Fully Funded & Industry Sponsored PhD Scholarship in Ultrasonic Testing and Data Analysis for Nuclear Industry

Closing date for applications: 20 May 2022
PhD start date: September 2022

We are offering an industrial PhD scholarships funded by the National Nuclear Laboratory and the Sellafield Ltd, which manages the nuclear fuel reprocessing, nuclear waste storage and nuclear decommissioning. The industrial partners expect the PhD project to develop into a real world product, where the successful PhD candidate will be able to lead the project beyond the PhD timeline.

This fully funded PhD studentship is only available to UK nationals and EU citizens. Unfortunately, we cannot offer this studentship to non-UK or non-EU applicants.

The successful PhD candidate will benefit from the following:

• Industry sponsored cutting-edge research project
• Mentoring from industry on the application and context of research
• 3-year studentships with £15,000 - £18,000 per annum living stipend (based on teaching support)
• Payment of all tuition fees
• Consumables and travel budget to support additional specialist research training courses, access to specialist equipment and travel to international conferences, seminars and workshops
• Bespoke technical training
• Enterprise and innovation skills training
• Transferable skills development opportunities to increase employability
• State-of-the-art research facilities in the centre of London
• Collaboration with other top UK universities (University of Leeds and University of Warwick)
• Excellent career prospects on completion of the PhD within the UK nuclear sector

About LSBU

The School of Engineering at London South Bank University is an ambitious and progressive centre of research strength, ranked 25^th nationally for research power in the last Research Excellence Framework. The division of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is one of the best in the UK. The division is ranked as the number 4 and number 5 on the Guardian best UK universities League Table 2022 and 2021 respectively. The London South Bank University have a fabulous central London location and are looking for talented potential students interested in research to work with our academic faculty in areas of strength.