By the start of the 3-year PhD, each student will have acquired a strong skills foundation through cohort and personalised training, carried out background and exploratory studies and generated a detailed plan of their PhD work programme in collaboration with their academic and industry supervisors.
To ensure delivery to meet user needs, the student will meet at least monthly with their academic and industry supervisors and agree half-yearly outward-facing deliverables. FIBE3 PhD students will spend ~80% of their time on their core technical research topic, with the remaining ~20% devoted to wider aligned research training activities namely:
- cohort integration studies evolving around the FIBE3 Roadmap,
- secondment to the industry partner to focus on application of the PhD work to industry-relevant projects;
- activities linked with the wider FIBE3 industry partners throughout the PhD years to continue to align the PhD work to industry needs;
- secondment to a national academic institution via the industry partner;
- secondment at an international academic organisation,
- engagement with policy makers and relevant stakeholders and
- further transferrable, RRI, TR and professional upskilling.
The objective is to enrich the students’ PhD research experience and ensure wider and stronger impact, application and benefits to the industry partners and to society.