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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Predictive AI for high value reuse of reclaimed carbon fibre

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.

Performance-based circular structural design of steel-timber floor systems

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.

Microfluidic microbial electrosynthesis: mechanistic understanding and sustainability assessment for CO₂-to-chemicals conversion

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.

EPSRC-funded Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences studentships

Funding information:

Fully-funded studentship opportunities covering home and international 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. 

Physics-informed modelling and sensing algorithms for environment reconstruction in 6G ISAC networks

Funding information:

Fully-funded studentship opportunities covering home and international university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year). This studentship also comes with access to additional funding in the form of a Research Training Support Grant of £4,000 to fund consumables, conference attendance, etc.

Sustainable satellite design: mitigating optical reflectivity to protect astronomical observations

Funding information:

Fully-funded studentship opportunities covering home and international university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year).

Near-resonance-informed parallel methods for nonlinear oscillatory PDE models

Funding information:

Fully-funded studentship opportunities covering home and international university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year).

Edge AI for predictive health management of electrified vehicles

Funding information:

Fully-funded studentship opportunities covering home and international university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year).

High-throughput in-situ electrochemical platform for data-driven catalyst discovery

Funding information:

Fully-funded studentship opportunities covering home and international university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year).

Sun in, heat out: multi-sensor modelling of building solar gains and thermal losses for energy-efficient retrofit targeting

Funding information:

Fully-funded studentship opportunities covering home and international university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year).

Thermo-mechanical performance of stainless steel members and connections in transmission towers

Funding information:

Fully-funded studentship opportunities covering home and international university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year).

Fatigue analysis of riveted connections using advanced numerical models

Funding information:

Fully-funded studentship opportunities covering home and international university fees, additional research training, travel funds and UKRI standard rate (£21,805 for 2026/27 academic year).