The DTP in Environmental Research is a 4-year D.Phil. programme which offers a world-class, multidisciplinary training environment for the next generation of researchers working at the frontiers of Environmental Research.

We encourage applications from students with a wide range of academic backgrounds, including Archaeology, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Computing, Geography, Geology, Mathematics,   Meteorology, Physics, Statistics, Zoology.

Our next application round begins in September 2014.

The DTP will offer a novel training environment across three broad science streams, each of which includes the influence of, and consequences for, human-environment interactions:

• Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolutionary Processes
  

This stream spans research into biological processes, systems and their interactions at scales ranging from the organism to the population in spheres ranging from human health to natural ecosystems, over all timescales.

• Physical Climate System
  

This stream spans research across all aspects of the Physical Climate System; present, past and future, with strong links to climate impacts and mitigation.

• Dynamic Earth, Surface Processes and Natural Hazards
  

This stream spans activities from theoretical seismology and isotope geochemistry to the analysis of natural resources, quantification of surface processes over all timescales, and geophysical hazards and risk.

The programme will be supported by an impressive list of partners, which is still growing.  To date these include:

• British Geological Survey
• BirdLife International
• Bond Group
• Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
• CAFOD
• Elsevier
• European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting
• European Space Agency
• Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
• The Met Office
• National Centre for Atmospheric Science
• National Centre for Earth Observation
• National Oceanography Centre
• Natural England
• Natural History Museum, London (Associate Partner)
• Operation Wallacea
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Satellite Catapult at Harwell.
• Science Oxford
• Shell

These Partners bring important perspectives to the DTP, in helping to define the problems that will need to be addressed by Environmental Researchers of the future, and by offering insights into, and experience of, the world beyond the laboratory. 

The Doctoral Training Partnership is a member of the Researcher Training Tool (formerly known as GAP) and fully supports the teaching and training of graduate students across divisions within the University of Oxford.

 

Note: In Oxford, the degree qualification commonly referred to as a  Ph.D. (Doctorate of Philosophy) is known as a D.Phil.