WHY COME TO MY RESEARCH GROUP FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH? Back to home page
Coventry University is not in the Russel Group
of top research-led Universities, so why come to me as a researcher or a
client?
First note that the RAE does NOT measure how well we serve our research
clients and it does NOT assess the experience of researchers or the supervision
of research students. These are the key
points that you should consider when deciding which university to go to, and we
claim an excellent record in both. This
claim is based on the confidence shown by industry in funding my work and the
excellent feedback I get from my students.
Coventry University Civil Engineering Group has been established for over
45 years, initially as a leading Polytechnic and, for the last 25 years, as a
University. We retain our industrially
oriented culture and this is the basis of our expanding research
portfolio. Within the group there are
specialists in structures and other areas and I collaborate on many research
projects.
Coventry University is one of the biggest in
the UK but it is all located on a single compact campus. This enables me to work closely with
colleagues in other disciplines, such as chemistry.
There are relatively few research students in the building and excellent
research facilities. Thus I can offer
students good access both to the labs and to technical support.
While it has an attractive city centre Coventry has low housing and
living costs. This enables me to offer
competitive contract costs to my clients and low living costs to my students.