DiveIn CDT

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⏰Countdown is on!
Apply by 31 Jan for a fully funded, 4-year PhD at @glasgow.ac.uk

🌍 Work on Global Challenges like Beyond Net Zero & Planetary Health
🔬 Advance Enabling Technologies from AI & Big Data to Quantum

✨ Shape your research. Drive real impact.
📌 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026
🔗 www.divein.org.uk

The Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow - as seen in the snow from Kelvingrove Park

🎄 Happy Holidays from DiveIn CDT!

Working on your application over the holidays? Visit our Apply page for tips, guidance, and useful information 👉 divein.org.uk/apply/

We look forward to welcoming you back in the new year ✨

DiveIn PGRs laughing at Annual Industry Showcase

Working on your DiveIn CDT application over the festive break? 🎄

Check out our cohort’s “how-to” videos for every applicant-statement question! www.divein.org.uk/apply/applic...

📢 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026
👉 Apply: www.divein.org.uk/apply

Group of DiveIn students standing on an indoor staircase. To the right, text reads: ‘DiveIn. Learn. Connect. Grow. Join a supportive research community and strong peer network. Apply Now! Deadline: 31st January.’ Logos of DiveIn, UKRI, EPSRC, and University of Glasgow appear at the bottom, along with a web address: divein.org.uk/apply.

🎓 Looking for a PhD with a difference?

✅Be part of a supportive cohort and strong peer network
✅Gain skills that go beyond your thesis
✅Shape the future of research with us

📢Applications are OPEN!
🗓 Deadline: 31 January

👉🎥 Watch our webinar to learn more and Apply NOW: www.divein.org.uk/apply/

Two individuals wearing white lab coats and blue gloves are standing in a laboratory setting, engaged in discussion near a complex experimental setup with wires, tubes, and scientific instruments. The background includes various equipment and a large metallic structure. On the right side of the image, text reads: “Online Applicant Webinar 26th November 2pm Register at divein.org.uk/apply” Below the text are logos for DiveIn, UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and the University of Glasgow.

🚨Last Call to Register!🚨

💻 Join our Online Applicant Webinar on Wednesday, 26th November at 2PM (UK time).

This is your chance to:
✅ Learn more about the DiveIn CDT programme
✅ Gain insights into what makes a strong candidate
✅ Meet current DiveIn CDT PhDs

Register now👉 www.divein.org.uk/apply

A great opportunity to come to Glasgow for an interdisciplinary PhD, benefitting from enhanced support and stipend, and a diverse cohort of students alongside you for an inclusive, team experience for your PhD! Please share widely, and spread the word with your undergraduate students.

Kieran Ronnie presenting

Stuart Grey presenting

Aleksandra Bavdaz presenting

Gavin Costigan presenting

👏Thanks to everyone who made the Annual Industry Showcase a success!

🐦 The Kingfishers presented their emerging research and partners shared real-world challenges

🤝A brilliant day of collaboration & innovation

➡️Read more: www.divein.org.uk/2025/11/17/divein-cdt-inaugural-annual-industry-showcase

Flyer advertising the DiveIn CDT. On the left, a picture of two students working with some scientific equipment that looks like it might be part of an engineering or physics laboratory. On the right, the logos of the University of Glasgow, EPSRC, and the DiveIn CDT, with the text "Applications now open: fully-funded 4-year PhD. Applicant Webinar, 26th November. More info at divein.org.uk"

The DiveIn centre for doctoral training in diversity-led, mission-driven research at the University of Glasgow is now accepting applications for its fully-funded 4-year PhD programme – more info at www.divein.org.uk

DiveIn Logo with the text DiveIn - connect - belong - thrive

💡Need tips for your DiveIn Application Statement?

🎥The Kingfishers – our current doctoral researchers – share practical video guides to help you through the process.

👉Watch the videos: www.divein.org.uk/apply/applic...

📅Applicant Webinar: 26 Nov, 2 PM (UK Time)
👉Register: www.divein.org.uk/apply/

Promotional graphic for DiveIn CDT PhD recruitment. The left side shows individuals working with technical equipment in a lab setting. The right side contains text: “Applications Now Open – Fully-funded 4 year PhD. Applicant Webinar – 26th November. More info at divein.org.uk.” Logos for University of Glasgow, UKRI Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and DiveIn CDT appear at the bottom.

📣 Applications Now Open!
🌊 Dive into mission-driven interdisciplinary #STEM research with a fully funded 4-year PhD starting Sept 2026
✅ Co-create your project
✅ Enhanced stipend
✅ Cohort-based experience
✅Partner network
📅 Applicant Webinar: Nov 26
👉More info & registration: www.divein.org.uk/apply

📌 Annual Industry Showcase Programme
🥗 Networking Lunch
🌍 External partners share real-world challenges
🧭 Doctoral researchers pitch research project plans
🧩 Hackathon-style sessions where teams co-create solutions to challenges
📢 Closing presentations
👉Register: www.divein.org.uk/2025/10/16/a...

Don't miss this opportunity to do a PhD with us.

Are you a company aiming to tackle interdisciplinary, mission-driven challenges? Join our event and start new collaborations with our researchers.

