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NERC Researcher Short Articles
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Research leading to a PhD is often funded by one of the seven
Research Councils
This collection of short articles gives sixth formers an insight into the type of research funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. They were the top ten entrants in a NERC writing competition for postgraduate researchers, showing the worldwide research projects that can lead to a PhD.
Click on the titles to read the articles. You can navigate from each article page.
A different perspective on Icelandic glaciers
By Alex Clayton - University of Southampton
Unravelling human-leopard conflict through the eyes of a farmer
By Natasha Constant - Durham University
Stress and weavers in the Kalahari night
By Dominic Cram - University of Exeter
Ice at the end of the Earth
By Christopher Darvill - Durham University
Shrinking (Ultra-) Violet
By Scott Hayes - University of Bristol
My PhD: Continuation of a childhood obsession
By Laura Hepburn - University of Southampton
NERC and the Nuptials
By Paul Hopwood - University of Exeter
Me and my (fishy) NERC PhD
By Abigail Marshall - University of Sheffield
It’s all in the poo: life, death and hormones in a wild population of deer
By Alyson Pavitt - University of Edinburgh
Blue butterflies, Burnet moths and Burial Mounds
By Grace Twiston-Davies - University of Reading