The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is supporting eight new Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT) in data-intensive science to address this skills requirement.
The centres include industrial partners – including household names like Aviva, EDF Energy and Hewlett Packard – and will offer comprehensive training in data-intensive science through cutting-edge research projects and a targeted academic training programme. This will be complemented by secondments to national and international partners.
STFC’s Executive Director of Programmes Professor Grahame Blair said: “This investment will not only bring on the next generation of much-needed data scientists with the skills and knowledge to become leaders in the field, it will be crucial in ensuring the UK research sector and the UK economy remains competitive on the world stage.”
The eight new centres will be based at 19 universities – the Universities of Cambridge, Cardiff/Bristol/Swansea, Durham, Edinburgh/Glasgow/St Andrews, Liverpool/Liverpool John Moores, Manchester /Lancaster/Sheffield, Southampton/Sussex/Portsmouth/Queen Mary/Open and UCL.
The bulk of the funding comes from the £90million allocated for 1,000 new PhD places across all the UK’s Research Councils, announced in the 2017 Spring Budget as part of the National Productivity Investment Fund.
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