diff --git a/MantidQt/MantidWidgets/src/MWView.cpp b/MantidQt/MantidWidgets/src/MWView.cpp
index 6f5b6a81fbd1701f57d71c05552e9841aa8ab301..8f6a969a70b27f8c3949f2f12f78f901cedb129c 100644
--- a/MantidQt/MantidWidgets/src/MWView.cpp
+++ b/MantidQt/MantidWidgets/src/MWView.cpp
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ namespace MantidWidgets {
 MWView::MWView(QWidget *parent)
     : QWidget(parent),
       m_mdSettings(new MantidQt::API::MdSettings()),
-      m_workspace{nullptr},
+      m_workspace(),
       m_dimensions() {
   m_spect = new QwtPlotSpectrogram();
   m_data = new MantidQt::API::QwtRasterDataMD();