Developing next generation leaders in environmental science
Having always had an interest in working for the Civil Service, I decided to apply for a UKRI Policy Placement with Defra. I was extremely happy to find out I was successful, and I was placed in the Air Quality and Industrial Emissions (AQIE) team from June to September 2022. I regularly travelled to the […]
Image 1. Mary (placement student) stood on a freshly burnt site, surrounded by ash and an unburnt tree, measuring soil respiration using an IRGA and chamber As part of my ENVISION DTP PhD, I was lucky enough to undertake an internship in Kruger National Park. Working within Scientific Services, I worked with the Fire and […]
Nia Jones: UKRI Policy Placement with Defra In late 2021 I applied for a UKRI Policy Placement with Defra and was lucky enough to be placed within the Climate Adaptation Evidence team from February to April 2022. Despite the emerging Omicron variant of COVID causing further lockdowns, like a lot of other Defra employees […]
Earlier this year I had the wonderful opportunity to do a 3-month UKRI Policy Internship at Senedd Research. The bursary provided by UKRI meant I was able to relocate to Cardiff for the duration of the placement, meaning I could work in the office, meet my colleagues face-to-face and attend First Ministers Questions and a […]
Figure 1 Snow shoeing with some of Naomi’s research group During the final year of my PhD I completed a research placement at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, as part of the UKRI UK-Canada Doctoral Exchange Programme. The placement was an opportunity to collaborate internationally on exciting new research that I was able […]
Envision placement details Student name: Mark Hamilton Institution: Lancaster University Placement Host: Seychelles Fishing Authority I completed an Envision-funded placement at Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) from April to June 2022. My PhD research focuses on the effects of coral reef degradation on small-scale fisheries, and three of my PhD chapters involve reefs and fisheries in […]
Details of student and placement Name: Ollie Baines Institution: University of Nottingham Placement Host: United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) From February-April 2021, I was lucky enough to carry out a 3-month placement at United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), working in the Climate Change and Biodiversity programme. Having […]
Location: UKCEH Lancaster Duration: 8 weeks The potential to use soil as a global sink for rising atmospheric CO2 has risen up the political and scientific agenda in the past few years. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and Lancaster University (LU) lead a series of projects that underpin new understanding regarding the role of management and […]
Location: Rothamsted Research Duration: 8 weeks A funded opportunity is available for an undergraduate student to be part of a novel research project at the oilseed rape insect pests’ group in Rothamsted Research with Dr Patricia Ortega-Ramos and Dr Sam Cook during the summer of 2022. This paid research placement is an exciting opportunity to gain valuable […]
Location: Bangor University, Molecular Ecology and Evolution group Duration: 6-10 weeks The ecological impact of artificial light at night (ALAN) has been a rapidly growing field of global change science in recent years. While understanding of direct lighting impacts (for example street lights) has improved dramatically, the effect of artificial skyglow (light that is scattered in the […]