[CRYOLIST] NERC DTP PhD scholarship opportunity (at full international fee rate) at Univertsity of Sheffield, UK

Dear all

Please distribute widely to potential applicants, in the UK and overseas:

Funding as part of our NERC DTP has been ring fenced for one scholarship in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, for Oct 2022 start. Of the three Geography projects that are part of this competition, two are cryosphere-relevant:

• Is Greenland greening? Biogeomorphic interactions in the ice sheet forelands (primary supervisor, Stephen Livingstone)
• Dynamics of 'Glacier Blood' microbial ecosystems in the European Alps (primary supervisor, Darrel Swift)

The application deadline is 14th January and application instructions can be found here and here. Supervisors of each project will be able to put forward one applicant for interview (further details on selection are given here).

Brief details of each project can be found here and here and potential applicants are welcome to contact the project supervisors for further information and advice before applying.

For the Geography project competition specifically, the scholarship will (where necessary) cover tuition fees at the applicable international rate.

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Dr Darrel A Swift
Senior Lecturerin Geoscience

Director of Postgraduate Research 
Department of Geography
University of Sheffield
SHEFFIELD  S10 2TN UK
Email: D.A.Swift@sheffield.ac.uk
University webpage: https://goo.gl/h9RMJh 

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5320-5104
Google Scholar page: https://goo.gl/1aJptR

Associate Editor:
Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tgaa20/current