2016 mid-term review
In 2016, EPSRC undertook a mid-term review of CDTs funded in 2013. This formed part of the monitoring and evaluating of the CDTs, the purpose of which includes a health check of the centres, as well as an opportunity for them to demonstrate progress and impact in their areas. The review was chaired by Professor Mark Smith, Vice-Chancellor at Lancaster University. The panel, were tremendously impressed by the quality of the work undertaken at the CDTs.
Review outcome
The review committee panel considered the inputs to the CDT Evaluation Framework from each of the CDTs and gave an initial indication on which CDTs to have a more in-depth discussion with, rating them: Good, Satisfactory or Interview required. These ratings reflected a number of factors and were not simply a reflection of the quality of student training being carried out by the CDT. In many cases the discussions between the panel and those CDTs invited to interview helped clarify any discussion points identified so the published table does not reflect the overall view of the CDTs by the panel post-interview.
As a result of the CDT mid-term review, actions varied from re-profiling investments to further panel assurance through site visits, with elements of best practice being incorporated into the 2018 CDT exercise.
2016 mid-term review initial ratings (published following a judgement from the Information Commissioner)
FOIA and EIR Decision notice (Ref: FS50707186) (PDF - 225KB)
| CDT Grant Ref | Organisation Name | PI Name | Grant Title | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EP/L014823/1 | University of Leeds | Tipper, Professor JL | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine; Innovation in Medical and Biological Engineering | Good |
| EP/L014904/1 | The University of Manchester | Hardman, Dr MJ | EPSRC and MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Regenerative Medicine | Interview |
| EP/L014912/1 | University of Leeds | Jones, Professor JM | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Bioenergy | Good |
| EP/L014998/1 | Loughborough University | Conway, Professor P | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Embedded Intelligence | Good |
| EP/L01503X/1 | University of Edinburgh | O'Boyle, Professor M | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism | Good |
| EP/L015072/1 | Loughborough University | Coopman, Dr K | EPSRC and MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Regenerative Medicine | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015099/1 | Swansea University | Sullivan, Professor JH | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Industrial Functional Coatings: COATED2 | Good |
| EP/L015102/1 | University of Bristol | Partridge, Professor IK | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Composites Manufacture | Interview |
| EP/L015110/1 | University of St Andrews | Hooley, Dr CA | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics: Renewal of the CM-DTC | Good |
| EP/L015129/1 | University College London | Treleaven, Professor P | EPSRC CENTRE for DOCTORAL TRAINING in Financial Computing & Analytics (covering Computational finance, Financial ICT, Regulation, Retail) | Good |
| EP/L015153/1 | University of Birmingham | Fryer, Professor PJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Formulation Engineering | Satisfactory |
| EP/L01517X/1 | University College London | Lowe, Professor RJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Demand (LoLo) | Satisfactory |
| EP/L01520X/1 | University College London | Lye, Professor G | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Bioprocess Engineering Leadership | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015218/1 | University College London | Dalby, Professor PA | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Emergent Macromolecular Therapies (EMT): A National CDT linked to an EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015226/1 | King's College London | Schnabel, Professor JA | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L015234/1 | University College London | Singer, Professor M | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Geometry and Number Theory at the Interface | Good |
| EP/L015242/1 | University College London | Browne, Dr DE | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Delivering Quantum Technologies | Interview |
| EP/L015277/1 | Imperial College London | Skinner, Professor SJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Advanced Characterisation of Materials | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015285/1 | University of Leeds | Roberts, Professor KJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Complex Particulate Products and Processes | Good |
| EP/L015293/1 | University of Bristol | Richards, Dr A | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Autonomous and Robotic Systems - FARSCOPE | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015307/1 | University of Warwick | Unwin, Professor P | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Molecular Analytical Science | Good |
| EP/L015315/1 | University of Warwick | Newton, Professor ME | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diamond Science and Technology | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L015323/1 | Queen's University of Belfast | Bowman, Professor R | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Photonic Integration and Advanced Data Storage | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L015331/1 | University of Exeter | Sambles, Professor JR | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Electromagnetic Metamaterials | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L01534X/1 | University of Nottingham | Tuck, Professor CJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing | Good |
| EP/L015358/1 | Newcastle University | Watson, Professor P | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cloud Computing for Big Data | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015366/1 | University of Bristol | Booker-Milburn, Professor KI | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Chemical Synthesis | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L015374/1 | University of Warwick | Richardson, Dr M | EPSRC and MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematics for Real-World Systems | Good |
| EP/L015382/1 | University of Southampton | Fangohr, Professor H | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Computational Modelling | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015390/1 | The University of Manchester | Livens, Professor F | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Nuclear Fission- Next Generation Nuclear | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015412/1 | Cranfield University | Jeffrey, Professor P | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Engineering for the Water Sector (STREAM IDC) | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015455/1 | University College London | Seeds, Professor AJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems | Good |
