Program Overview
Liverpool's Earth Science PhD program focuses on renewable energy and environmental challenges, with projects funded by international organizations and industries. It offers extensive laboratory facilities, field studies worldwide, and aims to develop researchers with strong transferable research skills, including data analysis, critical thinking, and publication writing. The program boasts a 96% world-leading or internationally excellent research rating and has produced students with multiple peer-reviewed publications during their studies.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Earth Science is one of the five subject disciplines within the School of Environmental Sciences at Liverpool. Each year they offer projects concerned with renewable energy (e.g. geothermal) and environmental challenges (e.g. carbon capture and storage, microplastics). Their projects are funded by international research organisations as well as industry and charities. Earth Science research at Liverpool is exciting and dynamic, and has a tremendous breadth of topics. They are internationally recognised for their studies of both the solid Earth and Earth surface processes. They aim to understand the Earth and contribute to society’s energy and environmental efforts through studies that employ field, experimental, analytical and numerical techniques, providing an integrated approach to some of the most fundamental questions in their science. They have unique, extensive and world-leading laboratory facilities for rock deformation, electron microscopy, geomagnetism, volcanology, seismology and diagenesis. They are also passionate about fieldwork and conduct field studies around the world. They aim to produce researchers who are internationally recognised in their own fields and understand current environmental and academic research problems, and who also have strong, transferable research skills. You will develop your research skills primarily by completing a project under supervision. These skills include:
- data collection and management
- data interpretation and modelling
- critical analysis
- analysis and discussion of literature
- presentation skills, through international conferences
- paper writing skills, through writing manuscripts They encourage and train you to publish academic papers. It is not unusual for their students to complete their PhD programme with 2-3 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals.
Other:
- They have 100 years of teaching Earth Science subjects at Liverpool.
- 96% of all activity is 'world leading' (4 ) or 'internationally excellent' (3 ) in the latest Research Excellence Framework (2021).
- They have 36 Earth Sciences PhD students.
| Fees | UK students | International students | | ----------- | ----------- | ----------- | | MPhil / PhD | Full time | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences £29,750 (Band A)^ Faculty of Science and Engineering £29,750 (Band A)^ or £23,400 (Band B) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences £23,400 (Band B) | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences £14,900 (Band A)^ Faculty of Science and Engineering £14,900 (Band A)^ or £11,700 (Band B) Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences £11,700 (Band B) | | | Part time | | |
