Research Experience Placements Scheme (REPS)

Summer 2025 ACCE+ DLA REPs projects are now live! Please see details below.

The NERC Research Experience Placement (REP) scheme aims to address both thematic skills gaps as well as demographic and diversity-related challenges in the environmental sciences by offering funding to support paid summer placements for undergraduate students, during which they will carry out research projects within the scope of the environmental sciences.

The ACCE+ DLA is committed to recruiting extraordinary future scientists regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, faith or religious belief, pregnancy or maternity, parental or caring responsibilities or career pathway to date. We understand that a student’s potential can be shown in many ways and we strive to recruit students from all backgrounds, and support them on their scientific journey. We encourage all candidates to apply, and look to identify those who are likely to be successful in research regardless of what opportunities may have been available to them prior to their application.

EDI

The EDI form is a mandatory application document, but will not be used as part of the assessment process. It will not be passed to supervisors, will be anonymised at the earliest opportunity, and within the ACCE DTP will only be accessible to management staff. Data will only be kept until the Training Grant expires. The data collected will be used to ensure that our processes provide equal opportunities to all. For reporting purposes, anonymised data will be shared with NERC. For any questions you do not wish to provide information for, or where you would prefer your data not to be shared with NERC, please select ‘prefer not to say’. If you have any questions about this form, please contact us at acce.dtp@liverpool.ac.uk. A data privacy notice for this EDI form is available here.

Eligibility

Any undergraduate students who are in their final year of study who are awarded a REP placement, should not yet have graduated and should still have student status by the start date of the placement. REPs are not normally available to international students who are not currently based in the UK.

How to Apply

Please submit a CV and cover letter to the primary supervisor of the project you are interested in. Following the closing date, supervisors will select their nominations for the project and the ACCE Management Board will review and select the candidates to be awarded the projects. Please note that being nominated by the project supervisor does not guarantee that a candidate will be awarded a project.

Closing date for all applications: Wednesday 25th June 2025.

Projects at University of Liverpool

Project 1 – Dr Robert Duller (robert.duller@liverpool.ac.uk).

Hot rocks on wet sands: the deformed lower boundary of the Garth Tuff (North Wales)

Project 2 – Dr Marcus Blagrove (marcus.blagrove@liverpool.ac.uk)

Analysing the capacity of Aedes aegypti pupae to avoid thermal stress

Project 3: Dr Oliver Padget (oliver.padget@liverpool.ac.uk)

Avian spatial cognition: do birds plan their foraging trips?

Projects at University of York

Project 1: Dr Daphne Ezer (daphne.ezer@york.ac.uk)

Evolution of seasonal control of flowering

Project 2: Dr Daniel Jeffares (daniel.jeffares@york.ac.uk)