We are a community of Earth, Environmental and Life Scientists. We encourage our PhD researchers to establish relationships in their cohort groups for mutual support and to explore collaboration with others both inside and outside their research fields. In working together, we support, rely on and benefit from the universal truth that “we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us”, Jo Cox, MP, maiden speech to Parliament, 3 June 2015.
Our Partnership
The GW4+ Doctoral Landscape Training Partnership (GW4+ DLTP) is a partnership formed in 2014 of the GW4 Alliance of the research-intensive Universities of Bath, Bristol and Exeter and Cardiff University plus five environmental Research Organisations: British Antarctic Survey, British Geological Survey, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the Natural History Museum and Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
Our studentships are funded both by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under the new Doctoral Landscape Award 2024 and our universities. This is part of a major new investment by UKRI in doctoral research and training in the environmental sciences.
We work with another 18 collaborative partners in governmental, research, science communication and industrial sectors on co-development of environmental science research and training of Doctoral Researchers.
Our Researchers
Since 2014, our Doctoral Researchers research projects have spanned the entire spectrum of the Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences with many interdisciplinary and applied projects combining several or more different disciplines.
Our Team
Professor Daniela Schmidt, Director
Dr Emeliana Palk, Doctoral Training Partnership Manager
Mrs Sara Berrow, Doctoral Training Partnership Coordinator
Diversity
It is critical for a thriving, innovative and forward-thinking scientific community to be composed of humankind in all its diversity.
Scientists who are true equals in a research community, able to access all opportunities presented to them and express the full extent of their identities, will produce the best science. Diverse communities of scientists will think beyond the ‘ordinary’ and be able to find effective solutions to the diverse and difficult problems that we face in the world today.
Conversely, pressures due to discrimination and denial of opportunities reduce our effectiveness as scientists and, worse still, increase stress, anxiety and depression, adversely affecting our mental health and wellbeing.
The NERC GW4+ DTP and its constituent universities and research organisations are committed to creating a social and research environment where diversity is celebrated and everyone is fairly treated, regardless of any of these characteristics that they may have; age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation.
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