8 Jan 2015
University funds 40 new PhD studentships
The University has announced funding for 40 new PhD studentships across the campus.
Awarded by the Graduate School, the studentships span all six research challenges at the University, with every academic school benefitting from the funding. Ten individual studentships have been granted, with the remaining 30 broken down into six mini Centres for Doctoral Training, each with five posts.
Professor Andrew Dainty, Director of the Graduate School, said: “This is a major financial investment by the University and underlines its commitment to supporting and developing doctoral research at Loughborough.”
Full details of the studentships can be found below:
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Mini Centres for Doctoral Training |
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Lead School |
Participating Schools |
Research Challenge |
Proposed Title of Mini-CDT |
Lead Academic |
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Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences |
Social, Political and Geographical Sciences |
Culture, Communication and Citizenship |
Sport and Citizenship |
Professor Richard Giulianotti |
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Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering |
Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering; Science |
Health and Wellbeing |
Fighting Infectious Disease: Pushing the boundaries in diagnostics and therapeutics |
Dr Sourav Ghosh |
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Social, Political and Geographical Sciences |
School of Business and Ecomics, Loughborough Design School, Chemistry, Civil and Building Engineering |
Secure and Resilient Societies |
Policing for the Future: Socio-technical resilience and innovation |
Dr Karen Lumsden |
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Civil and Building Engineering |
None |
Energy |
Halo: The RAEng Centre of Excellence PhD cluster |
Professor Jacqueline Glass |
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Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering |
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering; Science |
Enabling Technologies |
Advanced joining technologies for high value manufacturing |
Dr Gary Critchlow |
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Civil and Building Engineering |
Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering; Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering; Loughborough Design School |
Changing Environments and Infrastructure |
Automated Mobility: Developing a safer and smarter transport system through advances in automation and intelligent mobility |
Professor Mohammed Quddus |
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Individual studentships |
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School |
Project Lead |
Project Title |
Research Challenge(s) |
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Design School |
Professor George Havenith |
Body mapping of sensation and physiological response changes in different aged populations |
Health and Wellbeing; Energy |
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Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering |
Dr Marijana Dragosavac |
Continuous encapsulation of volatile flavours in novel biodegradable microcapsules |
Enabling Technologies; Health and Wellbeing |
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Business and Economics |
Dr Ahmad Hassan Ahmad |
Financial inclusion, poverty alleviation and development in West Africa |
Secure and Resilient Societies |
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Civil and Building Engineering |
Dr Alessandro Palmeri |
Multi-hazard performance-based optimization of modular structures |
Changing Environments and Infrastructure |
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Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering |
Dr Felipe Iza |
Portable gas plasma devices for microbial inactivation |
Health and Wellbeing; Secure and Resilient Societies |
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Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering |
Dr Huayong Zhao
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Liquid nitrogen enhanced powertrain systems – applying cold energy for optimum efficiency |
Energy |
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Science |
Dr Mark Platt |
Development of a sensitive and specific blood test for diagnosis and asymptomatic carrier detection of prion diseases using high affinity aptamers against PrPSc |
Enabling Technologies; Health and Wellbeing |
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Social, Political and Geographical Sciences |
Professor Darren Smith |
Communities of resilience? Who lives in housing in multiple occupation (HMO), and where are the HMOs? |
Communication, Culture and Citizenship; Secure and Resilient Societies |
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Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences |
Dr Stacy Clemes |
Stand out in class – reducing sitting time in the classroom environment |
Health and Wellbeing |
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Arts, English and Drama |
Dr Gillian Whiteley |
Networking Eden: Urban growing as a model for communal belonging |
Communication, Culture and Citizenship; Health and Wellbeing; Changing Environments and Infrastructure |