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DTP 2016-2017 University of Bath

Funder EPSRC (part of UKRI)
Recipient organisation University of Bath
Funding £4.5M
Period Sept 2016 — Sept 2021

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The University of Bath is using EPSRC funding to train the next generation of engineers and physical scientists through a Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) that recruits top postgraduate researchers from around the world. This matters because the UK needs a steady pipeline of highly skilled researchers to tackle complex, large-scale challenges—from cutting carbon emissions and developing sustainable materials to improving digital media and data analysis. Without sustained investment in doctoral training, the country risks losing its competitive edge in science and engineering. If the programme succeeds, it will produce confident, well-equipped graduates who can drive innovation across multiple sectors. These researchers might develop new low-carbon technologies, create advanced medical devices, or build more resilient digital infrastructure. The impact is indirect but foundational: every breakthrough in engineering and physical sciences depends on the people trained to make it happen. This is primarily a capacity-building project. It does not target a single application but instead strengthens the entire research ecosystem. Past investments in similar training schemes have led to unexpected advances—for example, fundamental materials science research that later enabled smartphone displays or medical imaging. The same pattern could emerge from this cohort.

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The University of Bath offers DTP funded opportunities for postgraduate research across the breadth of engineering and physical sciences, working on challenges of global significance. We have six strategic research themes: low carbon futures, sustainability, advanced materials and devices, healthy living, data and analysis, and digital media & visual technologies. Our postgraduate research programmes aim to attract cohorts of the very best students from across the world, to embed them in well-resourced and supportive environments in which they can confront the major issues facing our national and global communities, to develop their research abilities through a combination of skills development and training, and student-led research activity, and to graduate them as well-equipped and confident researchers capable of contributing to building the world of tomorrow. Our allocation of funding for the current year 2015/2016 was roughly 25% to Departments in the Faculty of Engineering and Design and 75% to Departments in the Faculty of Science (including Mathematical Sciences). Research in the strategic theme areas is spread across these Departments. Decisions affecting the allocation for 2016/17 will be confirmed by the end of October 2015 to facilitate the recruitment of high quality candidates. Details of the opportunities for postgraduate research can be found at: http://www.bath.ac.uk/study/pg/options/findaphd/

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