Critical Decade for Climate Change - Leverhulme Doctoral Scholars

With the next ten years seen as a profound and critical decade for climate change, UEA are launching a ground-breaking doctoral programme, with the aim of generating a cohort of 21st Century climate thought leaders with the interdisciplinary skills and agility needed to lead a paradigm shift in climate change responses.

Applications are now being accepted for 5 Critical Decade for Climate Change Leverhulme Doctoral Scholars studentships available at the University of East Anglia (UEA) for October 2021/22 entry.

The programme seeks to transcend disciplinary boundaries in tackling climate change, by training researchers to lead in generating and interpreting climate-relevant real-world data and understanding trends and drivers of change in our environment, while integrating agile use of new observations with storytelling and narratives that capture human dimensions in its richest form.

Projects cover a wide range of topics with supervisory teams involving a diverse mix of fields and perspectives from archaeologists and creative writers to climate scientists and international development scholars. All projects involve supervisors from more than one discipline.

The scholarships will help build on UEA’s already well-established reputation on climate change, as the home of the Climatic Research Unit and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. UEA’s School of Environmental Sciences is one of the longest established interdisciplinary institutions of its kind in Europe and was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2017 for ‘Advancing understanding and protection of the environment’. The studentships will be embedded within the new ClimateUEA initiative, which brings together a team of experts from natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

Closing date for applications midday (UK time) on Thursday 15th April 2021

Funding Conditions

• The award provides a 4-year studentship grant which covers tuition fees, a maintenance stipend (£15,285 per year in 2020/21) and a research and training support grant.
• The scholarship is open to UK and international applicants. In 2021/22, up to two studentships in the programme are expected to be available to international applicants (EU and non-EU).
• These projects are advertised on a full-time basis. Applicants who are unable to study full-time (e.g. due to disability, neurodivergence or caring responsibilities) may still apply, but any offer to study part-time will be conditional on the University receiving permission from the Leverhulme Trust to offer this.

Programme Directors

Professor Corinne Le Quéré, Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science and international advisor on climate policy and Dr Mark Tebboth, interdisciplinary social scientist and lecturer in the Environment and International Development.

Find out more

To view the projects and find further information on the selection and application process, please visit www.uea.ac.uk/climate/show-and-tell

Contact details

For further information relating to the Critical Decade for Climate Change Doctoral programme please visit www.uea.ac.uk/climate/show-and-tell or contact criticaldecade.lds@uea.ac.uk.