Overview
Our research cuts across the expertise of our School and Faculty, to identify and seek solutions to the wide range of complex sustainability-related problems associated with current and future cities, both in the UK and globally. We encourage Ph.D. candidates to take an active role in our School's research community, in areas currently ranging from climate change and resilience to smart cities, integrated urban infrastructure, mechanical engineering and tribology, technology, health sciences, and medical engineering, society, and culture, planning and architecture.
Additional Descriptions
We have a large multidisciplinary academic team ready to support you in your studies working across our Future Cities Research Network (FCRN) and research groups.
FCRN brings together Ph.D. researchers and academic, teaching, and research staff from across our School of Engineering and the Built Environment and beyond. Our aim is to investigate and generate best practice and policy-relevant evidence to understand and effectively respond to the complex urban challenges for sustainable and resilient urban futures.
The approach FCRN takes to research is grounded in the multidisciplinary work with industry, third sector organizations, and policymakers, using collaborative research methodologies that treat end users as partners in the research process and not as subjects to be studied. In this way, the findings from our projects have immediate relevance and impact on the societal issues they are addressing.
Research within FCRN focuses on the following key themes:
- Smart Cities
- Urban Resilience
- Sustainable Communities
- Sustainable Technology and Manufacturing
- Building Performance
- Adaptive Reuse
- Quality of Life
We're also carrying out research in the following areas:
- Built Environment
- Engineering Analysis Simulation and Tribology
- Medical Engineering
- Telecommunications Engineering
Throughout the year the FCRN hosts and supports a range of activities, including invited lectures and lunchtime seminars, collaborative workshops, and training and mentoring opportunities.
In addition to our Engineering and the Built Environment Ph.D., we've also identified a range of innovative research project opportunities for you as a postgraduate researcher.
We also offer the opportunity to combine doctoral research with your full-time career, making a substantial contribution to the development of professional practice in your area, through our Professional Doctorate in Science and Engineering DProf.
Your faculty
The Faculty of Science & Engineering is one of the largest of the four faculties at Anglia Ruskin University. Whether you choose to study with us full-time or part-time, on-campus or at a distance, there’s an option whatever your level – from a foundation degree, BSc, MSc, Ph.D., or professional doctorate.
Whichever course you pick, you’ll gain the theory and practical skills needed to progress with confidence. Join us and you could find yourself learning in the very latest laboratories or on field trips or work placements with well-known and respected companies. You may even have the opportunity to study abroad.
Everything we do in the faculty has a singular purpose: to provide a world-class environment to create, share and advance knowledge in science, technology, and engineering fields. This is key to all of our futures.
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