Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering
Find your place in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering (SAgE). Feel part of our pioneering postgraduate research community.
Working together to transform our world
Welcome to life as a researcher in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering.
You belong to a community of more than 1,000 postgraduate research students at SAgE.
Together, we’re making a big impact in many research areas – both established and up and coming.
Our research is often multidisciplinary, making SAgE an exciting place to collaborate.
Your faculty depends on you
As a postgraduate research student, you form the heart of our research community. Your work drives important – sometimes ground-breaking – discoveries. Research at SAgE simply couldn’t happen without you.
Opportunities to support your development
We’re committed to making sure you have an excellent experience, and find support to become a future research leader.
You can enjoy many development opportunities, including our faculty research development programme. This equips you with skills to:
- work across disciplines
- partner with business, government and external stakeholders
- increase the research and impact of your research
Aspire to be an entrepreneur?
We’re particularly committed to working with you to achieve this (where relevant) through our development programme. We’ll help you understand the value of your research in the world. We’ll also help you identify opportunities to commercialise your research outputs.
Look out for our flagship ACTION innovation and enterprise programme which supports you create value and impact from your research.
We’re committed to making sure you have an excellent experience, and find support to become a future research leader.
Multi-track postgraduate research conference
The annual SAgE Postgraduate Research conference for the academic year 2023/24 will take place between the 23th-25th January 2024. It will be held in the Frederick Douglass building on the Helix site.
The main theme of this year’s conference is ‘Career’ and we are expecting involvement from a range of interesting businesses and potential employers.
There will be a range of events running throughout the week, from PGR presentation and poster sessions to guest speakers and more social activities.
