Tomorrow’s timber: innovation and value from future forests

Could you company benefit from a doctoral trainee?

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is the UK's main agency for funding research in engineering and the physical sciences.

To help the design and engineering communities the Edinburgh Napier University, Bangor University and the University of Surrey propose to establish an EPSRC part funded Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) called 'Tomorrow’s timber – innovation and value from future forests'.

The purpose of this DTC is to train a new generation of highly-skilled, multi-disciplinary scientists and engineers. Emergent technology, techniques and research related to wood science and technology will be employed to meet the changing needs of the UK’s timber industries (and end users of wood products) into the next decade and beyond.
 
 What will industry get out of being part of the DTC
 
Partnering in the DTC will give the industrial partners unparalleled access to cutting edge research within the area of timber. Depending on the level of interaction this may either be research for the good of the industry as a whole, through to a research project being undertaken to solve a specific industrial problem with the student been embedded within the company. Again, depending of the type of interaction, the industrial partner will have the chance to own, or licence, the IP delivered from the projects. At all levels of interaction, the industrial partners will have access to the academic timber community through networking events and social media and this will help to develop a coherence within the community.

More subtly, having a student within your workplace leads to a vast amount of knowledge transfer to your other employees.

For more information please contact Graham Ormondroyd  at Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG or  email [email protected], by Sunday 15 July 2018.