Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) offers academic programmes in all of the Scottish Funding Council funding groups but medicine, dentistry and teacher education. The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise gave the university an ‘internationally recognised’ research profile in a multitude of disciplines. Over 70% of the university’s research submissions were judged as being internationally recognised and 30% were deemed world-leading or of international excellence. In 2015, the QAA awarded the university its highest judgement for academic standards, whilst praising the university’s innovative academic approaches. In 2013, GCU was awarded the HR Excellence in Research Award by the European Commission, in recognition of its commitment to the development of researchers. This has been retained in 2015 following its two-year review. According to the Research Excellence Framework, GCU is the top modern university in Scotland by research power. The university’s social policy research impact at world-leading levels has ranked GCU as in the top 10 in the UK. The university has three university-wide institutes that engage in cross-disciplinary research: The Institute for Applied Health Research, which carries out research on a range of health-related topics; The Institute for Sustainable Engineering and Technology Research, which carries out research on a range of disciplines aimed at minimising impact on the environment; and The Institute for Society and Social Justice Research, which carries out research on the topics of citizenship and participation, crime and justice, and gender and economy.
Key persons
Key research facilities, infrastructure and equipment
GCU offers state-of-the-art research facilities to undertake this project. The following facilities would be provided to the RR at GCU:
- The RR will benefit from the strong research credentials of the Power and Renewable Energy Systems (PRES) research group at Glasgow Caledonian University. The PRES has good interdisciplinary links with other institutes and the industry.
- The RR will be provided with a modern working-station equipped with high spec computer and access to academic licenses of the required software.
- The RR will be enrolled as a regular PhD student in GCU, as part of which online and physical access to the Sir Alex Ferguson Library will be granted. This also ensures free access to IEEE Xplore, and other journals.
- The RR will also receive hands on training through established Researcher Development programs from the Graduate School at GCU.
Previous Involvement in Research and Training Programmes, including H2020 ITN
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Current Involvement in Research and Training Programmes, including H2020 ITN
Knowledge transfer partnership project on scenario based faster load flow algorithms for IPSA software, funded by UKRI.
Other relevant efforts
Publications:
- U. Nazir, B. C. Pal and R. A. Jabr, «Affinely Adjustable Robust Volt/VAr Control without Centralized Computations,» in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 656-667, Jan. 2023.
- U. Nazir, B. C. Pal and R. A. Jabr, «Approximate Load Models for Conic OPF Solvers,» in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 549-552, Jan. 2021.
- U. Nazir and B. C. Pal, «ADMM Based Distributed Load Flow for Radial Power Networks,» 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Systems Technology (POWERCON), pp. 1-6, 2020.
- U. Nazir, B. C. Pal and R. A. Jabr, «Distributed Solution of Stochastic Volt/VAr Control in Radial Networks,» in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 5314-5324, Nov. 2020.
- U. Nazir, N. Kumar, B. C. Pal, B. Singh and B. K. Panigrahi, «Enhanced SOGI Controller for Weak Grid Integrated Solar PV System,» in IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 1208-1217, Sept. 2020.