Benefits

A CDT PhD is different from a traditional PhD, offering numerous benefits to students including:

• Integration of taught modules via a variety of disciplines at several UK locations
• Hands on research
• Insight into working in industry and research

• Multidisciplinary exposure: various experimental techniques and equipment and contact with several disciplines e.g. from Chemical Engineering to Energy Policy
• An improved understanding of societal challenges and the politics of climate change and industrial innovation at a national, as well as larger EU and worldwide level
• Experience in outreach via the mini project

All students will complete 3 mini-projects over the first 3 years of the course. These may be completed individually or in groups and the outcome of each project will be an academic poster detailing the project undertaken.

The mini-projects include:

Year 1. Public engagement activity

Year 2. Interdisciplinary project

Year 3. Industrial placement