Studentships

Browse our frequently updated list of funded studentships open for applications. You may also be eligible to apply for other funding opportunities offered by the Doctoral College.

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Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences studentships

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

Lattice-based swarm attestation

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

Holistic investigation on the effective and safe use of Energy Piles (EPs) for Underground Thermal Energy Storage (UTES) in the UK and development of practical tools to guide its adoption

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

Smart design of sustainable polymer-based membrane materials for lithium recovery

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

Developing more efficient ICP-MS/MS-based methodologies for the analysis of key radionuclides in complex marine sample

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

Dark vessel identification with satellite data

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

Beyond Ultra-Faint: revealing dark-matter rich globular clusters in the local universe

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

Open quantum systems and boundary integrability

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

Compatible finite element discretisations of neural network informed stochastic geophysical flow models and their evaluation with Bayesian data assimilation

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

MOBIUS: MOnitoring Biomolecular Interactions Using Synthetic cells

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

Dynamical modelling of barred galaxies

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.

Mathematical theory for quasi-periodic connections in Hamiltonian systems: applications to space trajectory design and water waves

Funding information:

Fully funded studentship opportunities covering home university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year) – please check your project of interest for full funding offer details.