📋 Tender Overview
Funded Value6761084Funded PeriodOct 19 - Mar 28FunderEPSRCProject StatusActiveProject CategoryTraining GrantProject ReferenceEPS02302X1Our infrastructure is central to the economic prosperity of the nation and to the flourishing of a stable yet dynamic civil society. Its interconnected strands - the energy transportation water sanitation and communication networks that provide access to services and markets and which underpin the securities of daily life - must be not only affordable and reliable but also resilient against threats such as technological uncertainty environmental causes economic and political change and demographic and societal change unfolding in an increasingly uncertain world.FIBE2 CDT will lead a paradigm shift in the approach to infrastructure resilience through the creation of an inspirational doctoral training programme for talented cohorts from diverse academic and social backgrounds to conduct world-class cutting-edge and industry-relevant research. Our goal is to develop the infrastructure professionals of the future equipped with a versatile and cross-disciplinary skillset to meet the most complex emerging challenges harness the full value of existing infrastructure and contribute effectively to better infrastructure decision-making in the UK. The programmes technical focus will exploit high-level interconnected research themes in advanced infrastructure materials rethinking design construction digitised civil engineering whole-life performance built environment and global challenges along high-level crosscutting themes in emerging technologies performance to data to knowledge research across scales and risk and uncertainty.In FIBE2 CDT we offer a radical rethink to deliver innovation for the cross-disciplinary and interconnected challenges in resilient infrastructure. Our 13 MResPhD programme proposes a new approach to infrastructure research where students from different disciplines proactively forge new training and research collaborations. FIBE2 is inspired by the paradigm of a 3D T shaped engineer embodying a combination of depth and breadth of knowledge augmented by our new thinking around cross-disciplinary training and research. High level Infrastructure Engineering concepts will be interlinked and related to the detailed technical fundamentals that underpin them in bespoke core and elective modules. Cohort-based learning will bridge across the wider environmental societal economic business and policy issues within the even broader context of ethics responsible innovation and EDI. These depth and breadth elements are interwoven and brought together through problem-based challenges using large-scale cross-disciplinary infrastructure projects. Individual student plans will be carefully crafted to harmonise the specificity of PhD research with the need for expansive understanding of threats and opportunities. The development of Resilient FIBE2 CDT stud
