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Civil Engineering research and PhD programmes

Research activities within the civil engineering degree programmes at Brunel cover a wide ranging and diverse field of topics. Academic staff involved within these programmes investigate the management of urban waste, bio-based building products, and natural fibre composites in construction. They also develop an understanding of the behaviour of structures under extreme conditions such as fire, impact and seismic loadings and find solutions to coastal engineering problems such as coastal wave dynamics and coastal resilience against natural hazards such as storm surges, tsunamis, earthquakes, landslides.

Research opportunities for students 

Research students are welcomed to Brunel as valued members of our thriving, research-intensive community. Browse PhD opportunities below and find out about the funding available for students.

Research in Civil Engineering

Find people, projects, groups and publications in Civil Engineering and read more about related research to this area.  

Independent assessment of our research quality (REF 2021)

Research groups and centres

Systems and Environmental Engineering

Systems and Environmental Engineering

Water Engineering; Machine Learning and AI; Micro-Electronics and Electronics Security and Provenance; Digital Economy;· Circular Economy; Advance Process Monitoring and Control.

Fully-funded studentships

Our funded studentships become available at different times of the year. Please keep checking our page regularly to see the latest funded opportunities. We also advertise all our funded studentships as soon as they become available on the @BrunelResearch twitter account.

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