Thales UK

"As industrial sponsors, we find the Engineering Doctorate the most cost-effective model for achieving our combined research and specialist postgraduate recruitment requirements.

In addition, in our work with the Bristol Systems Centre we have got particular value from aligning the work of several of our sponsored EngDs under an umbrella project which is part of our strategic process improvement activity.

In this way the EngDs are able to provide considerable value to Thales during the period of their studies, meet a wide spectrum of people at all levels in the company, and they and their supervisors get access to real world data (both quantitative and qualitative) across a portfolio of several hundred projects."

Paul Davies
Head of Systems Research
Thales Research and Technology
Thales UK