Recreate Law studentship

The overarching aim of RECREATE is to develop a circular economy for technology metals (TCMs), keeping the materials or components in the highest value form with the lowest environmental footprint. The project brings together three of the leading research institutes in the UK (Universities of Birmingham, Leicester and Edinburgh) who each specialise in different technologies for the extraction and re-use or recycling of TCMs. The project includes leading industrial and public-sector players and policy makers, all involved in the drive to create a circular economy for critical materials in the UK. The research is informed by a system-wide perspective derived from a deep understanding of the industrial challenges for recycling of these materials, and of the governance structures that drive a circular economy. This project will undertake low TRL transformative research to generate radical improvements in automated sorting, “short loop” recycling, pyrometallurgical and chemical processes with reduced environmental impact, biological processes for dilute effluents, and new materials and product-designs which make re-use or recycling easier. Ultimately the project is developing a toolbox of technologies which can sense, sort, separate and re-use or recycle a broad range of TCMs from a wide range of products. These new technologies will be benchmarked using life cycle and techno economic assessment and the legislative drivers for a circular economy will be explored.

Eligibility Criteria

• Undergraduate law degree
• The Law PhD scholar is expected to contribute by the development of a thesis within the ambit of the ReCreate programme

How to apply

To apply, you’ll need to send in:

• A CV (include the names and contact details of two referees at the end of the CV)
• Research proposal

These documents should be sent to: calscholarshipprizes@contacts.bham.ac.uk by 7 October 2024.

Please contact Professor Aleksandra Cavoski at a.cavoski@bham.ac.uk for further information and informal enquiries.