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FIBE alumnus Deryck Chan won the second prize in the Institution of Civil Engineer's Emerging Engineers award in October 2020, for presenting his doctoral research project on basement heave in over-consolidated clay. His paper on centrifuge and numerical modelling of basement heave earned him a spot in the international...

In January 2020, I began a six-month research placement at the Alan Turing Institute in London, as part of the Alan Turing Institute Enrichment Scheme. The Enrichment scheme offers students currently enrolled on a doctoral programme at a UK university the opportunity to join the Alan Turing Institute for up to 12 months...

Jason Pelekis, final year PhD student from Cohort 1, visited the University of California at Berkeley as a Visiting Researcher for six months. During his stay, he was part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering where he worked closely with PEER experts. PEER is the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research...

Francesca O’Hanlon, 3 rd year FIBE CDT PhD student is also CEO of Blue Tap, a technology company that creates products to improve access to high quality drinking water in low resource settings. Blue Tap was first created in 2013 while Francesca was doing an Engineers Without Borders UK project to find a more reliable way...