DTP 2224 University of Glasgow

This grant funds postgraduate training for doctoral students across a range of scientific fields, not a single research project. The funding supports the next generation of researchers through the University of Glasgow’s Doctoral Training Partnership. Rather than addressing a specific knowledge gap, it provides the infrastructure—stipends, supervision, and training programmes—that allows PhD students to pursue their own investigations in areas aligned with EPSRC’s priorities, such as engineering, physical sciences, and technology. If successful, this training pipeline will produce skilled scientists and engineers who go on to work in academia, industry, and the public sector. The impact is indirect but cumulative: every new material, medical device, or energy system that emerges from UK research depends on people who were once doctoral trainees. This grant does not aim for a specific breakthrough. Instead, it sustains the human talent that makes future breakthroughs possible. Similar training partnerships have historically underpinned advances in fields from quantum computing to medical imaging, though no immediate application is promised here.