Chosen by a distinguished panel, the Guide showcases the excellent student experience at Leeds. Alastair McCall, editor of the Good University Guide, said: "The University of Leeds thoroughly deserves this award for prioritising students' needs first to last. Outstanding student satisfaction levels do not happen by accident and reflect the emphasis placed here on getting...
CDT partners JBA Trust and JBA Consulting demonstrate the wave tank designed and tested by CDT students Will Booker, Thomas Goodfellow and Jacob van Alwon during their MSc team project. This tank is used to show the impact of coastal defences on flood risk. Three tanks are in use in the UK, and a fourth has been commissioned for...
The CDT held an induction event at Weetwood Hall on 19th-21st September for the new students in the third cohort. The activities included a briefing of the PhD project process, hands-on team building activities, talks from the Management Board, current PhD students and industry partners. We would like to thank Geoff Randall (Sellafield) and Dr...
The EPSRC CDTs in Fluid Dynamics at the University of Leeds and Imperial College London held their first annual joint UK Fluids Conference on 7th-9th September 2016. The Conference held at Imperial brought together over 180 Fluid Dynamics PhD students, industry partners and academics from around the UK. CDT students from Leeds in the first...
A team of scientists from the School of Earth and Environment are playing a leading role in a world-first field experiment in India, to improve weather and climate predictions of the monsoon. The group, led by Prof Doug Parker (CDT in Fluid Dynamics co-Director), forms part of the Anglo-Indian INCOMPASS project, which is making unprecedented...
Over 100 students, academic staff and industry partners attended the EPSRC Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) Poster Evening. Students from the following CDTs exhibited their MSc team project and PhD project posters: Bioenergy Complex Particulate Products & Processes (CP3) Fluid Dynamics Integrated Tribology Nuclear Fission – Next Generation Nuclear Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine –...
CDT supervisor, Prof Stephen Mobbs, and his colleagues have been able to measure the climatic effect of a wind farm on the local environment for the first time. They focused on Black Law wind farm, Scotland, which has been operating since 2005. With 54 turbines and a generation capacity of 124 megawatts, it is one...
A mathematical model developed at the University of Leeds could make it possible to design safer versions of the 'fast ships' used in many vital offshore operations. Travelling at up to 30 knots, fast ships are used for search and rescue, anti-piracy and for transporting wind farm, oil and gas personnel. These ships are especially...
Students from the University of Leeds' EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Fluid Dynamics have spent three days at the Materials Processing Institute (MPI) in Teesside, with further visits planned between now and July as their project progresses. Led by Professor Onno Bokhove, CDT students Paul Allen, Caroline Shields and Fryderyk Wilczynski spent time...
First year student, Rory Hetherington, and second year student, Caitlin Chalk, share what a typical week as a CDT student is like. Read the article here.
