High Temperature Research Centre

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At the University of Birmingham we are exceptionally proud of our partnership with Rolls Royce, our longest and most strategic partnership, not just for what we've delivered to date, but for what we will deliver in the future. We've just had our best ever results in the Research Excellence Framework and our partnership with Rolls Royce gave us one of our strongest impact cases. That means it helped us make a real difference in the world.

I enjoy leading our partnership as it delivers new technologies, new buildings, and develops careers. It's built on the commitment and dedication of two generations of Rolls-Royce and University researchers to produce safe, efficient aero engines. Birmingham's story is of the metallurgy of discs and blades. This unique and highly collaborative partnership has protected UK manufacturing jobs. It has consistently delivered world-class technology skills and scientific understanding that is directly applicable to our business. The expertise at Birmingham underpins our UK metallurgy base and the recruitment of PhDs from Birmingham has been prodigious.

Our partnership with Birmingham has the quality and commitment to deliver. Working inside the partnership has been great. It's built my confidence allowed me to do my own individual research during coverage restrictions and has provided me financial support throughout. Prizes, vacation scholarships, and my final year project have now led to me starting a PhD.

If you aspire to do research at scale and create impact then to lead HTRC is a privilege. Our outstanding designers, researchers, engineers and technicians collaborate to create step change advances in a crown jewel technology.

So studying and working within the Rolls-Royce and University partnership has given me the opportunity to work with all the process operations here at HTRC, this has then led me to validate a research cast part to get the mechanistic understanding of linking raw material variation to cast part dimension.

This unique and highly collaborative partnership has consistently delivered technology skills and scientific understanding that's been of direct relevance to our business. I'm so excited to continue working with the team; such a diverse and creative group that will help us prepare for the future.

Going forward, we will continue to protect manufacturing in the region, to contribute to gender equality and inclusion and to promote sustainable aviation goals.