Research projects

Graphene NOWNANO is unique in that as a PhD student, you're able to select your research project during the first six months of the programme, rather than having your project pre-allocated prior to admission.

Being part of a CDT has been a huge help to my research. It gives you access to a multidisciplinary group of people all working in graphene research, which helps speed up research effort and encourages collaboration.

Eliott Higgins / CDT student based in the Department of Chemistry

A new and updated list of projects is offered every year by academics from all participating departments at The University of Manchester. The majority of the projects are interdisciplinary, involving collaborations between research groups in different academic departments, so you will normally have at least two supervisors.

You are provided with a project booklet that includes the project title, the project background and descriptive outline as well as the contact details of each supervisory team. A poster presentation session is arranged so that you can discuss each of the projects of interest to you in more detail directly with the project supervisor. We strongly recommend that you arrange a further meeting to visit the facilities and members of the wider supervisory team before making your final selection.

Browse a list of the research projects chosen by the 2020 cohort to give you an idea of the types of projects that you could undertake.