Skills
The Research Councils UK Nanoscience Programme aims to supply a future pipeline of trained professionals in the nanoscience field. There is a strong ongoing desire to establish highly innovative, exciting training environments that draw on research excellence with a view to producing the skilled and talented researchers needed to address challenging problems that will be of benefit to the UK economy in the 21st century.
To support this, three Doctoral Training Centres have been funded through the Research Councils UK Nanoscience programme and these took in their first cohort of students in October 2009. The centres have the potential to rapidly establish an international reputation for doctoral training embedded within excellent research environments.
Nano Science and Technology Doctoral Training Centre – University of Cambridge
The Doctoral Training Centre works in collaboration with the following companies:
- Toshiba
- Kodak
- Microsoft
- DeLaRue
- Unilever
- Cambridge Display Technology
- Defense Science and Technology Laboratory
- Cambridge Integrated Knowledge Centre
- JPK Instruments
- Hitachi
- Nokia
- Thales
- Aixtron
- Nanoco Technologies
- TWI
- Sharp Laboratories of Europe
NOWNANO-DTC: North West Nanoscience Doctoral Training Centre – The University of Manchester
The Doctoral Training Centre at Manchester works in collaboration with the following companies:
- Graphene Industries
- Keithley Instruments
- Nanoco Technologies
- ACRAS (Italy)
- Unilever
- National Blood Services Tissue Services Smith and Nephew Biologics Division INEOS Healthcare
- Smith and Nephew Biologics Division INEOS Healthcare
Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials –The University of Bristol
The Doctoral Training Centre at Bristol works in collaboration with the following companies:
- Unilever
- Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
- Scandinavian Micro Biodevices ApS
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Henkel
- Bayer Schering Pharma
- Toyota
- Learning Science Ltd
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PhD students at Manchester DTC