DTP 2018-19 University of Sheffield

Sheffield has research strengths across Engineering and the Physical Sciences, evidenced by the outcome of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (a national peer review exercise).
We have both disciplinary and interdisciplinary groups, collaborating within and beyond Sheffield with the aim of making a broader contribution to, and impact on, the major scientific, social, environmental and technological challenges of our age.
Opportunities funded from the EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership include:
- supervisor-led research student projects;
- research student networks in strategically important and interdisciplinary areas, such as engineering approaches to solving healthcare challenges and future energy technology;
- CASE partnership awards, which enable research students to work closely with a company or other partner, on a problem which the company has helped to define and spending some time gaining experience of a company setting;
- undergraduate research experience awards;
- University of Sheffield - EPSRC doctoral prize fellowships, designed to provide a year's funding for recent EPSRC-funded PhD graduates to identify and undertake an independent research project.
Research students at Sheffield benefit from excellent Professional Development opportunities. Our Think Ahead programme won a Times Higher Education award for outstanding support for Early Career Researchers. Research student needs are identified and met through the Doctoral Development Programme. We take a twin-track approach, recognising that some research students aspire to an academic career whilst others aspire to either research or non-research careers outside of the university sector. It is critical that research students gain higher level skills such as leadership, collaboration, critical and strategic thinking and that they develop a sense of self-confidence and professional integrity, as these skills will be required whatever career path they ultimately pursue. All of our professional development opportunities are mapped to the national Researcher Development Framework.
Think Ahead Programme: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ris/ecr/training
Doctoral Development Programme (DDP): http://www.shef.ac.uk/ris/pgr/ddpportal/home Compulsory DDP module on Research Ethics and Integrity: http://www.shef.ac.uk/ris/pgr/ddpportal/reit
Researcher Development Framework: https://rdf.ris.shef.ac.uk/
Our doctoral research opportunities are advertised on our prospective doctoral research student webpages: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships/projects

We advertise our scholarship funding between November and the end of January each year, with decisions made on funding in February and March. The University encourages collaboration with non-academic partners via CASE awards and considers these a priority. Funding is distributed between CASE awards, post-doctoral prize fellowships, funding for academic departments and faculties to support strategic areas or strength or growth or larger scale (usually interdisciplinary) networks or projects.
The distribution is across Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.