New students

Welcome to the Fusion Engineering CDT and congratulations on your PhD/EngD offer.

Home campus tasks

You are expected to arrange your accommodation at your home campus before w/c 28th Sept, and have attended your university registration event to collect your ID card and complete the registration steps - this will trigger your stipend payment.  If you have any problems please let us know.

You will also recieve your university email and ID - we need to know both of these important pieces of information - as we will use your local university email in our regular communications with you. Please send the details to Fran as soon as you have them.

You should also arrange to meet with your supervisor to discuss how you will arrange your supervisory meetings, arrange a desk, laptop or PC etc. You shouls attend a local orientation and induction events - and ensure you have completed all the local PGR on-boarding tasks.  If there is a clash bwtween a local induction event and a CDT event, please let us know - often Faculties run a second induction event for late arrivals - this might be a better option, as we only run the CDT activities once.

Partnership registration at the University of Manchester

All CDT students that are based at universities other than Manchester will be given ‘partnership registration’ at Manchester. You do not need to take any action - partnership registration will be arranged for you by the CDT. We use the details you give us in the Microsoft Form (linked below) to enrol you. All infromation is treated as highly confidential. Information will be used to ensure we can provide you with the best support and to start the registration process.

You will be asked, by the Admissions Team, to complete an online Right to Study check and a Criminal Conviction Declaration. These are mandatory for registration.

You will receive an @manchester email address, and a Manchester ID number once you have been enrolled by the Registration team and attended the Manchester Students Union to complete your registration - you will need to show personal ID, so please bring this with you to the induction.

Manchester University uses Outlook and Teams, so please add these apps to your phone and PC, and ensure you can access your @manchester email nd MyManchester.

Add your bank details to MyManchester (so that you can recieve the CDT Protium training bursary!)

The University of Manchester uses the ‘Duo’ app for its multi-factor authentication, so you should download this app to your phone.

You must complete our Onboarding MS Form by Friday 7th August: 2026 Cohort- Onboarding Information – Fill out form

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Week 1. Monday 28th Sep - Thursday 1st October - INDUCTION!

All students are expected to attend the Induction Week at the University of Manchester  - unless under exceptional circumstances. You must make us aware of any conflicting commitments immediately, if you think you will not be able to attend.  During the induction all main meals are provided, therefore we do not expect any expense claims for food or drinks. 

Travel & Accommodation - We will arrange your train travel to Manchester in September, as all students must use KeyTravel at the University of Macnehster to arrange all train tickets and hotel accommodation - this will require you to register with KeyTravel and create a full profile using your @manchester email.

Please note, as part of the University’s sustainable travel policy, the use of private vehicles will only be permitted when all other means of transport i.e trains, buses etc. are impractical. Please email us if you have any queries regarding this.

Please advise us in the Onboarding MS Form if you DO NOT require a hotel room for the Welcome Week period - we assume that all non-Manchester students will require accommodation, and that no Manchester students will require accommodation - but this is not always the case. 

Please take a browse around the site to read other inportant information.