About the Project
Duration: 3 years fixed term, Full-time
Application deadline: ongoing (starting September 2016)
Informal enquiries are essential before application; contact Dr. Shuli Liu to discuss this opportunity.
Congratulations on taking your first steps toward a Research Degree with Coventry’s Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing. As an ambitious and innovative University, we’re investing an initial £100m into our new research strategy, ‘Excellence with Impact’. Through original approaches from world-leading experts, we’re aiming for our research to make a tangible difference to the way we live. As a research student you are an integral part of Coventry’s lively and diverse research community and contribute to our reputation for excellence. With our exceptional facilities and superb support mechanisms you are afforded every opportunity for academic success.
THE PROJECT
This research will be carried out in parallel through an EPSRC funded project on the topic of Smarter Household within the collaboration with University of Birmingham, Aston University, University of Portsmouth and University of Edinburgh, and industry support from EON, and Orbit House Group. The candidate will join a big research group with multi-disciplinary expertise. Proposed project will look into the novel interaction method to engage and impact on end user energy behaviour. The main research question will be how much effective are these tools/interaction methods will be and how they can bring changes in the ways energy is being used. Project will evaluate the smarter meter and sensors practical application with residential house and how this will have the real benefit to the householders. Further it will investigate the impact of novel interaction methods such as gamification on behaviour transition of end users because users will be well informed to make decisions. The 3D dashboard and the Game will be developed through the EPSRC project and the PhD candidate will collect and analysis the property energy consumption data before and after the households engaging with smart meters and sensors, 3D dashboard and the Game.
ABOUT THE CENTRE/DEPARTMENT
The Centre for Low Impact Building’s (CLIB) aims to be an academic and industry partner of choice in delivering real solutions to close the design versus in-use performance gap in the built environment.
The Centre for Low Impact Buildings is seeking exceptional and motivated scholars who wish to engage with global, policy or industry related research that will demonstrate a measurable sustainable improvement in the performance of the built environment. Our key research themes are: building materials or low carbon technologies including their dynamic performance; new standards of building performance involving owners and occupiers; resilience and adaptation to climate change; or, pervasive data in sensoring and monitoring buildings including human computer interaction. It is our aim to improve the sustainability and performance of the built environment
CLIB staffs enjoy a vibrant environment of collaboration across academic disciplines, other universities, practitioner and industry to ensure that our research has proven impact on the global challenge for sustainability of the built environment that includes human factors.
The school of Energy, Construction and Environment and the Centre for Low Impact Buildings has an established reputation in materials and structures research, offering arguably the largest structures laboratory in the West Midlands and excellent links to industry. The project counts with all the necessary research equipment and materials and test facilities. The candidate can draw from expertise from the department and beyond.
SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS
Successful applicants will have:
-A minimum of a 2:1 first degree in a relevant discipline/subject area with a minimum 60% mark in the Project element or equivalent with a minimum 60% overall module average, or
-A Masters Degree in a relevant subject area will be considered as an equivalent. The Masters must have been attained with overall marks at merit level (60%) minimum. In addition, the dissertation or equivalent element in the Masters must also have been attained with a mark at merit level (60%) minimum.
-The potential to engage in innovative research and to complete the PhD within a prescribed period of study
-Language proficiency (IELTS overall minimum score of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component).
Additionally:
-knowledge and/or experience in the subject
-a good knowledge of Mechanical Engineering or Building Service Engineering or Building Physics
-experimental, modelling or analytical experience in handling large data and, Matlab, MySQL, or engaging with households will be advantageous
-experience of data analysis about energy consumption and survey questionnaire of human behaviours.
ELIGIBILITY & APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Application Procedure:
To apply, you must submit an application form and covering letter, plus a 2000-word proposal addressing the research theme.
Application information can be found in our how to apply section. Before completing the application please contact Dr. Shuli Liu (cc'ing [Email Address Removed] when you do) for an initial informal discussion about the opportunity.
Eligibility:
All UK/EU/International students are eligible to apply that meet the academic requirements, the eligibility criteria can be found here: http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-students/research-entry-criteria/?id=88841
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