{"id":134,"date":"2026-06-26T10:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-ecosystem-sciences\/?page_id=134"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:31:02","slug":"phd-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences\/study\/phd-students\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Open University is home to a thriving campus-based research community located in Milton Keynes. At any one time, we have about 25 full-time PhD students based here on campus. We also have postgraduate research students located at other institutes and locations around the UK, on both a full-time&nbsp;and part-time basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EEES is a member of The Central England NERC Training Alliance&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.centa.org.uk\/\">CENTA<\/a>, a consortium of research-intensive Universities and research institutes that are working together to provide excellence in doctoral research training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, we have a number of PhD projects that are funded through other external and internal sources; see below for further details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In terms of research areas, we have students working across each of our main&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-ecosystem-sciences\/research\/research-in-eees\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"172\">research themes<\/a>, on a variety of topics covering Earth, Environmental and Ecosystem Sciences. These include geological processes, oceanography, polar science, Earth systems modelling, palaeoclimate, biogeochemistry and geochemistry, micropalaeontology, microbiology, grass&nbsp;and wetland ecology, peatland stability&nbsp;and greenhouse gas cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a much larger PhD student community here on campus, with over 300 research students based in the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics alone, and a total of around 900 research students across the four faculties and three institutes that make up the Open University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open University is home to a thriving campus-based research community located in Milton Keynes. At any one time, we have about 25 full-time PhD students based here on campus. We also have postgraduate research students located at other institutes and locations around the UK, on both a full-time&nbsp;and part-time basis. EEES is a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_unity_review_frequency":"","_unity_review_next_due":0,"_unity_review_reset_requested":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-134","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/134\/revisions\/195"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.stem.open.ac.uk\/environment-earth-and-ecosystem-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}