If you are funded by EPSRC, for example as part of a CDT (IDC, integrated Tribology, Carbon Capture, Resilient Decarbonised Systems, Polymers), then you should acknowledge your funders in any publications and in the acknowledgements section of your thesis.
Please include the following "This research was supported by EPSRC (grant xxxx) and **Industrial sponsor**". Add the name of the industrial sponsor if you have one.
If you are unsure of your grant number, or if you are funded by EPSRC, please get in touch with the PGR Support Officer
Open Access (OA) is free, online access to peer-reviewed scholarly material, with as few restrictions as possible on how the material can be reused, as long as the authors are properly acknowledged and cited.
You may find that your supervisors suggest that you make your journal articles open access. There are further details available here about what that entails: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/openaccess/what