How to Apply
Our online application portal, Good Grants, is now open:
We aim to let you know the outcome of your application by the end of January 2026. To help reduce unconscious bias, applications are anonymised before being assessed.
Key Dates for Applications for Autumn 2026 Entry
Application Deadline: Monday 12 January, 2026
We aim to let you know whether you will be invited to interview by the end of January.
If you have applied for more than one project and/or the Crocus BAME Scholarship, you will be contacted separately for each.
The lead supervisor (for projects) and the Selection Board chair (for the BAME Scholarship) will contact you to arrange a suitable time and date for an online interview. Interviews must take place by Monday 16 February 2026.
The Crocus Selection Board will meet in early March and we will let you know the outcome of the interviews as soon as possible.
If you are offered a Crocus studentship, you will be offered the opportunity to visit the lead supervisor and/or host institution to help make your decision prior to the NERC Universal Acceptance Deadline, which is Wednesday 18 March 2026.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
We welcome applications from groups that are under-represented in the environmental science careers and encourage supervisors to advertise widely including outside their academic networks. To help reduce unconscious bias in shortlisting, our application form is designed to conform with the UKRI’s good practice guidance in recruitment.
What happens next?
After you have submitted your application and supporting documents via Good Grants, you will receive a confirmation email from us.
Referees are automatically contacted when your application is submitted.
Your completed application will be assessed by different panels. The time it takes to consider and process your application varies for each panel.
Get in touch
If you have any questions, please email crocus-dla@reading.ac.uk