(Structured PhD) Civil Engineering—full-time and part-time
The Structured PhD, full-time, is a 4-year programme which offers added value to the core component of doctoral training. Students on this programme are offered disciplinary or dissertation specific modules, as well as generic and transferable skills designed to meet the needs of an employment market that is wider than academia.
The programme is flexible and student centred, as candidates choose their own pathways in consultation with their Supervisor and Graduate Research Committee.
Research activity spans a broad spectrum of civil engineering subjects, which include (but are not limited to):-
- Concrete
- Steel and timber structures
- Wind engineering
- Environmental engineering
- Highway engineering
- Geotechnics
- Earthquake engineering
- Building energy management
- Offshore and coastal engineering
- Construction management
- Advanced materials
- Computational mechanics
This topical and strategic research is funded by industrial partners and several national and international funding agencies, including the European Union (EU). Some of the research is interdisciplinary and is aligned with the university's major research themes; for example, some academic staff work within research institutes such as the Environmental Change Institute, and the Ryan Institute for Marine Science research.
