PhD Studentships

Coventry University has been voted ‘Modern University of the Year’ three times running by The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide. Ranked in the UK’s top 15 (Guardian University Guide), we have a global reputation for high quality teaching and research with impact. Almost two-thirds (61%) of our research was judged ‘world...

Currently there is major uncertainty surrounding the contributions of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to future sea-level rise. Observations made beneath these ice sheets reveal significant basal meltwater generation, storage and evacuation, which can lubricate the bed causing rapid ice-flow. Unfortunately, the pattern and evolution of meltwater...

Faculty of Humanities, Leiden Institute for Area Studies is looking for a PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies (1.0 FTE) Vacancy number 18-200 Project description The successful candidate will carry out research on Buddhist scriptures. This is part of the ERC-funded project, “The Composition of Buddhist Scriptures: Open Philology”...

Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Heriot-Watt University is a world-class, research-led university with a drive to create and apply knowledge for economic and societal benefit. The REF 2014  assessed Heriot-Watt top in Scotland and 9th university in the UK for research impact, with...

A number of PhD scholarships will be offered at the Department of Physics (DTU Physics) and Department of Energy Conversion and Storage (DTU Energy) in connection with the newly established Catalysis Theory Center  and the section for Atomic Scale Modelling and Materials. The PhD scholarships will focus on: Density Functional Theory (DFT)...

Supervisor: Dr Kai Yang          Co-supervisor: Prof Steve Beeby Project description A three-year fully funded PhD studentship in electronic textiles (E-textiles) for healthcare is available at the Smart Electronic Materials and Systems Research Group (SEMS) group in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science...

Start Date: October 2018 No. of positions available: 1 Supervisor: Ji Zhou A machine learning (ML) or artificial intelligence (AI) PhD does not only open up some of the top-paying jobs in many industrial sectors, it also prepares you for the future challenges in our changing world. ML techniques allow you to generate rules that were learned...

Start Date: October 2018 No. of positions available: 1 Supervisor: Dr David Lea-Smith yanobacteria (oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria) are potential biotechnology platforms, since they can convert carbon dioxide into biofuels and industrial/pharmaceutical chemicals using energy derived from sunlight. This technology offers the opportunity to...

Fluid Structure Interactions Group Project Reference: CDT-SIS-527 This industry funded Ph.D. will investigate methods to perform geo-chemical and geo-mechanical seabed observations for mineral prospecting and infrastructure planning using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) with landing capabilities.   It is now routine for AUVs to...

This scholarship is funded by Swansea University. Subject areas:  Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Electrochemistry Start date:  October 2018 Energy sustainability is an emerging issue to date due to huge consumption of fossil-fuel sources (coal, natural gas, liquid fuel) in domestic and industrial sectors....