ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
The EPSRC has announced £250 million in funding to create 44 new doctoral training centres across the UK. They will bring researchers together to address current and future science and engineering challenges and train PhD students. Each will receive between £5 million and £8 million in financial support. The centres are expected to train more than 2,000 PhD students over five years. Seventeen of the new centres will conduct industrial training, equipping students with the business skills to turn ideas into products and services.
Institution: University of Manchester
Industrial doctorate centre in nuclear engineering; Northwest nanoscience doctoral training centre; Nuclear fission research
Institution: University of Birmingham
Formulation engineering; Hydrogen fuel cells and their applications
Institution: University of Reading
Technologies for sustainable built environments
Institution: Cranfield University
Industrial doctorate for UK water industry
Institution: University of Bath
Industrial doctorate centre in digital media, special effects and animation; Sustainable chemical technologies
Institution: University College London
Industrial doctorate centre for bioprocessing engineering leadership; Virtual environments, imaging and visualisation; Financial computing; Urban sustainability and resilience; Photonic systems development; Security science; Molecular modelling and materials science
Institution: University of Surrey
Industrial doctorate centre in micro and nano materials and technologies; Industrial doctorate centre in sustainability for engineering and energy systems
Institution: Newcastle University
Industrial doctorate centre in biopharmaceutical process development
Institution: University of Southampton
Complex systems simulation; Web science; Industrial doctorate centre in transport and environment
Institution: Heriot-Watt University
Industrial doctorate centre in optics and photonics technologies
Institution: Loughborough University
Industrial doctorate centre for innovative and collaborative construction engineering
Institution: University of Bristol
Industrial doctorate centre in systems; Advanced composites centre for innovation and science; Holistic doctoral training centre for chemical synthesis; Doctoral training centre in functional nanomaterials
Institution: University of Cambridge
Assembly of functional nanomaterials and nanodevices
Institution: University of St Andrews
Condensed matter physics
Institution: Queen Mary, University of London
Digital music and media for the creative economy
Institution: University of Nottingham
Efficient power from fossil energy and carbon-capture technologies; Ubiquitous computing for a digital economy
Institution: University of Strathclyde
Wind-energy systems
Institution: University of Leeds
Technologies for a low-carbon future
Institution: Lancaster University
The digital economy innovation centre
Institution: University of Oxford
Systems approaches to biomedical science industrial doctorate centre; Systems biology doctoral training centre; Biomedical engineering at the translational interface of next-generation healthcare
Institution: Imperial College London
Science and application of plastic electronic materials; Theory and simulation of materials; Controlled quantum dynamics
Institution: University of Sheffield
Interdisciplinary energy research; Advanced metallic systems - challenges in global competitiveness
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
Award winner: Robert Lloyd
Institution: University of Nottingham
Value: £801,000
Maintaining genome integrity: avoiding pathological consequences during DNA replication and repair
Award winner: Tony Carr
Institution: Genome Damage and Stability Centre, Sussex
Value: £5,000
Which DNA polymerase functions during HR-dependent fork restart?
Award winner: Thomas Helleday
Institution: University of Oxford
Value: £887,000
Targeting homologous recombination repair for anti-cancer therapy.