IDCORE Case Studies

The InDustrial CDT for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) is a collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde and Exeter: a Centre for Doctoral Training, that delivers a unique training model - one year of in-depth courses that prepare all the students to deliver a three-year company-based research project directly for the offshore renewable industry partners who sponsor them.

This page brings together a series of individual case studies of the students in recent IDCORE cohorts. It draws on interviews with each of the students but also with a wide cross-section of their academic and industrial sponsors.

Case study video playlist

You can also download our 2019/2020 Cohort and 2021 Cohort case studies in PDF format.

Katie Smith

Katie Smith profile photo

Nian Liu

Nian Liu profile photo

Demitri Moros

Demitri Moros profile

Jonathan Glasspool

Jonathan Glasspool headshot, weating red bubble jacket

Simon McLaughlin

headshot of Simon McLaughlin weating hard hat and high viz vest, looking towards camera

Tara Alkubaisi

Tara Alkubaisi profile

Ailsa McMillan

Ailsa McMillan profile photo

Susana Torres

photo of Susana Torres with sea and mountains in background

Bryn Townley

photo of Bryn Townley with loch and mountains in background

Tom Summers

photo of Tom Summers with sea and mountains in the background

Prokopis Vlachogiannis

photo of Prokopis Vlachogiannis with sea and mountains in the background

Ione Smith

photo of Ione Smith with sea and mountains in background

Eve Andrews

photo of Eve Andrews with loch and mountains in background

Hannah Mitchell

photo of Hannah Mitchell with loch and mountains in background

Tegan Foster

Portrait photo of Tegan Foster

Nicholas Kell

Nicholas Kell side portrait aboard a boat out at sea

Nadia Avanessova

Nadia Avanessova selfie with fellow IDCORE students and the sea in the background

Mujahid Elobeid

Mujahid Elobeid portrait photo with countryside and mountains in the background

Macauley Versey

Macauley Versey profile photograph

Luke Evans

Luke Evans portrait photo wearing coat and baseball cap, life jacket on a boat with waves and sea in the background

Lubica Slabon

Lubica Slabon profile photo

Jan Dillenburger-Keenan

Portrai photo of Jan Dillenburger-Keenan

Elie Ronge

Elie Ronge portrait photograph with sea and waves in the background

Calum Dunnett

Photograph of Calum Dunnett from waist up wearing check shirt with grass and trees in background

Andrew Russell

Andrew Russell on graduation day, headshot with green hedge in background

Ben Moverley-Smith

Ben sitting at a desk with computer looking back over his shoulder, smiling

Ajit Pillai

Ajit Pillai headshot

Alyona Naberezhnykh

Alyona Naberezhnykh headshot with sea mountains and blue sky in the background

Anita Nunes Leite

Anita Nunes Leite headshot taken within Flowave Ocean Research Facility

Callum Turnbull

Callum Turnbull profile