We group our doctoral programme under six key areas of Complexity Science:agent-based modelling;networks and emergent behaviour;self-organisation and assembly;nonlinear dynamics and modelling in the presence of noise;spatio-temporal complexity, quantification and modelling;management and bounding of complexity.The development of these themes and applications proposed within them addresses societal, financial and technical performance at the system level, key for national competitiveness. Particular key current societal problems are also addressed, such as crime, terrorism, epidemics, computer viruses, and understanding how to control their spread.We propose medically related projects of clear importance to the NHS (diabetes, back pain, consultation effectiveness), financial applications address the effective management of UK markets and financial intervention, and we include a diverse range of environmental interests for the UK, from habitats to our skies and space weather. Our neuro-related network projects and intelligent agent and trusted agent researches relate to close UK priorities identified by DTI Foresight programme, and we also look to longer term possibilities such as self-assembling molecular-scale technology.

ANR-PROTECT is a fund-raising project aiming to consolidate an ongoing initiative to federate the leading European research institutes working on the contribution of land ice melt to sea-level rise. The consortium thus established will apply to the H2020 call LC-CLA-07-2019: “The changing cryosphere: uncertainties, risks and opportunities”, specifically the action on sea level changes. The foundation of a very strong multidisciplinary consortium is already laid, bringing together the leading European experts on (i) atmosphere and surface mass balance of ice sheets and glaciers, (ii) ocean and sub ice shelf melting, (ii) ice sheet flow, (iv) the coupling of these components, (v) mass balance of mountain glaciers, (vi) regional sea level changes and (vii) coastal impacts. In accordance with the requirements of LC-CLA-07-2019, the expertise of the PROTECT consortium will allow to tackle the essential societal issue of improving the regional and local projections of sea level change by including a better representation of the evolution of the cryosphere mass balance.