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