CIWEM accredited course
WELCOME TO THE WISE CDT
Awarded “Good” – the highest possible assessment – in EPSRC’s 2017 Mid-Term Review
Up to 20 four-year fully funded PhD studentships per year
Taught Programme in Exeter for Year 1
Research project in Years 2-4 in an internationally-renowned water research centre
Annual residential summer-school, research seminars and social events
Transferable Skills Training
Recent News
2019-20 Industry Day
The 2019-20 WISE CDT Industry Day took place on 12th February at the Bristol Marriott Royal Hotel. For the first time this was designed as a shared event with Arup and WRc, who are joint conveners of Wet Networks Bristol. This combined event aimed to ensure wide-ranging industry attendance that covered the breadth of the […]
SWINDON SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2020
On Friday 21st February, members of the University of Bath’s new Centre for Infrastructure, Geotechnics and Water Engineering (IGWE) took part in ‘TOMORROW’, Swindon’s first Science Festival held at STEAM, the Museum of the Great Western Railway. Earlier in the year, Ioanna Stamataki (Research Associate and former WISE CDT Cohort 1 student) and James Rand […]
PhD Success: Olivia Milton-Thompson
Congratulations to Olivia Milton-Thompson (Cohort 2, Exeter) for successfully defending her thesis subject to minor corrections. Olivia’s thesis is entitled ‘Developing a risk assessment model using fuzzy logic to assess groundwater contamination from unconventional gas development in the UK’. Well done, Olivia!
PhD Success: Olivia Cooke
Congratulations to Olivia Cooke (Cohort 1, Bath) for successfully defending her thesis subject to minor corrections. Olivia’s thesis is entitled ‘Assessment and mitigation of stormwater runoff in an informal settlement’. Well done, Olivia!
PRIMaRE Summer School 2019: Santiago M Lopez
The Partnership for Research in Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) is a consortium of marine renewable energy experts across higher education, research and industry which have joined together to establish a ‘network of excellence’ centred in the south of the UK. Read on to hear Santiago M Lopez‘s experience of the 2019 PRIMaRE Summer School.
PHD SUCCESS: IOANNA STAMATAKI
Congratulations to Ioanna Stamataki (Cohort 1, Bath) for successfully defending her thesis subject to minor corrections. Ioanna’s thesis is entitled ‘Experimental and numerical investigation of flash floods and their interaction with urban settlements’. Well done, Ioanna!
WISE CDT provides a unique opportunity for students to participate in shaping their own research topic. This, coupled with the wide range of skills they will acquire by completing all that the postgraduate school offers, makes them very attractive prospective recruits for the Water industry.
WISE CDT exemplifies our aim to build a highly skilled workforce with industry partners through doctoral training.
Wessex Water is seeing the emergence of skills and knowledge gaps in common with other companies in the water sector…. The WISE CDT helps address these gaps by providing leading interdisciplinary training across the subject areas of water engineering and informatics which are vital for the future of this industry and highly pertinent to our company.
It’s immensely satisfying that WISE students continue to support the economic, environmental and social strategies of business with their cutting edge bespoke research
