Working with Postgraduates

Propose a project

• Internships

  Postgraduate research students are encouraged to take up internships for up to 6-months, either as part of their 4-year research programme, or by taking time out to work as an employee of an external organisation. For more information about promoting opportunities to PhD students, please contact industrial-maths@bristol.ac.uk
• Supervised PhD projects

  Our PhD students are highly skilled and trained in statistical methodologies and applied probability. The largest PhD programme in the School is Compass CDT: the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Computational Statistics and Data Science. We recruit to co-created and co-funded research projects that span a 4-year PhD. The research topic is offered by the industry partner and the supervision is shared between them and the academic supervisor.

Get involved in workshops and events

• Data workshops and ‘Datathon’ events

  The School of Mathematics works with partners to collaborate on ‘Datathon’ style workshops: a sprint-style event based on a real-world or commercial problem. This is a great way to discover how undergraduate and PhD students can use novel mathematical techniques to solve your organisations data problems. Workshops can be targeted at undergraduate or postgraduate abilities.
• Postgraduate seminars

  Our DataScience@work seminar invites speakers from industry to give PhD students an insight into what life is like as a data scientist in industry, with a networking session after the talk, offering the opportunity to engage with research students and academics on technical discussions.
• Invited speakers

  We develop training events for our postgraduate students that are tailored to their needs and the needs of their potential future employers. We welcome and encourage speakers on general topics such as communication, project management and equity, diversity and inclusion.

Sponsor a studentship

• Sponsor a studentship

  Our PhD students are highly skilled and trained in statistical methodologies and applied probability.  A list of research areas are listed on our website  (linked above), as well as students' research topics. We recruit to co-created and co-funded research projects that span a 4-year PhD. The research topic is offered by the industry partner and the supervision is shared between them and the academic supervisor.

Employ our graduates

• Working with wider University community via Careers Services

  The Employer Services team offer a range of chargeable services to engage with student community. Organisations can register with the Universities online jobs portal to promote internships, placements, and graduate jobs to the Universities student community. Advertisements on the jobs portal are currently free of charge.
• Tell us about your PhD level vacancies

  Please do contact us via LinkedIn or industrial-maths@bristol.ac.uk and we will share the opportunity with students who are nearing or have recently completed their programmes.