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APPLYING TO THE SCOTT POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SPRI)
The Course Description is "PhD in Polar Studies"; entering the word 'Polar' in the Course Directory Search should bring this up.
When prompted in the research section of the on-line application, please make sure that you enter the name(s) of the supervisor(s) you are applying to work with, and the topic area; if more than one is listed please give a priority order.
Please remember that, although you may see later dates by which you can apply to enter the course, the deadline for funding by the NERC Doctoral Landscape Award (and for consideration for research areas listed by the DLA) for 2025 entry is early January (exact date TBC) at noon.
Click here to start the application process.
More details about postgraduate training at Geography and SPRI are on the department website.
The Scott Polar Research Institute is a sub-Department of Geography which has strong links with the British Antarctic Survey. Geography at Cambridge was ranked second nationally in the 2014 REF and is currently ranked third globally; physical Geography in the Department includes. The Department is recognised internationally for research in glaciology, atmospheric and freshwater science, coastal studies and volcanology, and has strong links with other Cambridge groups in, for example, Quaternary environmental change and atmospheric processes.
Numerical skills underpin much Physical Geography research. Both numerical modelling (of ice sheets, atmospheric and fluvial systems and carbon and nutrient cycling) and quantitative remote sensing (using satellite radar and laser altimetry, SAR interferometry, ice-penetrating radar and many imaging systems) are specialisms within the Department. This work is enhanced by collaboration with other Cambridge departments in the Physical Sciences and Engineering, and through the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science. Physical Geography staff have wide-ranging, funded links with business, government and industry including hydrological research with water companies which involve advising regional government on flood prediction.
