Civil Engineering (Water Resources)

Overview

Our School of Engineering has a successful research group that focuses on water resources. Our mission is to foster, promote and conduct research of international quality. This means that we attract high quality graduates and researchers and train them to international standards.Our research themes during Engineering (Water Resources) course offered at Newcastle University include:

• catchment hydrology and sustainable management

• flood risk and coastal management

• climate change impacts and adaptation

We supervise MPhil and PhD students in the following areas:

• flow and transport processes in surface and subsurface systems. This includes river mechanics and contaminant and sediment transport

• planning and control of hydraulic networks

• sustainable management of the water environment, including urban, rural agricultural and forestry environments

• climate change impact assessment, including flood risk

• environmental hazard assessment and mitigation, including landslide hazard

• integrated surface and groundwater pollution controls

• integrated assessment of coupled natural, technological and human systems

Our research has access to facilities and centres within the Newcastle Institute for Sustainability:

• Water Resource Systems Research Laboratory

• Centre for Earth Systems Engineering Research (CESER)

• Centre for Land Use and Water Resources Research (CLUWRR)