| EP/L015463/1 | University of Nottingham | Benford, Professor S | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in My Life in Data | Good |
| EP/L015471/1 | University of Strathclyde | McArthur, Professor S | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Power Networks and Smart Grids | Good |
| EP/L01548X/1 | The University of Manchester | Grigorieva, Professor I | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Science and Applications of Graphene and Related Nanomaterials (GrapheneNOWNANO) | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L015498/1 | Imperial College London | Ces, Dr O | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Physical Sciences Innovation in Chemical Biology for Bioindustry and Healthcare | Good |
| EP/L01551X/1 | University of Liverpool | Durose, Professor K | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in New and Sustainable PV | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015536/1 | Durham University | McLeish, Professor T | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Soft Matter and Functional Interfaces | Good |
| EP/L015544/1 | University of Bristol | Hayden, Professor S | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015552/1 | University of Cambridge | Payne, Professor MC | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Computational Methods for Materials Science | Interview |
| EP/L015579/1 | Imperial College London | Mostofi, Dr A | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Theory and Simulation of Materials | Good |
| EP/L015587/1 | Imperial College London | Cawley, Professor P | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantitative NDE | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015595/1 | University of Strathclyde | Connolly, Professor P | EPSRC CDT in Medical Devices & Health Technologies | Interview |
| EP/L015633/1 | University of Nottingham | Moody, Professor CJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemistry | Interview |
| EP/L015684/1 | University of Bath | Kyprianou, Professor AE | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Statistical Applied Mathematics at Bath (SAMBa) | Good |
| EP/L015692/1 | Lancaster University | Tawn, Professor J | EPSRC CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN STATISTICS & OPERATIONAL RESEARCH IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INDUSTRY (STOR-i) | Good |
| EP/L015722/1 | University of Oxford | Logan, Professor DE | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Theory and Modelling in Chemical Sciences. | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015730/1 | University of Bristol | Turner, Dr P | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Engineering | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L015749/1 | University of Birmingham | Steinberger-Wilckens, Professor R | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fuel Cells and their Fuels - Clean Power for the 21st Century | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015803/1 | University of Oxford | Please, Professor CP | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Industrially Focused Mathematical Modelling | Good |
| EP/L015811/1 | University of Oxford | Chen, Professor G | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Partial Differential Equations: Analysis and Applications | Good |
| EP/L01582X/1 | University of Southampton | Powrie, Professor W | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Infrastructure Systems | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015838/1 | University of Oxford | Dixon, Professor DJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Synthesis for Biology and Medicine | Good |
| EP/L015846/1 | University of York | Cowling, Professor PI | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence (IGGI) | Good |
| EP/L015854/1 | King's College London | Sollich, Professor P | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Non-Equilibrium Systems | Interview |
| EP/L015862/1 | University College London | Parkin, Professor IP | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Molecular Modelling and Materials Science | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015889/1 | University of Cambridge | Kaminski, Professor C | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Sensor Technologies and Application | Interview |
| EP/L015897/1 | University of Oxford | Trigoni, Dr N | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS) | Good |
| EP/L015900/1 | Imperial College London | Vandeperre, Dr LJM | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy: Building UK Civil Nuclear Skills for Global Markets. | Satisfactory |
| EP/L015927/1 | University of Liverpool | Mottershead, Professor J | EPSRC and ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantification and Management of Risk & Uncertainty in Complex Systems & Environments. | Good |
| EP/L015943/1 | University of Cambridge | Miller, Professor RJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Gas Turbine Aerodynamics | Good |
| EP/L01596X/1 | Heriot-Watt University | Reid, Professor D | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Applied Photonics | Good |
| EP/L015978/1 | University of Cambridge | Baumberg, Professor JJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable and Functional Nano | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016028/1 | University of Bristol | Weaver, Professor PM | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Composites for Innovation and Science | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016036/1 | University College London | Cassar, Professor M | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016044/1 | University of Oxford | Deane, Professor C | EPSRC and MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science | Good |
| EP/L016052/1 | University of Oxford | Jezzard, Professor P | EPSRC and MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Imaging | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016087/1 | University of Cambridge | Ferrari, Professor AC | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Graphene Technology | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016095/1 | University of Cambridge | Mair, Professor L | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016117/1 | University of Southampton | Hall, Professor Dame W | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Web Science Innovation | Interview |
| EP/L016141/1 | The University of Manchester | Crossley, Professor P | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Power Networks at The University of Manchester | Satisfactory |
| EP/L01615X/1 | University of Leeds | Jimack, Professor PK | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics at Leeds | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016176/1 | Newcastle University | Olivier, Professor P | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics | Good |
| EP/L016206/1 | University of Leicester | Dong, Professor H | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Innovative Metal Processing IMPaCT | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016214/1 | University of Exeter | Savic, Professor D | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Water Informatics: Science and Engineering (WISE) | Good |
