty
and Timeliness.
Part funding / links to other
projects (1000 characters max)
If part funding is agreed or sought
from other sources (including
CASE) please give brief details.
Please also indicate other project
link if relevant (e.g. links to your
existing NERC grants that may
benefit the PhD)
To which ACCE research foci is
the project most aligned
(please select one)
How does the project fit to the
ACCE research foci? (1000
characters max)
o
o
o
o
Securing ecosystem services and environmental resources
Predicting and mitigating impacts of climate change
Understanding the dynamics of biodiversity
Investigating mechanisms of evolutionary change: genes to communities
Please describe fit to NERC
remit (1000 characters max)
4 key relevant publications
from supervisors (last 5
years)[3]
Highlight any postgraduate coauthors
PhD supervision record[3]
a) Lead supervisor’s current
number of PhD students
b) Number of lead
supervisor’s students NOT
submitted on time from
those finishing in the last 5
years (includes taking
account of Leave of
Absence).
NERC grant income[3]
Lead supervisors’ current NERC
grants.
For each give:
A. Whether supervisor is PI,
co-I, or co-I that leads the
Sheffield component of a
split/consortium award
B. Start and end date
C. Project title
D. Amount of funding
Other grant income of
relevance[3]
Lead supervisors’ current other
grants of relevance.
For each give:
A. Whether supervisor is PI,
co-I, or co-I that leads the
Sheffield component of a
split/consortium award
B.
C.
D.
E.
Start and end date
Project title
Amount of funding
Funding body
Previous ACCE PhD students
I have been awarded an ACCE PhD before as:
Lead supervisor Yes/No
If yes, name of student and year started
Co-supervisor
Yes/No
If yes, name of student and year started
Notes:
[1] ACCE aims for 50% of its studentships to have lead and co-supervisors from different ACCE institutes
(Sheffield, York, Liverpool, CEH). All studentships should have at least 2 supervisors (whether from
different or the same institution).
Only 1 project proposal can be made per lead supervisor.
[2] ACCE has a target of 40% for CASE studentships. We expect that applications indicating “yes” here will
be able to formally establish a CASE partnership should the project be awarded a studentship. Only
indicate “yes” if you have had discussions with your partner and are confident of this. Projects where there
may be some possibility of CASE should indicate “no”.
[3] If the lead supervisor is a new member of staff, the co-supervisor should be a more experienced
colleague. In such cases, please highlight this in these sections and give the track record of the experienced
co-supervisor also.