4-year UCL PhD studentship in: ‘Data-driven techniques for healthy, energy resilient housing’

UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering is seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship in: ‘Data-driven techniques for healthy, energy resilient housing’ The UK has an abundance of data on housing, energy use, and health. Cutting edge data science and housing stock models will be used to explore the complex inter-relationships between home energy efficiency, fuel …

4-year UCL PhD studentship in: ‘Developing an open access tool to generate synthetic occupant profiles from smart meter data for building stock modelling’

UCL’s Energy Institute is seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship in: ‘Developing an open access tool to generate synthetic occupant profiles from smart meter data for building stock modelling‘ This project aims to develop an open access tool to generate synthetic populations of building occupant profiles using smart meter data. The tool will enable the generation …

4-year UCL PhD studentship in: ‘Exploring Pathways for Decarbonising and Improving Resilience of NHS Healthcare Facilities in England’

UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, in partnership with The NHS, Catapult Energy Systems and The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), are seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship in ‘Exploring Pathways for Decarbonising and Improving Resilience of NHS Healthcare Facilities in England’ This project will research energy performance of existing healthcare facilities and explore challenges and opportunities …

4-year UCL PhD studentship in: ‘Well performing heat pumps for the mass market’

UCL’s Energy Institute is seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship on topic in ‘Well performing heat pumps for the mass market’ Heat pumps are a key decarbonisation technology for domestic buildings. Recent evidence has shown that domestic heat pumps perform worse than expected on average and that there a huge spread in performance. This research will …

ERBE Student-Led Conference 2023

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 10th annual ERBE Student-Led Conference taking place in London, UK, on the 18th May 2023 hosted by UCL (online option available). The conference is open to all PhD students and early career researchers. The theme is ‘Energy Resilience and the Built Environment’ as an acknowledgement of the diverse research present in this …

4-year UCL PhD studentship in: ‘An exploration of the system implications of the large scale deployment of hybrid heat pumps in UK housing’

UCL’s Energy Institute in partnership with Worcester Bosch are seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship on topic in ‘An exploration of the system implications of the large scale deployment of hybrid heat pumps in UK housing’ This project seeks to develop a strategic understanding of drivers of cost and performance of hybrid heat pumps, and of their impacts …

4-year UCL PhD studentship in: ‘Empirical assessment of health and wellbeing in low energy buildings’

UCL’s Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering in partnership with Architype are seeking applications for a fully funded Studentship on topic in ‘Empirical assessment of health and wellbeing in low energy buildings’ This project will research key relationships between occupant health and wellbeing and low energy buildings. Firstly, how active building monitoring can ensure ongoing performance-gap-free energy performance. Secondly, …

ERBE Student-Led Conference 2022 – a Huge Success

ERBE and LoLo staff and students gathered in Galway, Ireland, for the first in-person student-led conference in almost three years. The event, ‘Striking the Balance: Demand Reduction vs Supply Decarbonisation’ has been praised by attendees for it’s organisation and networking opportunities, as well as the excellent presentations from our student speakers. The conference was held in Galway, …