University of Bath to receive £25 million to train tomorrow’s research leaders
Two Centres for Doctoral Training are to receive funds from the EPSRC, University, government, industry and overseas institutions to train up to 200 students.
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Study to explore if circular economy can meet needs of UK's buildings
A new £6 million project will explore the extent to which the circular economy can be achieved by the UK’s building stock.
New materials including fungi-based insulation to be tested for sustainable building potential
INBUILT project launches to transform European sustainable building practices, testing the suitability and lifetime impacts of natural and recycled materials
New £13m Centre of Excellence in water-based community health monitoring to open
Centre will develop a nationwide early warning system for diseases using water-based systems
Bath CDT in Sustainable Chemical Technologies contributes four times its investment to UK economy
The CDT has almost three times the national rate for engineering and physical sciences PhD graduates working in industry or the private sector.
‘Lab on a chip’ genetic test device can identify viruses within three minutes with highest accuracy
Compact genetic testing device created for Covid-19 could be used to detect a range of pathogens, or conditions including cancer.
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From innovation centres working directly with industry to bring products to market and decarbonise industry, to real-time monitoring of chemical reactions and improvement of membranes, our projects are interdisciplinary in nature, crossing traditional boundaries between science and engineering to develop new sustainable technologies.
We design molecules, materials and manufacturing processes to enable a circular economy and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, and take a whole-systems perspective to measuring and embedding sustainability in decision making, using methods from industrial ecology to understand the full environmental footprint of our products and activities.
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