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The award from the Leverhulme Trust will fund four-year studentships, including three Master’s Plus PhDs for students from underrepresented minorities. An additional three studentships will be funded by the University.

Researchers will work within the newly created Leverhulme Trust Doctoral School in Nature Inspired Acoustics at Strathclyde. Biomimicry studies nature’s scientific principles and uses them as inspiration for designs or processes with the goal of solving human problems. The interdisciplinary research aims to pioneer discoveries in basic materials science and measurement sciences to develop technologies for creating complex biomimetic acoustic structures and to develop biomimetic sensors such as miniaturised, low-energy, insect-inspired antennae.

The research will further advance basic studies into how insects and other animals acoustically coordinate collective resources through vibrations, frequencies and intensities for efficient and socially intelligent energy management of built environments. Foresight and “futures” methods from business management and social science will be applied and developed to consider the School’s multifaceted acoustic technologies holistically and help researchers better anticipate both technological change in, and consumer demand for, nature-inspired devices within the built environment.