National Centres for Doctoral Training
Our Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) provide training and research to address complex industrial challenges.
Studentships are available to applicants from a wide range of science and engineering backgrounds. These four year programmes include taught and technical components with professional skills training, as well as a PhD level research project. Industrial partners play an active role in shaping and delivering the training.
Manchester based CDTs
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2D Materials of Tomorrow CDT
The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in 2D Materials of Tomorrow (2DMoT), a partnership between The University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge, is a four-year PhD programme that provides the knowledge and skills for cutting edge, cross-disciplinary research in the science and applications of advanced two-dimensional materials.
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AI CDT in Decision Making for Complex Systems
Led by Dr Mauricio A Álvarez, this UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Decision Making for Complex Systems is a 4-year programme that will educate the next generation of AI researchers to develop and deploy new machine learning models, which can efficiently cope with uncertainty in complex systems.
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CDT in SATURN (Skills and Training Underpinning a Renaissance in Nuclear)
Led by Professor Scott Heath, the primary aim of SATURN is to provide high quality research training in science and engineering, underpinning nuclear fission technology.
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External CDTs
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CDT in Aerosol Science
From drug delivery to the lungs to the transmission of disease, climate change to combustion science, new routes to materials to consumer and agricultural products, an understanding of aerosol science is crucial. The CDT in Aerosol Science has identified the key knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for successful practitioners of this rapidly-evolving, interdisciplinary field.
Please note, the EPSRC CDT in Aerosol Science is being led by the University of Bristol in partnership with six other institutions of which The University of Manchester is one.
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CDT in Developing National Capability in Materials 4.0
The CDT in Materials 4.0, led by the Henry Royce Institute - the UK’s national institute for advanced materials research, is seeking scientists and engineers keen to acquire new skills and work in new ways, to help us realise the potential of the digital and data revolutions in materials science.
Please note this CDT is led by the Henry Royce Institute in collaboration with Sheffield, Oxford, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Cambridge, Imperial College London, the National Nuclear Laboratory and the UK Atomic Energy Authority.
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