Thanks to a £2.5m funding award the original HWU-led NERC CDT in Oil and Gas has been repurposed to face Geoscience and its place in the Low Carbon Energy Transition.

We will be enrolling new PhD students in September 2020 and the research studentship opportunities at each of participating HEIs will be announced at the Geological Society Careers Day to be held at Burlington House on Wednesday 19 February 2020. On the same day they will also be advertised on this website.

The 4 year CDT studentship will cover the UK standard tuition fee and stipend as set by UK Research & Innovation (the government-funded UK Research Councils body), as well as provide a Research Training and Support Grant (RTSG) of £20k over 4 years to successful applicants. Academic partners will also be providing matched-funding for these studentships and this may provide an opportunity for overseas candidates to apply. If you are an overseas applicant, please check first with the university or universities hosting projects you are interested in to find out whether the difference between the UK and overseas tuition fees is also funded.