Developing next generation leaders in environmental science
I had the wonderful opportunity to do a 3-month placement from October to December 2023 with the Welsh Government in their water policy team. During this time, I worked closely with water quality and policy experts, gaining invaluable insights into government policymaking. Despite being based in Nottingham, the Welsh Government provided me with the flexibility […]
As a remote student undertaking PhD project centered around secondary data analysis, I wanted to undertake a placement that allowed me to work in more collaboratively in an industry setting and to gain a deeper understanding of peatlands and to develop my GIS and fieldwork skills. I reached out to the Water Research Centre (WRc) […]
PhD student Archita Bhattacharyya is undertaking a project focused on exploring the ecosystem of microorganisms in groundwater of England. In south England and the Midlands, about 70 per cent of drinking water is sourced from groundwater. This groundwater is home to a wide variety of microscopic organisms that have interactive relationships with the surrounding abiotic […]
PhD student Hamish Duncalf-Youngson recently visited Manipur, India, to assess the effects of aquaculture, environmental change and pollution at this internationally important site. Arriving in Manipur in north-east India jolts your senses to life, from the heat and dust to the chaotic driving practices (which heavily require dodging cows in the middle of four-lane roads). […]
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 […]
Anita Weissflog, Envision student from Bangor University recently published the following article on one of her PhD chapters in Biotropica. The article is openly accessible via this link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.13150. She also created a short animation video during the Envision-sponsored infohackit workshop which shows what she discovered regarding the effects of host plant hairiness and time […]
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 […]