Funding will help Brunel set up structural integrity centre
Brunel University has been awarded £15m of funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) as part of a new £60m initiative to establish a National Research Centre for Structural Integrity.
According to Brunel, the remaining £45m will come from industry.
Brunel’s lead co-partner for the new centre, which will be based in Cambridge, is technology engineering research and consultancy TWI.
Other partners will include companies from the rail, marine, aerospace and energy sectors as well as University College London (UCL) and the universities of Cambridge and Manchester.
Once established, the purpose-built national centre will house more than 100 postgraduate-taught and research students and more than 50 staff, providing facilities for engineering and materials research in the UK.
Teresa Waller, director of research support and development at Brunel and co-ordinator of the proposal to HEFCE, said: ‘This centre, one of only seven new bids to be awarded funding, will build a national research capability that will support economic growth by carrying out application-led research programmes with TWI and industry partners. It will also provide… postgraduate training opportunities to address the UK’s future skills requirements for engineers in this multidisciplinary field.’
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