Construction Industry Doctorate Program (CIDP)

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The Office of NSW Building Commissioner (OBC) and University of Newcastle have established a unique doctoral research program that allows industry practitioners obtain a PhD in a field related to construction and developing your professional capabilities and enhancing your career prospects in the process.

Want to apply your research output to real-world problems facing the construction industry? Have you considered the Construction Industry Doctorate Program (CIPD)?

Meeting industry needs through research

The Construction Industry Doctorate Program (CIDP) is a vocational PhD program that matches leading construction industry organisations with world-class research expertise, facilities, and resources.

The Construction Industry Doctorate Program is good for industry – developing staff, solving big problems, and linking practitioners with world-class research. And it’s good for you – building skills and a career, delivering experience on issues of national or global significance, and giving you access to unparalleled data and support from UTS and the NSW OBC.

The Construction Industry Doctorate Program operates as part of the wider University of Newcastle’s Doctoral Program.

Want to know more?

You can:

  1. Download an online brochure here (PDF, 2.2MB).
  2. If you’re a potential candidate, or an organisation looking to support the program, email University of Newcastle’s Program Director, Professor Temitope Egbelakin and Program Coordinator Dr. Marcus Jefferies, details below.

Professor Temitope Egbelakin

Dr. Marcus Jefferies


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