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The Network

With four universities and over 50 project partners, the Sustainable Sound Futures CDT offers expertise and facilities in acoustics training at a scale and depth unprecedented anywhere in the world.

The Universities

The CDT programme is a partnership across four universities, each with leading research groups in Acoustics, who host PhD students and provide cohort based training..

  • University of Salford: Acoustic Innovation Institute
  • University of Bristol: Fluid and Aerodynamics
  • University of Sheffield: Mechanical: Aerospace and Civil Engineering and Speech and Hearing Research
  • University of Southampton: Institute of Sound and Vibration Research

Project Partners

Our CDT training programme and studentships are developed and supported by a wide range of industry partners contributing to a unique PhD training programme to reduce the harms caused by noise and poor acoustics, and forging a more positive sounding future.

We offer our industry partners multiple engagement opportunities.

  • ABL London Ltd
  • ACCURIS-ESDU
  • AWE
  • Acoustics and Noise Consultants
  • Association of Noise Consultants
  • Adler Pelzer Group
  • Alstom Transport
  • Arup Group Acoustics
  • B & W Group Ltd
  • Bentley Motors Ltd
  • CIBSE
  • Dowty Propellers
  • Delft University of Technology
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
  • Don & Low Ltd
  • Dyson Limited
  • Eindhoven University of Technology Architecture Design and Engineering
  • Farrat Isolevel
  • FiberLean Technologies
  • Funktion One Research Ltd
  • Ghent University Information Technology
  • Greenjets
  • HEAD acoustics
  • Hoare Lea
  • Holoplot GmbH
  • Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd
  • Jaguar Land Rover Limited
  • KEF Loudspeakers
  • Le Mans University
  • Leibniz University Hannover
  • Leonardo (UK)Mason UK Ltd
  • Matelys Research Lab
  • Microflown Technologies
  • Noise Consultants Limited
  • Noise Abatement Society
  • Politecnico di Milano
  • Qinetiq
  • Royal National Institute for Deaf people
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Ruhr University Bochum
  • Safran Landing Systems UK
  • Saint-Gobain Ecophon Ltd
  • Siemens Gamesa
  • Siemens Industry Software (SISW)
  • Siemens Process Systems Engineering Ltd
  • Sorama BV
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Thales UK Limited
  • The Institute of Acoustics
  • The UK Acoustics Network
  • Treble Technologies
  • UK Aerospace Research Consortium Network
  • UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
  • University of New South Wales
  • Vertical Aerospace Ltd