Civil Engineering (Water Resources) MPhil, PhD

Program Overview

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Overview

Our School of Engineering has a successful research group that focuses on water.

The group is striving to make catchments, cities and infrastructure more productive, safer and sustainable

. Our mission is to foster, promote and conduct research of international quality. We attract high-quality graduates and researchers and train them to international standards.

Our range of expertise is broad and includes the development of practical responses to address global change challenges

. This is from a local all the way to the global scale.

Our research themes include:

flow and transport processes in surface and subsurface systems.

planning and control of hydraulic networks

sustainable management of the water environment, including urban, rural agricultural and forestry environments

climate change impact assessment, including flood

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environmental hazard assessment and mitigation, including landslide hazard

integrated surface and groundwater pollution controls

integrated assessment of coupled natural, technological and human systems

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Our research themes include:

catchment hydrology and sustainable management

flood risk and coastal management

climate change impacts and adaptation

We supervise MPhil and PhD students in the following areas:

flow and transport processes in surface and subsurface systems. This includes river mechanics and contamiNAt and sediment transport

planning and control of hydraulic networks

sustainable management of the water environment, including urban, rural agricultural and forestry environments

climate change impact assessment, including flood risk

environmental hazard assessment and mitigation, including landslide hazard

integrated surface and groundwater pollution controls

integrated assessment of coupled natural, technological and human systems

Our research has access to facilities and centres in the Newcastle Institute for Sustainability:

Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory

Centre for Earth Systems Engineering Research (CESER)

Centre for Land Use and Water Resources Research (CLUWRR)

View our Civil Engineering research water research pages.

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Program Outline

Your development

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Placement opportunities

We have extensive UK and international contacts. Our research can be carried out in collaboration with industry and government agencies. Research projects are supervised by staff with a wide range of industrial and academic experience.

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Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering (SAgE) researcher development programme

Each faculty offers a researcher development programme for its postgraduate research students. We have designed your programme to help you:

perform better as a researcher

boost your career prospects

broaden your impact

Through workshops and activities, it will build your transferable skills and increase your confidence.

You’ll cover:

techniques for effective research

methods for better collaborative working

essential professional standards and requirements

Your programme is flexible. You can adapt it to meet your changing needs as you progress through your doctorate.

Find out more about the SAgE researcher development programme

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Doctoral training and partnerships

There are opportunities to undertake your PhD at Newcastle within a:

Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)

Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP)

Being part of a CDT or DTP has many benefits:

they combine research expertise and training of a number of leading universities, academic schools and academics.

you’ll study alongside a cohort of other PhD students

they’re often interdisciplinary

your PhD may be funded

Find out more about doctoral training and partnerships

If there are currently opportunities available in your subject area you’ll find them when you search for funding in the fees and funding section on this course.

The following centres/partnerships below may have PhD opportunities available in your subject area in the future:

EPSRC Aura Centre for Doctoral Training in Offshore Wind Energy and the Environment

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Geospatial Systems

IAPETUS2 Doctoral Training Partnership

ONE Planet Doctoral Training Partnership

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Water Infrastructure and Resilience (WIRe)