Congratulations @profdraper.bsky.social 👏

Promotional graphic announcing that applications to join the DiveIn CDT 2026 cohort open in November. Includes the message 'Get ready to DiveIn!' with logos of the University of Glasgow, UKRI EPSRC, and DiveIn. Website link: divein.org.uk

⌛Countdown is on!
Applications to join DiveIn in 2026 open in November
🥽Ready to DiveIn? Here's what awaits:
💷£4K enhanced stipend
🧠Co-create your PhD research project
🔗Interdisciplinary support
🌍Inclusive research culture
🤝Career-focused external partners
💡Express interest: www.divein.org.uk/apply/

Promotional banner for the DiveIn CDT Annual Industry Showcase, scheduled for 11th November 2025 from 12:00 to 16:30 at the Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, located at 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow G11 6EW

📣Join our Annual Industry Showcase – a dynamic event where innovation meets collaboration🤝

🔷 Discover emerging project ideas from PGRs
🔷 Shape proposal development
🔷 Explore opportunities to engage and network

📅 11 November 2025
📍 @uofgarc.bsky.social
👉Register: www.divein.org.uk/2025/10/16/a...

Great to see our team and doctoral researchers featured in this creative project at the ARC! 🎥❤️

They had the chance to explore the charm of analogue photography📸✨

🚀 DiveIn Induction is here!

We’re thrilled to welcome the very first cohort of DiveIn students as they begin their journey with us. 🎉

Here’s to the start of something World Changing — welcome, 2025 DiveIn Cohort! 🐧🏊

#DiveInCDT #ProsgraduateResearch #UofGCoSE

Offer Holders and DiveIn Team in from of Advanced Research Centre

We hosted our first ever Offer Holder Visit Day last Friday 🎉

Incredible to meet our inaugural PGR cohort — full of ideas, energy & a drive to tackle tomorrow’s big questions 🌍💡

Can’t wait to welcome them in Sept! 🎓🚀

#DiveInCDT #AdvancedResearchCentre

The DiveIn Team with Toby and Emma in front of the post wall from the workshop

Toby speaking to the participants of the workshop

🎉 Big thanks to everyone who joined our first CO3Academy workshop!

Led by Toby Scott (@knowinnovation) & Emma Skipper, we explored co-creation, team building & inclusive research cultures — all central to @DiveInCDT’s mission.

A brilliant day of connection & reflection! 🙌

Kicking off the DiveIn Co³ Academy with our Gather to Spark workshop💥🎓
@drcgl119.bsky.social welcomed supervisors to the launch of our new programme. It’s all about coming together to share ideas, shape the future of research, and build a more inclusive research culture 💡
Excited for what’s ahead!🌱

The DiveIn Team inside of HeyTea Cafe

The DiveIn Team holding Boba Tea drinks on Byres road

🎉 We did it! 🎉

Recruitment for our first-ever cohort is officially complete ✅

To celebrate this milestone, the team treated ourselves to some well-earned boba tea!

Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible - here’s to a successful launch year and to many more ahead! 🚀

Drone images of the Mazumdar-Shaw ARC Building and surrounding development, May 2023

🌍 This #EarthDay, the DiveIn CDT celebrates interdisciplinary innovation at the University of Glasgow's Advanced Research Centre (ARC) — where we’re committed to going Beyond Net Zero 🌱

🌐 Learn more about the ARC’s World Changing research: www.gla.ac.uk/research/arc...

A woman sits at a table with a laptop at a career fair. The table is part of the DiveIn CDT (Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity Led, Mission-Driven Research) exhibit, marked by a tall banner displaying the programme's logo and information. The banner highlights research areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Technologies, and Net Zero.

We are at the @bcswomenlovelace.bsky.social Colloquium today👋 Come say hi and find out more about DiveIn CDT and our exciting PhD opportunities💡Pop by for a chat! 👩‍💻 #WomenInComputing

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀

A huge congratulations to one of our directors, Professor Qammer Abbasi, CEng, FEAI, FRSA, FIET, on being elected as a Fellow of the royalsoced.bsky.social! 🎉

👏 Join us in celebrating this well-deserved achievement!

Happy #InternationalWomensDay👩‍🔬

Drone images of the Mazumdar-Shaw ARC Building and surrounding development, May 2023

We have just contacted all of our applicants to let them know that we have received their applications and inform them of the next steps 👩‍💻

If you have applied to our PhD programme but haven't received an email, please let us know at 📩divein-cdt@glasgow.ac.uk

Physics Engineering students work on an experiment

Thank you to everyone who applied to DiveIn 🏊‍♂️We are really looking forward to reviewing all of your applications!

Did you have any issues uploading your documents on Friday🤔? Please email us📩divein_cdt@glasgow.ac.uk to discuss how we can help.

Studying in the James McCune Smith Learning Hub

It's the final countdown ⏰ Have you done all of your last minute checks?
✏️ Are your personal details accurate?
✏️ Have you completed all the required forms?
✏️ Have you proofread your statement?
✏️ Is your visual data representation appropriately formatted 🐧?

Get in touch 📬 divein-cdt@glasgow.ac.uk

Physics Engineering students work on an experiment

In the run up to Friday🫣 here are some keys to a successful application:
🔑Good scientific communication
🔑Demonstration of motivation and resilience
🔑 Engagement with DiveIn's mission
For more details on creating a successful application, you can go to our YouTube🔗 www.youtube.com/@DiveIn_CDT