Undergraduate – Research Placements & Opportunities
Research Experience Placements
NERC Research Experience Placements
Each year Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) provides funding for Research Experience Placements (REPs).
The REP scheme focusing on quantitative skills gaps and underrepresentation by offering funding to support paid summer placements for undergraduate students, during which students carry out research projects within the scope of the environmental sciences.
These placements are intended to encourage students to consider a career in this field.
Applications for Summer 2023 are now closed.
Previous Projects
2023_01_A new generation of ice-sheet fracture models to predict iceberg calving and sea-level rise
Project Description: A new generation of ice-sheet fracture models to predict iceberg calving and sea-level rise (PDF)
Supervisor: Dr Emilio Martinez-Paneda
Department/Institution: Civil and Environmental Engineering
2023_02_Innovative recycling technique for achieving zero pollution wind power
Project Description: Innovative recycling technique for achieving zero pollution wind power (PDF)
Supervisor: Dr Chao Wu
Department/Institution: Civil and Environmental Engineering
2023_03 _Predicting the effect of anthropogenic activity on insect biodiversity change
Project Description: Predicting the effect of anthropogenic activity on insect biodiversity change (PDF)
Supervisor: Joe Millard
Department/Institution: Natural History Museum
2023_04_Planetary helical motion in the ocean
Project Description:Planetary helical motion in the ocean (PDF)
Supervisor: Dr Arnaud Czaja
Department/Institution: Physics
2023_05_NowWaves: Real time prediction of coastal waves
Project Description: NowWaves: Real time prediction of coastal (PDF)
Supervisor: Dr Ioannis Karmpadakis
Department/Institution: Civil and Environmental Engineering
2023_06_Generating an energy-mass-information equivalence simulator for waste-to-energy non-classical bioprocessing optimisation
Project Description: Generating an energy-mass-information equivalence simulator for waste-to-energy non-classical bioprocessing optimisation (PDF)
Supervisor: Dr Henry-Po Lee
Department/Institution: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Previous Projects
These are some of the projects students worked on in previous years:
Project Title | Department/Organisation |
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Ecosystem responses to drought intensification | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Next-generation ice-sheet fracture models to quantitatively predict iceberg calving and sea-level rise | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Modifying spatial reproductions of natural soundscapes to evaluate ecoacoustic analysis algorithms | Dyson School of Design Engineering |
Quantum linear regression for anaerobic digestion unprecedented forecasting and optimisation | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Novel chemistry for a circular economy for bauxite residue | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Pathway to providing environmentally friendly lubrication solutions - replacing silicone oils with bio-acceptable alternatives | Mechanical Engineering |
Towards nature-positive businesses: Meta-meta-analysis on the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity | Natural History Museum |
Machine learning analysis of micro-scale industrial energy systems | Center for Environmental Policy |
Phytophthora communities in UK nurseries: understanding the role of traits, biotic interactions and nursery management in pathogen invasions | UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
Investigating shoreline changes using freely available archives of satellite image data | Earth Science and Engineering |
Do habitat and distributional traits predict which European mosquito species vector important viruses? | UK Centre for Ecoloyg and Hydrology |
EcoBuilder: an ecosystem dynamics game | Life Sciences |
Tackling xenobiotic reistance in agriculture: implications for carbon emissions | Institute of Zoology |
Risk analysis of nanomaterials in the environment | Materials |
Machine learning analysis of energy storage data | Dyson School of Design |
Is the geomagnetic field dipolar at high-latitudes | Earth Sciene & Engineering |
Low-cost wireless sensor networks for river flow monitoring | Civil & Environmental Engineering |
Techno-economic analysis of biorefineries fuelled by sugar beet pulp | Chemical Engineering |
Where are the missing grasses? | Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew |
Developing a Bayesian framework for modelling repetitive element evolution | Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew |
Biogas conversion in oxygen separation membranes | Earth Science & Engineering |
Plate reconstructions in the South Atlantic | Earth Science & Engineering |
Probabilistic assessment of tsunami hazard to the UK | Earth Science & Engineering |
Uncertainty quantification and parameter estimation in environmental fluid dynamics | Earth Science & Engineering |
An investigation of the characteristics of visits to National Trails | Natural England |