To complete a postgraduate research programme, you’ll need to be dedicated and passionate about your area of study. But it’ll be well worth it. Being a doctoral student is challenging, yet incredibly rewarding. You are expected to carry out a programme of research in a particular area under the supervision of a primary supervisor and one or more co-supervisors.Fluids are essential to life and feature in many ways in a huge range of engineering and scientific applications, where their behaviour often poses fascinating fundamental and practical problems. Our research is inspired by industrial, scientific and societal challenges across many length scales from tiny inkjet droplets to wind turbines. A key feature of our approach is the complementary combination of experimental, computational and theoretical techniques to develop both a deep practical understanding and predictive tools allowing improvement and optimisation of systems. As well as being intrinsically fascinating, fluid mechanics is an important enabling science and hence much of our activity is interdisciplinary. We collaborate widely both with industrial partners, to improve processes, and with academic groups in other disciplines where understanding or creating fluid flows is necessary for advancing other basic research.