Unless you are planning to submit your own project, you should select a highlighted thematic topic within which to develop your research. Applicants should limit their application to one topic and demonstrate how they would make the project their own in addition to evidencing their fit with the student specification and skillset which will vary with each project. All successful candidates will work with an external organisation which will provide mentorship. This organisation will be agreed between the supervisory team and student for the award-holder.

Our highlighted thematic topics for 2023 are:

• Facilitating wider participation and community building in citizen science through visualisationLink opens in a new window

• Sustainability from Below: Exploring the importance of tackling legacies of past violence

• The Social Dimension of Multi-Risk Hazard Monitoring

• Incorporating social justice into environmental decision making

• Towards 'Care-ful' Cities: unsettling boundaries

• Towards a Net Zero NHS

• Understanding water resilience under global change using secondary date

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