We are pleased to announce we’re opening this year’s nominations for SENSE prizes all cohort 3 students are eligible, if you’re unsure what cohort your student is in please see https://eo-cdt.org/people/students-and-academics/.
The SENSE PhD prizes are designed to reward and encourage current PhD students in the NERC SENSE CDT for their research excellence, outreach skills, and commitment to working with external partners in the Space industry and beyond. The awards of £100 per prize will recognise this expertise and enable the winner to further develop their career by supporting activities such as attendance at a conference, access to field work, or relevant training.
We are now accepting nominations for the 2026 awards.
NERC SENSE CDT awards 3 prizes annually. This year’s prizes are open to SENSE students from Cohort 3. While self-nominations are not accepted, we encourage students to engage with their full supervisory team, external partners and colleagues as appropriate to make nominations. You may nominate each student for one or more of the prizes.
Best Paper Prize:
Best journal paper with a SENSE CDT PhD student author published during their PhD. Students who have completed their PhD, but submitted or published the paper while a student, are eligible. Papers must be fully published or downloadable from the journal website with a doi (i.e. a pre-print) to be eligible.
Best Outreach Prize:
Best contribution from a SENSE PhD student to outreach activities at any skill level.
Best External Engagement Prize:
Best engagement with an external company or organisation, e.g. from industry, NGO, government agency, policy maker or charity.
For further details about the prizes, the nomination process and the prize itself please email SENSE Earth Observation CDT: [email protected] and [email protected] . You can nominate students for multiple prizes.
The deadline for nominations is 17:00 on Monday 20th April 2026.