Energy, Resilience and the Built Environment

Overview

Students will benefit from subject-specific and transferrable skills training courses, support from leading researchers, and access to a network of alumni and potential employers. 

The Energy, Resilience and the Built Environment programme at University College London (UCL) adopts a holistic, multi-disciplinary and international perspective, focusing on the interactions between energy supply systems and buildings, and the need to create healthy and productive home and work environments. 

You will be trained within thriving research institutes by skilled research teams, additionally supported by a management team with considerable experience of doctoral training.

The foundation of your career

The Energy Resilience and the Built Environment MPhil/PhD programme will not only support you in developing the technical skills needed to undertake research. Training will develop your understanding of the complexity and challenges of transforming this sector, requiring a multidisciplinary approach, and address the wider societal issues and ethical questions that a transformation of the sector will pose. 

The Energy Resilience and the Built Environment MPhil/PhD taught programme is complemented by our Energy Demand in Practice seminar series, run by CDT students these aim to explore career options, expand your network and help you understand the skills that employers look for.

Employability

The global transition to low carbon energy sources will require significant shifts to the interaction between people, buildings and energy systems. Significant new investment is expected, for example, in the UK the Clean Growth Strategy will support around £3.6bn of investment to upgrade around a million homes; spend £4.5bn to support innovative low carbon heat technologies in homes and businesses; and invest around £184m [including] two new £10m innovation programmes. 

Graduates of the closely related Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Demand have found employment in the UK Government in both the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, the International Energy Agency, the construction industry, consulting engineering and academia.