Current research degree projects
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
Explore our current postgraduate research degree and PhD opportunities.
This PhD project aims to open new frontiers in nanophotonics by designing and fabricating a new class of miniaturized optical sources.
This project aims to study how light propagating in the hollow-core fibres interacts with vibrations and sound waves.
Floods have been identified as one of the most dangerous hazards in the UK causing potentially billions of pounds of economic and social damage per year. Flood risk is becoming an increasing concern as studies suggest that flood frequency and magnitude are changing over time in the UK, with events that would have been rare in the recent past seeming to become less rare now.
Globally soft coastlines represent major regions of population and biodiversity. They are under threat from rapid environmental and population growth. This research will combine long (600yr) sources of evidence found in documentary and sediment archives to fully understand how climate change – mediated via storm and surge driven flooding resulted in change to the physical, ecological and socio-economics and community response of soft coastal systems.
Coastal flooding is the second largest non-malicious risk to the UK. Accurate coastal forecast information is critical to enabling EA Incident Managers to assess coastal flood risk in real time and take appropriate mitigating actions.
To explore how targeted climate adaptation of critical infrastructure may reduce systemic vulnerability, this studentship will measure and model disruption of transportation networks under increasing extremes in coastal flood hazard, using a novel method for analysing network connectivity.