Our Offshore Wind CDTs are the result of long term and extensive collaboration between the academic and key industry partners. We currently have over 40 industry partners, helping to ensure the training and experience provided across our CDTs address the broad range of challenges that the offshore wind industry faces.
Our Core Scholarships are aligned to industry requirements via our research themes, which were informed by a series of workshops with industry stakeholders and continue to evolve as new challenges emerge. A wide range of stakeholders representing both large and small companies and non-governmental organisations are involved in delivering training and offering placements, as well as providing industry supervision, ensuring that students are exposed to current offshore wind issues throughout their time at the CDT.
In addition, we work a wide range of partners to offer Industry Scholarships covering PhD projects that have been specifically defined by industry and partner stakeholders in close consultation with the Aura CDT. Students who undertake these Industry Scholarships will take the initial CDT training with the rest of their Cohort, but will continue in years 1-4 onto PhD research supported by their Industry sponsor.
Recruitment is currently closed for September 2025 entry. For updates on future recruitment, please visit our Scholarships page.
You can also visit our Research Projects page for more information on our exciting range of research, addressing offshore wind industry challenges.
Please contact auracdt@hull.ac.uk if you have any queries or would like to discuss any elements of the programme with the Aura CDT Team