The Energy-Efficient Indoor Climate Control for Optimised Health (EICOH) Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training (SCDT) will provide three fully-funded PhD students to start in October 2023 with a world-class interdisciplinary research and training programme to bridge the net-zero design and construction skills gap whilst providing specialist skills in human-centric smart building design and digitisation for optimised health and resilience.

The increased risk of overheating, poor indoor air quality (IAQ) and inadequate ventilation in energy-efficient and/or net-zero buildings is now well evidenced, including the increasing gap between design expectations and energy performance, which is highly influenced by human behaviour. This CDT will train future innovators and leaders that can drive the transition to a healthy and energy-efficient built environment. The training will be led by experts in net-zero design, indoor air quality, building resilience, human behaviour and data analytics. Each project will be co-supervised by staff from different disciplines and all projects will involve industry partners and/or clinical advisors, to ensure that the research explored is based on an area of industry/clinical need.

Candidates are expected to proactively take ownership of their project and creatively contribute to shaping it. We are seeking future leaders to develop knowledge and expertise required to address future challenges in the following three areas:

1. Linking indoor pollutant exposure and climate conditions with physical and psychological health outcomes,

2. Technological solutions for energy-efficient indoor climate control,

3. Understanding and analysis of psychological and behavioural factors that affect exposure indoors.

For the audience of iddjobs.org, "exposure indoors" and "physical and psychological health outcomes" can be read as "in relation to infectious disease transmission".