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
RESEARCH VISIT TO SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: CRISTINA COKER
Exeter Cohort 5 student Cristina Coker benefited from a brief research visit to the USA during the latter stages of her funded studentship. Her destination was Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. This connection had arisen through an approach from Scripps researcher Dr Adam Young, who was interested in Cristina’s […]
PhD Success: Juliana Marcal
Congratulations to Juliana Marcal (Cohort 5, Bath) for successfully defending her thesis on 22nd August 2024. Juliana’s PhD thesis is entitled “Urban water security assessment: a downscaled approach”. Well done, Juliana!
PhD Success: Josie Ashe
Congratulations to Josie Ashe (Cohort 1, Exeter) for successfully defending her thesis on 10th July 2024. Josie’s PhD thesis is entitled “Extracting value from patterns in routinely collected, high-frequency water quality data in rivers supplying drinking water treatment works”. Well done, Josie!
PhD Success: William Addison-Atkinson
Congratulations to William Addison-Atkinson (Cohort 5, Exeter) for successfully defending his thesis on 21st June 2024. Will’s PhD thesis is entitled “An Integrated Approach to Health Risk Assessment for Sewer Flooding”. Well done, Will!
PhD Success: Vasilis Koukoravas
Congratulations to Vasilis Koukoravas (Cohort 4, Exeter) for successfully defending his thesis on 19th March 2024. Vasilis’ PhD thesis is entitled “Hydraulic Modelling, Sectorisation, Interventions for Assessment and Improvement of Equity in Intermittent Water Supply Systems”. Well done, Vasilis!
RESEARCH VISIT TO UNIVERSITY OF PORTO: VIVIEN MAERTENS
Bath Cohort 5 student Vivien Maertens’ research visit destination was Porto in Portugal, where she was hosted by Prof Paulo Rosa Santos and Prof Tiago Ferradosa in the University of Porto’s Faculty of Engineering. Vivien’s PhD is on ‘Optimisation of Deep-Water Offshore Wind Systems’ with a special focus on internal waves (which can occur off the coast […]
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
