Study with CDT SuMMeR
PhD projects, studentships and application guidance
Applications for Cohort 3 of the CDT SuMMeR are now closed for this year’s PhD Studentships.
Information for applicants
Eligibility
Applicants should have a first or upper second-class honours degree in an appropriate subject and either a relevant masters qualification or a wider range of experience in a relevant career path (which is equally as important).
Each applicant may apply for a studentship on up to three projects. Where more than one project is applied for, the supervisors of all those projects will be made aware that other applications have been made.
CDT SuMMeR studentships are partially funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), which applies the eligibility criteria laid down by its parent body, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), and co-funded by the respective Hosting Partner institutes. UKRI provides details on its training grants in its Terms and Conditions for Training Funding document, including its Training Grant Guide, which can be found on the UKRI website.
Since UKRI has set a limit on the proportion of international students appointed each year through individual doctoral training programmes to 30% of the intake per cohort, the re-advertised projects listed are only open to “Home Students” for this round.
The studentship is supported for 3 years and 8 months. All UKRI-funded PhD students will be eligible for the full award – both the stipend to support living costs (£19,237 per academic year at full time equivalent at the 2024/25 rate), and fees at the research organisation’s UK rate.
In case of uncertainty, the planned university of registration should be contacted for eligibility advice; or the CDT SuMMeR Programme Office cdt-summer-pgrs@plymouth.ac.uk