| EP/L016230/1 | Imperial College London | Vassilicos, Professor JC | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics across Scales | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016257/1 | University of Sheffield | Ridgway, Professor K | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Machining Science | Interview |
| EP/L016273/1 | University of Sheffield | Wynne, Professor BP | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Metallic Systems - Challenges in Future Metals Manufacturing | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016281/1 | University of Sheffield | Armes, Professor SP | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Polymers, Soft Matter and Colloids | Interview |
| EP/L01629X/1 | University of Sheffield | Dwyer-Joyce, Professor R | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrated Tribology | Good |
| EP/L016303/1 | Cranfield University | Brennan, Professor FP | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Renewable Energy Marine Structures (REMS) | Good |
| EP/L01632X/1 | Queen Mary, University of London | Bryan-Kinns, Dr NJ | EPSRC and AHRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Media and Arts Technology | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016346/1 | University of Birmingham | Hannon, Professor MJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Physical Sciences for Health (Sci-Phy-4-Health) | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016354/1 | University of Bath | Davidson, Professor MG | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemical Technologies | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016362/1 | University of Nottingham | Snape, Professor CE | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Carbon Capture and Storage and Cleaner Fossil Energy | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016389/1 | University of Warwick | Kirwan, Professor KE | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing (EngD) | Good |
| EP/L016400/1 | University of Warwick | Jarvis, Professor S | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Urban Science and Progress | Good |
| EP/L016419/1 | University of St Andrews | Smith, Professor AD | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Critical Resource Catalysis - CRITICAT | Interview |
| EP/L016427/1 | University of Edinburgh | Sutton, Dr C | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Science | Good |
| EP/L016443/1 | Cardiff University | Hutchings, Professor G | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Catalysis | Interview |
| EP/L01646X/1 | University of Nottingham | Alexander, Professor C | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Therapeutics & Nanomedicines | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016478/1 | University College London | Ourselin, Professor S | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging | Good |
| EP/L016494/1 | University of Oxford | Papachristodoulou, Professor A | EPSRC and BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Synthetic Biology | Good |
| EP/L016508/1 | University of Edinburgh | Carbery, Professor A | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematical Analysis and its Applications:Maxwell Institute Graduate School in Analysis & Applications - MIGSAA | Good |
| EP/L016516/1 | University of Cambridge | Norris, Professor J | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Analysis (Cambridge Centre for Analysis) | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016524/1 | Imperial College London | Sauer, Professor B | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Controlled Quantum Dynamics | Interview |
| EP/L016540/1 | University of Bath | Hall, Professor PM | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Entertainment | Interview |
| EP/L016559/1 | University of Edinburgh | Bradley, Professor M | EPSRC and MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Optical Medical Imaging - Training the next generation of scientific entrepreneurs in healthcare tech. | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016567/1 | University of Cambridge | O'Neill, Professor W | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Ultra Precision | Interview |
| EP/L016613/1 | Imperial College London | Crisan, Professor D | EPSRC CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN THE MATHEMATICS OF PLANET EARTH AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON AND THE UNIVERSITY OF READING | Good |
| EP/L01663X/1 | University of York | Wilson, Professor H | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Science and Technology of Fusion Energy | Good |
| EP/L016648/1 | University of Bristol | McMaster, Dr TJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Functional Materials: The BCFN | Good |
| EP/L016656/1 | University of Bristol | Bull, Professor D | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Communications 2: : Training Tomorrow's Internet Innovators | Good |
| EP/L016680/1 | University of Strathclyde | Leithead, Professor WE | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Wind and Marine Energy Systems | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016702/1 | Imperial College London | Kim, Dr JS | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Plastic Electronic Materials | Interview |
| EP/L016710/1 | University of Oxford | Holmes, Professor C | EPSRC and MRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Next Generation Statistical Science: The Oxford-Warwick Statistics Programme. | Interview |
| EP/L016737/1 | Imperial College London | Schultz, Dr SR | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Neurotechnology for Life and Health | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016753/1 | University of Glasgow | Harvey, Professor A | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrative Sensing and Measurement | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016788/1 | University of Surrey | Dorey, Professor RA | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Micro- and NanoMaterials and Technologies | Satisfactory |
| EP/L016796/1 | Imperial College London | Luk, Professor W | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in High Performance Embedded and Distributed Systems | Satisfactory |
| EP/L01680X/1 | The University of Manchester | Withers, Professor P | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Materials for Demanding Environments | Interview |
| EP/L016818/1 | University of Sheffield | Hall, Professor PJ | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Storage and its Applications | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016826/1 | Imperial College London | Cheeseman, Professor C | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Civil Engineering | Good/Satisfactory |
| EP/L016834/1 | Heriot-Watt University | Lane, Professor D | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) in Edinburgh | Good |
| EP/L016869/1 | University of Bath | Natarajan, Dr S | EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Decarbonisation of the Built Environment (DBE) | Satisfactory |