PhD Studentship: Energy Resilience and the Built Environment

The School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering aims to be the world’s leading integrated centre for built environment research and education, attending to the entire lifecycle of both buildings and infrastructure through our research, teaching and enterprise programmes. Find out more: www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/abce/

The EPSRC CDT in Energy Resilience and the Built Environment (ERBE) brings together established energy research centres at Loughborough University and University College London with the MaREI Research Centre (Ireland). We provide a unique opportunity to work with leading researchers on multi-disciplinary projects integrated with industry and provide a comprehensive skills and development programme. Find out more: https://erbecdt.ac.uk/loughborough-university/

The ERBE CDT is an integrated, four-year programme, which will provide the knowledge, research, and transferable skills to enable outstanding graduates from physics to social sciences to successfully pursue research in one of three themes:

• Flexibility and resilience
• Technology and system performance
• Comfort, health, and well-being

By providing training in a rigorous, world-leading, stakeholder-shaped, outward-facing, and multi-centred research environment, the ERBE CDT will help the UK achieve the goals in the government's industrial strategy and clean growth plan.

You are welcome to apply with a research proposal based on a self-generated project idea, or you can write a research proposal based on one of the project ideas here: https://erbecdt.ac.uk/apply/

Funding information:
We have up to 10 fully funded studentships available. The four-year studentship is intended to start by 1 October 2023 and provides a tax-free stipend of £17,668 a year (2022/23 level; stipend increases each year) for the duration of the studentship, plus tuition fees. Up to three fully funded studentships can be allocated to outstanding international applicants.

We also accept applications from those who wish to self-fund, are in receipt of an independent scholarship, or are fully industry-funded; this must be indicated clearly on your application. Further information about UKRI funding eligibility can be found here: www.ukri.org/skills/funding-for-research-training/.

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