Completed Engineering Education & Skills

DTP 2016-2017 Queen Mary, University of London

Funder EPSRC (part of UKRI)
Recipient organisation Queen Mary University of London
Funding £1.4M
Period Sept 2016 — Sept 2021

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Queen Mary University of London will fund roughly 40 PhD students each year through its EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership, covering disciplines from astronomy and bioengineering to mathematics and psychology. This funding addresses a critical gap in the UK’s research pipeline: training the next generation of scientists and engineers. Without sustained support for doctoral students, the country would lose the skilled researchers needed to drive innovation across both fundamental and applied fields. The programme recruits students, then provides them with subject-specific training and transferable skills through the university’s Doctoral College. If successful, this project will produce dozens of early-career researchers capable of advancing knowledge in areas that quietly underpin modern life—materials science for manufacturing, computer science for communications, electronic engineering for energy grids, and chemistry for water treatment. The impact is not immediate or product-focused; it is a long-term investment in human capital. Similar doctoral training programmes have historically seeded breakthroughs in everything from medical diagnostics to navigation systems, by giving talented people the time and resources to explore fundamental questions without commercial pressure.

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The Faculty of Science and Engineering at Queen Mary University of London (http://www.qmul.ac.uk/about/se/) typically awards 40 fully or half funded PhD students each year, a number of which are supported through our EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership. All studentships are allocated to individual research projects in its academic Schools and Institutes and these cover a wide range of research disciplines including: astronomy, bioengineering, biological science, chemistry, computer science, electronic engineering, engineering, materials science, mathematics, psychology and physics. The closing date for applications is the 31st January (see http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/index.html) and successful applicants can be expected to be invited for interview shortly after this date. QMUL has an innovative and thriving research community in which all our PhD students play an important part. The Doctoral College, QMUL's Graduate School (see http://www.doctoralcollege.qmul.ac.uk/) oversees the recruitment and admission, training and development, academic progression and examination of QMUL's PhD students. A very wide range of training opportunities are afforded all PhD students both internally and externally covering a range of subject specific as well as softer transferable skills.

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