Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD Programs in United Kingdom? University of Essex, Colchester, England invites online application for multiple fully funded PhD positions in various research areas. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Funded PhD Position in Healthy Learning in a Digital Age: The Role of Educational Media in Early Development
Summary of PhD Position:
From the earliest months of life, children are surrounded by screens, sparking widespread concern about their potential harms. However, screen time is not uniform: while some content may be passive or distracting, other forms are carefully designed to engage infants and support learning. Yet surprisingly little research has tested whether infants experience educational media as socially engaging and whether they can effectively learn from it. This project addresses that gap by combining neuroscience, psychology, and educational technology to examine how infants respond to screen-based interactions and how parental co-use shapes these outcomes.
Application Deadline: 7 January 2026
2. Funded PhD Position in on-device monitoring and adaptation design for embedded systems
Summary of PhD Position:
The PhD project aims to develop a novel adaptive embedded hardware system, which equipped with a low-level hardware monitoring system together with a multi-level intelligent algorithms and diagnostics capabilities for adaptation of embedded software and hardware during run-time. The proposed solution will not only be providing the ability to reliably operate the embedded systems in complex practical environment with cost-effective manner, but also accurately assess the behaviours of any given device, enabling the repurposing of devices with reduced capabilities for new tasks, therefore, it will enable a drastic reduction in the embodied carbon of IoT devices, and the circular economy, as our technology will allow devices to be repurposed repeatedly throughout their useful life.
Application Deadline: 30 November 2025
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3. Funded PhD Position in Investigation of salt marsh restoration approaches
Summary of PhD Position:
Your research will study how the beneficial use of dredging materials (soft muds) can be used in restoring degraded salt marshes. This research is linked to a salt marsh restoration project being undertaken by Harwich Haven Authority to restore salt marshes in Copperas Bay, Essex, in collaboration with the RSPB, Essex Wildlife Trust, and other stakeholders. The long term goals are to develop approaches that could be used for large “seascape” scale habitat restoration. Trials in Copperas Bay will start in February 2026, and the period of study will align with investigating the year of the restoration project.