Working with our collaborative and industrial partners, our research is providing impactful solutions to real world challenges – this focus on useful research is core to Strathclyde’s founding mission.

We have routes to PhD and doctoral awards that enable researchers to work on collaborative industry-linked research, based either within University facilities or within the partner organisation.

The broad research challenges are set by the partner organisation with a joint responsibility for the development of the research. Doctoral research projects with industrial or collaborative partners are typically funded, covering fees and living costs, and can be managed in a range of ways:

All doctoral students are co-supervised by Strathclyde academic staff and partner experts.

This approach benefits partner organisations by providing:

• enhancements in researcher performance, productivity and creativity
• changes to culture and operational practice

It benefits the doctoral researchers by providing:

• work-based/real world projects
• the highest level of expert academic and industrial supervision

It benefits Strathclyde by providing:

• high quality knowledge transfer venture
• shared expertise in industry-relevant professional development

Examples of our collaborative programmes

Strathclyde & GlaxoSmithKline

Find out more about our collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline.

Faculty of Engineering Industrial Doctorates

Find out more about our Faculty of Engineering Industrial Doctorates.