NERC Centre for Doctoral Training in Real-Time Digital Water-Based Systems for Environmental Health
Freshwaters are the most severely impacted environments in terms of chemical pollution, disease and biodiversity loss and act as major conduits of chemical/pathogen exposures in humans and aquatic ecosystems.
What is Red-ALERT?
Red-ALERT is a University of Bath-led multi-institute UKRI (NERC) funded doctoral training centre based in the UK, striving to reverse global environmental degradation and better protect both wildlife and human health.
We are developing a new One-Health Living-Lab platform and co-Creation Hub to enable ongoing co-creation with our partners, to stimulate innovative collaborations, and ensure training continuously improves and responds to evolving needs.
Red-ALERT emerged from recognizing key skills requirements from the NERC National WBE Surveillance Programme and the Wales Surveillance Programme, which was co-developed with key partners with whom we have well established links including government, water companies, consultancies, NGOs/trusts, sensor/information systems/data, chemical industries and agricultural sector.
Our Funding:
We are funded primarily by the UKRI Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) providing 8 fully funded studentships per year, which equates to 2 fully funded studentship for each of the Higher Education Institutions that make up Red-ALERT. Read our funding announcement: – New doctoral training centre in Freshwater-Based Early Warning Systems to open after £2.66m funding. In addition, each of our higher education institutions (University of Bath, Bangor University, Cardiff University & University of Exeter) provide one University fully-funded PhD per cohort. Red-ALERT’s external partners across industry, government bodies, waste water companies, charities and more, supplement many of our studentships by providing primarily CASE funding, training, materials, time and expertise. Case funding also includes a placement opportunity with our external partners affiliated with each current research project, which will be offered to our students in their third year of study.
Why Join Red-ALERT?
Red-ALERT promotes a diverse, supportive and cohesive working environment, with multidisciplinarity and co-creation at our core; we bring together private, government, regulatory and public sector organisations with world leading researchers in the fields of genetics, ecotoxicology, sensor technology, Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous real-time data collection, mathematical modelling, data analytics, informatics and social science to co-design training to directly address key scientific knowledge gaps and areas of national / global skills shortages.
