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Newcastle University: Civil Engineering (Water Resources)

Institution Newcastle University View institution profile
Department School of Engineering (Civil)
Web Visit Newcastle University website
Study type Research

Summary

We have a broad range of civil engineering water resource research. Our expertise ranges from climate modelling to developing practical responses to global change challenges. Our research has global consequences and our academics are leaders in their field.

Our School of Engineering has a successful research group that focuses on water resources. Our mission is to foster, promote and conduct research of international quality. This means that we attract high quality graduates and researchers and train them to international standards.

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 contaminant 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 within 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).

Delivery:

We offer the MPhil and PhD on a full time and part time basis. You will have formal training in research skills and methods. Discipline-specific training is available if you need it. You may be able to undertake paid laboratory demonstrating to gain teaching experience.

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About us
A Global Top 125 university (QS World University Rankings 2023), Newcastle University is dedicated to excellence, creativity and innovation, pioneering solutions that can change our world.

Through world-class research it tackles some of the biggest challenges facing society globally, leading in its key strengths of ageing and health, data, energy, cities, culture and creative arts. The UK’s Research Excellence Framework 2021 assessed its research as world-leading with outstanding impact.

Through high quality teaching it …

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