Sustainability, Energy and Environment
This theme encompasses the requirements of the new political and business agenda. As well as policy research, there is significant activity throughout the Faculty in this area on technology solutions for generation of resources and their efficient and cleaner use.
The Surrey Energy Network links energy-related research and teaching from across the University, enabling multidisciplinary activities. Within the Faculty energy technology development includes photovoltaic work by physicists and electronic engineers in The Advanced Technology Institute and “green radio” by communications engineers in the Centre for Communication Systems Research. Modelling and analysis is undertaken of high efficiency processes for bioenergy and petroleum refineries in Chemical Engineering, and of SmartGrids in CES.
Similarly, the University’s Water Network brings together civil engineers from Environmental Health Engineering, chemical engineers from Osmosis Research and sustainability analysis and policy from CES. The Network undertakes a broad and dispersed range of “water related” activities including: water quality and health, sustainable water, wastewater and desalination treatment processes.
The Surrey Space Centre produces satellites that contribute to Earth Observation and develop environmental data. The Department of Mathematics collaborates with CES on issues relating to climate change, and with CES, Computing and Sociology on the modelling and analysis of industrial ecosystems.
Postgraduate Research
See our graduate school pages for further information and how to apply.
Key topics
- Energy policy
- Climate policy
- Climate change
- Consumption
- Environmental protection
- Photovoltaics
- Energy efficient technologies
- Nuclear power
- Industrial ecology
- Geotechnics
- Earth observation
- Osmotic water purification
- Water supply and drainage