Centre for Digital, Manufacturing & Design team
We advance digital manufacturing and design, transfer knowledge and technology, educate future experts, and engage industry stakeholders and partners.
Centre for Digital, Manufacturing & Design
We are providing industry with the technologies, materials, tools and skills to achieve a truly sustainable manufacturing sector.
View our funded PhDs with the EPSRC Green Industrial Futures Centre for Doctoral Training
Our research community
Find out about our academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the centre.
Key projects
Find out about the projects and grants we're currently working on.
CARMA: cellular agriculture manufacturing hub
The EPSRC-funded Cellular Agriculture Manufacturing Hub 'CARMA' is working to transform food production.
Centre for People-led Digitalisation
We are a team of academics and researchers based across universites in the UK.
The SPARK project
We are creating a digital platform to exploit the potential of spatial augmented reality to support collaborative creative thinking in the design process.
TRansdisciplinary Engineering Design (TREND)
Our EPSRC-funded research project (EP/R013179/1) aims to provide industry with the tools to enable effective transdisciplinary working.
Research stories
Our research brings together transdisciplinary expertise to deliver impact.
New polystyrene recycling process could be world’s first to be both economical and energy-efficient
Chemical method identified to tackle hard-to-recycle packaging material, cutting landfill waste
Health-threat ‘forever chemicals’ removed from water with 3D-printed ceramic ink
3D printing offers effective, scalable way to remove harmful chemicals
Bath joins UK consortium spearheading hydrogen fuel system development for aviation
HyFIVE group funded with £37 million to support zero-emission flight in the UK
University of Bath success with Future Leaders Fellowships
Two researchers at the University of Bath have been awarded prestigious Future Leaders Fellowships from UKRI for developing talented Early Career Researchers.
Culturing meat for sustainable nutrition
Growing meat instead of rearing animals to eat could radically change our diets. At Bath, we're leading on making it work at scale.
Printing a design revolution with additive manufacture
Using metal powder laser melting, our research on industrial 3D printing has helped to improve processes and develop new products with our industrial partners.
Study with us
Find out about our PhDs at Bath and how you could study yours in our research community
Faculty of Engineering & Design postgraduate research degrees
Join our collaborative and supportive research community, and start your journey to becoming an expert in your field.
About us
We want to be world leaders in cradle-to-cradle design and manufacturing. We’re achieving this through fundamental and applied research, transdisciplinary working, and technology development. Innovation, collaboration and industry 5.0 are central to our research and work because we believe this is what will lead to a sustainable, human-centric, and resilient design and manufacturing sector.
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