[Academic] FW: CDT Applied Photonics Project Proposal Call

Fri Nov 1 10:18:02 GMT 2024

Dear all
I am pleased to announce the call for project proposals for the CDT in Applied Photonics is now open. As an industry facing CDT, all projects are in collaboration with industry partners where both the University and Company make a financial contribution to the studentship. The CDT supports both EngD and PhD models; however our focus and strategy has been supporting EngD students with our industry partners. In the last CDT 2019-2023 Strathclyde had 13 EngDs and 1 PhD.  In year 1 students receive the standard UKRI stipend; however, in years 2,3&4 this is enhanced to ~£27,237 for EngD and ~£21,237 for PhD (based on AY2024/25 numbers) making this is a very attractive stipend level for applicants.
Our renewed funding has a focus on photonic sensing and metrology but we do consider a wide range of projects from image processing for industrial or healthcare applications, to optical sensing, biophotonic sensing and laser development for sensing and metrology applications etc. Please see the email below with links to the project proposal form<https://cdtphotonics.hw.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/CDTAP-Project-Proposal-Form-2025-26.docx> and guidance and financial information<https://cdtphotonics.hw.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/CDTPhotonics_Leaflet_AW.pdf>.
If you have any questions, myself or Ralf Bauer would be happy to try to answer them. We look forward to discussing future project proposals with you. Please note I need to review and approve the proposal form for the Strathclyde funding component before it is submitted to the CDT for consideration. Finally, please feel free to forward to any other colleagues that this may be of interest to.
Regards

Gordon
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Dr. Gordon M. H. Flockhart
Academic Director - Engineering Academy, JW604A
http://www.strath.ac.uk/engineering/studywithus/engineeringacademy/
CDT in Applied Photonics Deputy Director
https://cdtphotonics.hw.ac.uk/

Centre for Microsystems and Photonics, R219B
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
204 George Street
Glasgow  G1 1XW,  UK

Tel: +44 141 548 4267
Email: gordon.flockhart at strath.ac.uk<mailto:gordon.flockhart at strath.ac.uk>
www:  CMP Website Link<http://www.strath.ac.uk/research/subjects/electronicelectricalengineering/instituteforsensorssignalscommunications/centreformicrosystemsphotonics/>

From: Low, Alison H <A.H.Low at hw.ac.uk<mailto:A.H.Low at hw.ac.uk>>
Sent: 29 October 2024 12:58
To: Gordon Flockhart <gordon.flockhart at strath.ac.uk<mailto:gordon.flockhart at strath.ac.uk>>
Subject: Call for EngD / PhD Research Project Proposals

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Dear Gordon,

Call for EngD / PhD Research Project Proposals

The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Applied Photonics is a consortium of academic and industrial researchers with the objective of supporting industrially-informed doctoral research projects related to photonics and optics. The Centre has been continuously funded by EPSRC and Industry since 2021 and was refunded as the UK CDT in Photonic Sensing and Metrology. The consortium of six universities is now joined by the University of Huddersfield and by NPL, who are world leaders in optical metrology.

We are now inviting proposals from companies for new EngD and PhD research projects.  To join the CDT, students apply to specific projects, so to attract candidates for entry in September 2025, we request that industrial project proposals reach us by 30 November 2024.  Any company with a research activity in the UK is eligible to participate.  Full details of the level of financial support required to host a project, along with further information can be found on the Industrial Partner page<http://cdtphotonics.hw.ac.uk/propose-a-project/> of the CDT website.

The research projects will offer benefits to your company by:

* Increasing the research portfolio in a cost-effective way

* Providing access to University laboratories, facilities and researchers

* Creating opportunities to make contacts with other sponsor companies

* Aiding the retention of existing staff who wish to study for a doctorate degree and continue with their employment

Students entering in September 2025 will complete their technical taught courses by end of June 2026, with EngD students relocating permanently to their company's site shortly afterwards and remaining there until the end of their project in August 2029. PhD students are based in the university of their Academic Supervisor.

Project proposals can be submitted using a Project Proposal Form found on the Industrial Partner page<http://cdtphotonics.hw.ac.uk/propose-a-project/>. The form can then be emailed to cdtphotonics at hw.ac.uk<mailto:cdtphotonics at hw.ac.uk>. Industrial project supervisors are required to have taken Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training before the project can be approved by the CDT. The CDT can provide access to on-line training for industrial supervisors who have not already had this training provided by the CDT or by their employer or a third-party.

I would be grateful if you would circulate details of our Centre as widely as possible to the relevant individuals within your organisation.

Detailed information about the CDT can be found on our website<http://cdtphotonics.hw.ac.uk/> and Annual Report<https://indd.adobe.com/view/3ff4cc4a-ff3d-4ad0-b7b6-ca2a68327b56>. Please do not hesitate to contact us at CDTphotonics at hw.ac.uk<mailto:CDTphotonics at hw.ac.uk> if you have specific questions relating to how your company can engage with our Centre.

Yours sincerely

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Dr Bill MacPherson

Director, EPSRC CDT in Applied Photonics

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