Learning & Skills Overview

Welcome to the Learning & Skills homepage. Here you will find all subjects relating to capacity building. This includes all information pertaining to the Sparks Network, Summer School and the UKERC PhD Studentship competition.

UKERC International Energy Summer School

A unique week-long event, UKERC's Energy Summer School combines seminars from internationally leading speakers with challenging project work and professionally facilitated developmental activities. Find out more.

PhD studentships

UKERC’s interdisciplinary postgraduate studentship scheme provides talented students with the opportunity to undertake research and training to help them to develop a good understanding of the concepts underpinning more than one discipline and to foster interdisciplinary research skills. Find out more.

Sparks Network

UKERC Sparks is a network of over 300 PhD students and early career researchers from the UK and abroad. Find out more.  

Network of Energy Centres for Doctoral Training

The Energy CDT Network draws the 13 Energy Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) together to collaborate on training programmes and research projects, share best practice and communicate their work to the public. Read more about the aims of the Network.