Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment (ACCE)

ACCE DTP（适应不断变化的环境挑战）汇集了来自谢菲尔德大学，约克大学和利物浦大学的世界级研究小组的互补学术优势，以及NERC生态和水文学中心（CEH）的独特科学资源。我们在生物和相关环境科学领域拥有广泛的跨学科专业知识，从分子到全球范围。ACCE的卓越研究集中在(1)确保生态系统服务和环境资源；(2)预测和减缓气候变化的影响；(3)了解生物多样性的动态；(4)研究进化变化的机制。这些研究重点得到四个交叉培训主题的支持：(1)定量方法和建模；(2)组学技术；(3)现场方法；(4)影响：知识交流、业务和政策。我们的目标是培养未来的研究人员，使他们能够理解和解决具有国家和全球重要性的基础和应用环境与生态问题。ACCE的学生将有机会接触到各院校最先进的技术和方法，并有机会获得考古学、数学、环境工程、地球科学和分析化学等相关学科的培训机会。因此，ACCE DTP通过与28个CASE合作伙伴（包括国际合作伙伴）的强有力合作，提供了一个连贯的多学科培训环境，这些合作伙伴将为学生的研究和培训做出贡献，并通过咨询委员会的成员资格指导ACCE的战略发展。我们的愿景是，ACCE将培养有能力在NERC科学领域和其他领域之间移动的多技能学生，将他们从事的科学与商业、政策、公共需求和社会联系起来。ACCE培训计划的关键方面包括：-强大和支持性的研究人员社区：我们将通过全队列培训、跨机构活动和委员会、点对点培训和在线资源来促进这一点。-完全整合的CASE合作伙伴贡献：我们的目标是让40%的学生成为CASE合作伙伴，为培训和实习做出贡献，并让所有学生接触到大学以外的各种环境，包括非政府组织、小企业、公共机构和法定机构。-创新和整合的招聘程序：我们会避免预先为院校分配项目，确保在最佳的培训环境中，为最佳的项目挑选最优秀的学生。-跨机构监管：我们的目标是50%的项目实行跨机构联合监管。我们的项目将确保ACCE的学生获得世界一流的培训，使他们成为下一代环境科学家的领导者。

The ACCE DTP (Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment) brings together the complementary academic strengths of world-class research groups from the Universities of Sheffield, York and Liverpool, combined with the unique scientific resources of NERC's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH). We bring broad cross-disciplinary expertise in biological and related environmental sciences, at scales from the molecular to the global. ACCE research excellence is focussed on (1) Securing ecosystem services and environmental resources; (2) Predicting and mitigating impacts ofclimate change; (3) Understanding the dynamics of biodiversity; and (4) Investigating mechanisms of evolutionary change.These research foci are supported by four cross-cutting training themes: (1) Quantitative methods and modelling, (2) Omic technologies, (3) Field methods, and (4) Impact: knowledge exchange, business and policy.Our aim is to train researchers of the future equipped to understand and solve fundamental and applied environmental and ecological questions of national and global importance. ACCE students will have access to state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies across the host institutes as well as training opportunities in a number of related disciplines, including archaeology, mathematics, environmental engineering, geosciences and analytical chemistry. The ACCE DTP thus provides a coherent multidisciplinary training environment enhanced by strong collaborations with 28 CASE partners (including international partners) who will contribute to student research and training and guide ACCE strategic development through membership of an Advisory Board.Our vision is that ACCE will train multi-skilled students with the capacity to move between NERC scientific fields, and other areas, relating the science they undertake to business, policy, public needs, and society. Key aspects of the ACCE training programme include:- A strong and supportive researcher community: We will foster this by whole-cohort training, cross-institutional activities and committees, peer-to-peer training, and online resources.- Fully integrated CASE partner contributions: We aim for 40% of studentships to be CASE with partners contributing to training and placements, and exposing all students to a range of diverse environments beyond universities, including NGOs, small businesses, public bodies and statutory agencies.- Innovative and integrated recruitment procedures: we will avoid pre-set project allocation to institutions to ensure that we select the best students on the best projects in the best training environments.- Cross-institutional supervision: Our aim is that 50% of projects will have cross-institutional co-supervision.Our programme will ensure ACCE students experience worldclass training, enabling them to become leaders of the next generation of environmental scientists.