To thrive, cities need well-designed, integrated infrastructure systems, both within them at the point of service delivery and between them for the transport of people, goods, water, energy and data. The delivery of the £500bn UK Infrastructure Pipeline to drive growth, prosperity and productivity requires a new type of professional.
Working with Universities and industry partners in the UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC), the UKCRIC Doctoral Skills Network underpins a network of doctoral researchers, that together will build a broader doctoral community and share developmental opportunities beyond those already offered through EPSRC CDTs. The Doctoral Skills Network will offer doctoral students and early career researchers innovative and flexible, training programme with an ethos of Responsible Innovation and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) at its core.
We will support the training of future professionals with technical interdisciplinary skills and an understanding of how to make our cities productive, sustainable, resilient and healthy places for people to live. In a training environment based in the facilities within the UKCRIC network of Universities and working in close collaboration with industry, we will support the development of a cadre of well-networked engineers who will help situate the UK as an innovative, prosperous, and healthy nation.
Staff, working in collaboration with industry representatives, will adopt a team teaching approach to enhance student understanding of the complexity of the projects, through emphasising the interactions between sectors as part of an infrastructure Nexus.
CDT SIS University of Southampton