Students considering PhD study at Manchester are invited to apply to join a new Centre for Doctoral Training in Computer Science, the first of its kind in the UK.

The centre, funded by a £2.2 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), will admit at least 75 students over the next five years. Its mission is to train the computer scientists of the future.

Students admitted to the centre will be given the chance to become ‘the complete researcher’, and will be supported by funded studentships to cover the four years duration of the programme.

Students will receive training in all aspects of the research process; creativity and innovation, research problem solving in collaboration with industrial users and carrying out research with real world impact. At the same time students will complete significant research in collaboration with world-leading academic staff.

Further information on funding opportunities and the application process will follow shortly.

To register your interest at this early stage please contact: chris.farrington@cs.man.ac.uk

CDT Background

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The University won the grant despite strong competition from other leading computer science departments across the UK. The awarding panel felt strongly that the proposal represented an excellent opportunity to make a real impact to doctoral training in the UK. Professor Steve Furber, director of the new centre, said: "We are delighted to have been chosen by EPSRC for this flagship Centre for Doctoral Training in Computer Science, and look forward to rising to the challenge of using this opportunity to transform computing PhDs in the UK."

Dr Jonathan Shapiro, manager of the centre, said: "Manchester Computer Science has unsurpassed breadth of research and the highest level of government research funding in the UK, and now houses the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Computer Science. This makes Manchester an excellent to place to carry out a PhD in Computer Science.”

The funding came from the EPSRC’s Information and Communications Technologies programme.