Fully-funded PhD studentship: Accelerating Industrial Decarbonisation: A Focus on Dispersed High-Energy Use Sites

This is a fully-funded 4 year PhD offering an annual tax-free stipend of £20,780, tuition fees and an enhanced research and training grant.

This PhD is one of a number of projects hosted by the Centre for Doctoral Training in Green Industrial Futures (CDT-GIF). We are offering pioneering research projects that will enable PhD researchers to explore key technologies and solutions that will support UK industry to reach net zero.  Alongside their research, our PhD researchers gain valuable training in how to apply their research within the wider industrial system, including opportunities for industry placements, site visits, international facility visits and biannual residentials.

The Project

Are you passionate about combating climate change through innovative decarbonisation technologies? This PhD, working with Prof. Marcelle McManus, provides an opportunity to work to explore and advance novel decarbonisation solutions for high-energy use industrial sites. Your project will be co-created with our industrial partner, British Sugar, who will form the basis of a case study within a PhD research area of high energy, dispersed (ie, not part of any industrial cluster) using industrial sites. 

The research will be computational based, and at this stage is still broad, so we can formulate the optimal plan for the right candidate. We will take an interdisciplinary approach, and you will be able to collaborate with experts from diverse fields including engineering, environmental science, policy studies, and business to address complex decarbonisation challenges. 

A life cycle based approach may be taken to identify opportunities for British Sugar as a case study which can then be applied across a wide range of dispersed industrial sites. These sites are those that might not benefit from large infrastructure investment (such as hydrogen or CO₂ pipelines), but still significant to address in our decarbonisation efforts. 

The CDT and the project has an Interdisciplinary Approach: Collaborate with experts from diverse fields including engineering, environmental science, policy studies, and business to address complex decarbonisation challenges.

Click Apply now for more information on our application process. Deadline: 30^th June.

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